To celebrate the holiday, Queens Library at Woodside invited children and their caregivers to make their own Valentine’s Day roses out of recycled materials, crepe paper and straws. Using an upward wrapping technique participants made roses like the lovely ones pictured here.…
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February 18 marks the “birthday” of Pluto, a celestial body that has given astronomers great difficulty over the past 83 years.A nameless mystery planet emerged as a theory in the 19th century, after astronomers discovered the planet Neptune, based on irregularities in the orbit…
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Caldecott Winner and HonorsQueens Library proudly carries all of the Caldecott Winner and Honor titles:2013 Caldecott Medal winner: This Is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen2013 Caldecott Honor: Creepy Carrots!, illustrated by Peter Brown, written by Aaron…
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They stand looking at the camera, their faces neutral, their armbands reading “LIRR Jamaica.” These five men from Queens are draftees, waiting at the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road station for the train that will carry them to Camp Upton in Yaphank. It was 1918, the United…
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Grand Central Terminal will be celebrating its centennial all year long, and though the train station is located in Manhattan, there's a reason Queens buffs can share in the pride and excitement of this historic occasion: The iconic statues were made in our own Long Island City…
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