Events

Virtual Discussion. Third Thursday of every month 4:00pm - 5:00pm. Different topics every month. Share your tips for cooking !!! You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. The link will be sent to you by email approximately one day before the discussion. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet connection to join or dial in with phone. Sign up for NYPL Connec…

Emma Goldman arrived in New York City on August 15th, 1889 and would call the East Village home for part of her time here, years before J. Edgar Hoover labelled her the most dangerous woman in America. While in New York Goldman would develop her own political philosophy and skills as a powerful orator. Goldman also was an advocate for the emancipation of women, birth control and free speech. On this tour, we will walk to places Goldman frequented in her time and discuss her legacy. Bring your wa…

Come to read or listen to others' inspired words. The Ottendorfer Library in collaboration with the National Writers Union https://nwu.org/ is hosting an open mic the third Saturday day of every month. It is time to gather together and share our original works. Writers from all genres are welcome. This stage allows you to add video or music to your reading as long as you have permission from the copyright owner. Participants cannot sell their works during the event but can show book covers durin…

Are you unfamiliar with using a computer? Need to set up an account but don't know what to do first? Come to Ottendorfer Library for one on one help. We will instruct you on how to use a computer, how to set up a gmail account, offer quick tips on how to navigate the Internet, and answer any questions you may have.

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Join us for our screenings of recent films on Tuesday evenings! Sept. 24th @ 4:45pm: Memento (2000). An insurance investigator with short term memory loss tries to hunt down the man who killed his wife using notes and tattoos. Directed by Chris Nolan. Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss and Joe Pantoliano. 1h 56m. Other films in series: Oct. 1st @ 4:40pm: Chinatown (1974): A private eye hired to investigate an adulterer gets caught up in a web of deception. Directed by Roman Polanski…

Join us for our screenings of two 16mm films showcasing the history and culture of the East Village! Stay after the screenings to discuss how the neighborhood has changed. Heart of Loisaida (1979) This documentary shows residents of Lower East Side as they take over the apartment buildings their landlords have abandoned and chronicles their efforts to repair and revive the decaying tenements. Directed by Marci Reaven and Beni Matias. 1 reel. 30 minutes. The Godfather Comes to 6th St. (1975)…

Are you unfamiliar with using a computer? Need to set up an account but don't know what to do first? Come to Ottendorfer Library for one on one help. We will instruct you on how to use a computer, how to set up a gmail account, offer quick tips on how to navigate the Internet, and answer any questions you may have.

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Join us for our screenings of recent films on Tuesday evenings! Oct. 1st @ 4:40pm: Chinatown (1974): A private eye hired to investigate an adulterer gets caught up in a web of deception. Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston. 2h 10m. Other films in series: Sept. 24th @ 4:45pm: Memento (2000). An insurance investigator with short term memory loss tries to hunt down the man who killed his wife using notes and tattoos. Directed by Chris Nolan.…

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Bibliophiles unite! For September, we will discuss John Williams’ 1965 campus novel, Stoner. William Stoner was born to a dirt-poor family in Missouri. When he goes to the state school to study agriculture, he falls in love with literature instead. Join us for a good conversation and great company. Copies are available at the front desk.

Hello everyone, please feel free to join us for a virtual book discussion about Robert Kiyosaki's best-selling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Join us for our screenings of recent films on Tuesday evenings! Oct. 15th @ 4:45pm: To Live and Die in L.A.(1985 ). A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring William Petersen, Willem Dafoe and Jane Leeves. 1h 56m. Other films in series: Sept. 24th @ 4:45pm: Memento (2000). An insurance investigator with short term memory loss tries to hunt down the man who killed his wife using no…

Join us as we welcome New York Times-best selling author Ada Calhoun who will discuss her books St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street and Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father and Me. St. Marks is Dead: St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements, providing a backdrop for social and cultural revolutionaries from Leon Trotsky to Andy Warhol, the Ramones to the Beastie Boys, W.H. Auden to Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg to the…

Have you ever struggled with where to begin, or how to find a way in? Please join us for our in-person writing workshop series. In each of three sessions, we’ll look at three ways of approaching a true story. Each session will offer examples, strategies, and one or two writing prompts, with opportunities to share our work. This workshop series runs for three consecutive sessions. These sessions are related but not sequential, so you can feel free to participate in one, two, or all three. Keep…

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Join us as we welcome award-winning author Tyler Anbinder for this in-person discussion of his most recent book, Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York, and how it upends what we thought we knew about the Famine Irish in New York and beyond. In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children—and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the Un…

Join us for three films on 16 mm featuring one of NYC’s oldest and most architecturally diverse streets, the Bowery! The Bowery Men’s Shelter (1972): A portrait of the Men's Shelter on East 3rd Street in New York City. It is the only home for many alcoholics, drug addicts and ex-mental patients. Directed by Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter. 10 min. How do you like the Bowery? (1972): Men from the Bowery in New York are interviewed and speak candidly about how they think and feel. Directed by Dan H…

Have you ever struggled with where to begin, or how to find a way in? Please join us for our in-person writing workshop series. In each of three sessions, we’ll look at three ways of approaching a true story. Each session will offer examples, strategies, and one or two writing prompts, with opportunities to share our work. This workshop series runs for three consecutive sessions. These sessions are related but not sequential, so you can feel free to participate in one, two, or all three. Keep…

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Have you ever struggled with where to begin, or how to find a way in? Please join us for our in-person writing workshop series. In each of three sessions, we’ll look at three ways of approaching a true story. Each session will offer examples, strategies, and one or two writing prompts, with opportunities to share our work. This workshop series runs for three consecutive sessions. These sessions are related but not sequential, so you can feel free to participate in one, two, or all three. Keep…

Bibliophiles unite! November's selection is Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson. Set in London during the 1920’s, this novel explores the dark underbelly of Soho night life. Nellie Coker is an ambitious and ruthless nightclub owner whose success has given her many enemies. Copies are available at the front desk. Join us for a good discussion and great company!

Bibliophiles unite! For December, we will read Baldwin’s classic novel, If Beale Street Could Talk. Tish and Fonny are in love and getting married, until Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. With their families behind them, they must fight to clear his name. Copies are available at the front desk. Join us for a good discussion and great company!