53rd Street Library NYPL

04/30/2025

Please join us at the 53rd Street Library on Thursday, May 8, for an evening of short plays. Voices of Ukraine is presented by the Voyage Theater Company. This event will take place from 7-9pm. Please register in advance by clicking the link below:

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12/28/2024

Hey everyone! Due to a staffing shortage our Lower Level will be closed until 1PM today. That means the Children’s Room and the Teen Zone too.

08/02/2024

To celebrate what would have been James Baldwin's 100th birthday, 53rd Street Library is hosting a conversation between Gabrielle Bellot, staff writer for Literary Hub, and Harlem cultural historian Lana Turner. The first 100 registered attendees with receive a free copy of a James Baldwin book! Register here:

This event will take place *in person* at the 53rd Street Library. Join us in celebration of James Baldwin’s 100th birthday with an exclusive conversation between Gabrielle Bellot, staff writer for Literary Hub, and Harlem cultural historian Lana Turner. Together, they will unpack the author's his...

02/29/2024

Join us next Friday, March 8 at 2pm for a viewing of The Holdovers (2023) in our Community Room!

01/31/2024

Teens! Come join us this Friday at 5pm for Pizza and a Movie Night.

01/31/2024

We have a new community showcase up on the street level of the library! Come by to take a look at Joe Militello's latest works of art. He is a Brooklyn-born artist and early participant in the burgeoning East Village and Williamsburg art scenes of the 1980s. Joe has done performance at ABC No Rio on the Lower East Side, and has worked in painting, drawing collage and assemblage and his work has been written up in the NY Times. His current work combines the artist's various interests in science, numerology, black holes, dark matter, and baseball.

01/23/2024

Join us here at 53rd Street Library on Friday, January 26th at 2pm for a screening of Oppenheimer (2023) directed by Christopher Nolan. No registration necessary, just come on by the Community Room!

12/08/2023

We will be showing Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain on Friday, January 5th at 2pm in our Community Room. The film follows the life and career of chef, author, and travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain, who died by su***de on June 8, 2018, at the age of 61 while on location in France for his CNN show Parts Unknown. The documentary features interviews with David Chang and Éric Ripert, as well as members of the production crew from Parts Unknown.

11/07/2023

We show movies every Friday at 2pm but this one is extra exciting. Come join us next Friday, November 17 to watch Barbie (2023) directed by Greta Gerwig! No registration required. https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2023/11/17/movies-53rd-barbie-2023

10/18/2023

Love about & the ? Join our virtual teen comics chat tomorrow, 4 p.m. with the 53rd Street Library NYPL & Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library. RSVP via tinyurl.com/Oct2023comicschat.

08/22/2023

Add another podcast to your list! We might be a bit biased, but we think this one is especially enlightening.

The former head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund delivers the annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture.

08/09/2023

Comment down below which book you are reading today!

What are you reading now? On , curl up with a good book and stay awhile.

Actress Lynn Redgrave in a scene from the Broadway play "Sweet Sue." 1986. https://on.nypl.org/47nwjzP