Posted in General | April 26, 2014
Spring is in full swing! And the Greening Queens library initiative is going to help you get your gardens statuettes right. Join us for one of our seed(ling) swaps happening at four different branches in the next couple weeks. Broadway branch on April 28 from 5pm-6:15pm http://…
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Posted in News | December 20, 2013
The community compost collections at Queens Library have been wildly successful. We have partnered with BIG! Compost and Smiling Hogshead Ranch to provide the communities we serve with weekly compost collections at four different Queens Library locations in Western Queens. Now…
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Posted in Music | June 3, 2013
Congratulations to Cyndi Lauper, who won “Best Original Score" at this year's Tony Awards. Lauper is no stranger to the limelight — or to Queens. She shot to stardom in the 1980s with her string of pop hits and she most recently wrote the score to the hit Broadway musical Kinky…
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Posted in Music | December 12, 2012
2012 marked the 70th anniversary of the classic 1942 film Casablanca. We hope you made it out to one of Queens Library’s free screenings of the movie. You may know that recently, Sotheby’s  auctioned off the piano used by the character Sam (Dooley Wilson) to play the movie’s…
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