The main entrance to the New York Public Library (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

Like fine wine, the best books age exceedingly well. But you can’t just walk into a wine cellar, flash your membership card and exit with your choice of vintage (on loan). Better to stick with books — ...

At the New York Public Library, two exhibitions add little to a very public writer’s mystique. But our critic dived deeper. By Walker Mimms Among the 20 artifacts at the 42nd Street Public Library ...

There is a lot abuzz at the New York Public Library’s main branch at 42nd Street, including a new exhibition of rare items from J.D. Salinger’s personal collection and many renovations underway. Today ...

“Murder at the 42nd Street Library” by Con Lehane; Minotaur (320 pages, $25.99) The beautiful and iconic New York Public Library on 42nd Street in Manhattan — with its stone lions in front, multiple ...

Today, the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasurers will open at Gottesman Hall, a 6,400-square-foot marble exhibition space inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the ...

Patience and Fortitude, the marble lions outside of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, don face masks as the city and the library system... For the first time, the familiar marble faces ...

The demise of the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan is the end of a Bloomberg-era castle in the sky. The main entrance to the New York Public Library (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) When the ...