Promotional flyer for Central Library's 60th Anniversary Celebration on April 20, 2026.
On Monday, April 20, we will be celebrating 60 years of Central Library at its current location — 89-11 Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica!
Join us for an unforgettable day full of music, memories, arts and crafts, and so much more.
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Monday, April 20, is the 60th anniversary of QPL Central’s 1966 opening on Merrick Blvd! Sharing these 1960s 3D architectural models from the #QPLArchives, complete with tiny figures heading to the library✨
Visit Central on Monday, April 20, for a day of anniversary activities! @qplnyc.bsky.social
Zine/Memoir Workshop for teens with Jonell Joshua!
Apr 30, 3-6pm @ Ravenswood Library. Create & share!
A promotional graphic for QPL's Climate Ready Workshops, featuring a picture of a globe, and a landscape, split in half, one side parched and arid, the other green and healthy.
QPL's Climate Ready Workshops explore #ClimateChange and weather-related events, and how they impact Queens communities.
Learn More & Join Us!
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Explore our Climate Ready Resources.
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Promotional graphic for the QPL program Podcasting for Teens with Queens Memory Project.
#QPLTeens: Learn More & Join Us and @queensmemory.bsky.social!
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pril in Blissville 1930: Looking N on Bradley Ave at Van Dam St in Blissville, Queens. Now part of LIC, the area was named after 1830s landowner & and industrialist Neziah Bliss. Its borders are the LIE, Newtown Creek, and Calvary Cemetery.
📸: Frederick J. Weber
#QPLarchives #blissvillequeens
What's Happening at QPL in April?
Join Us at the Library for #EarthMonth, #NationalLibraryWeek, and #NationalPoetryMonth, and start your #QPL130 Trading Card collection today!
youtu.be/SKzFDEO2eJo
An empty barrel that has "Umbrella Bank" written on it in the Jamaica Long Island Railroad station. A sign above reads "Sorry.. Umbrella Bank temporarily overdrawn."
In April 1959, the LIRR launched a "borrow-and-return" umbrella service for commuters. This "Umbrella Bank" at Jamaica Station is looking a bit cleared out—must have been a rainy day! ☔️
#QPLArchives #LIRR
The QPL 130 logo (the QPL logo and the words "130 Years," with a topographic map of the borough of Queens inside the zero) and pictures of Carter G. Woodson, Cynthia Jenkins, Paul A. Vallone, Andrew Carnegie, Jeanne and Thomas Elmezzi, Langston Hughes, and Helen Marshall, all on a turquoise background.
One of our favorite resources is @queensmemory.bsky.social's Queens Name Explorer, an interactive map of people whose names grace public spaces in Queens.
Visit their special #QPL130 collection, "Celebrating the Supporters of Queens Public Library!"
nameexplorer.urbanarchive.org/pr/nameexplo...
A photo of Shea Stadium circa 1964 from the Postcard Collection in the QPL Archives.
It’s #Mets Home #OpeningDay!
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives.
Let's Go Mets!
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #LGM
@mets.com
@queensmemory.bsky.social
A storefront corner grocery in a brick building in the 1940s.
A storefront corner law office in a brick building in current times - the same building as previous photo.
Take a trip back to 1940s Astoria, Queens! This image from the #QPLarchives shows the Svea Olson Delicatessen & Grocery, once located at the corner of 43rd Street and 28th Avenue.
📸: Photo by Frederick J. Weber
#AstoriaQueens #1940s #ThenAndNow
From the QPL Archives: a black-and-white photograph of brothers Stephen and Lawrence Kappel, standing in a driveway in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, 1949. One is about to throw a baseball, the other holds a baseball bat on his shoulder.
⚾ From the #QPLArchives: brothers Stephen and Lawrence Kappel in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, 1949. ⚾
We hope you enjoy #MLB #OpeningNight and #OpeningDay!
Good Luck to the #Yankees, and Let's Go #Mets!
@mets.com
@queensmemory.bsky.social
Promotional flyer for QPL's NYC Open Data Week programs.
Page 2 of the Promotional flyer for QPL's NYC Open Data Week programs.
It's NYC #OpenDataWeek!
Celebrate with us at Queens Public Library and discover the ways that you can analyze, visualize, explain, and share the different types of #OpenData in our modern world.
Learn More: queenslibrary.org/search/calen...
The covers of the 15 eBooks that are part of QPL's 130th Anniversary eBook Special, on a turquoise background.
It's #QPLDay and #QPL130, and we want to celebrate this milestone with a special gift for our customers!
Check out 15 bestselling eBooks on OverDrive and @libbyapp.com, with instant access — no holds or waiting — until 11:59PM on Friday, March 20!
www.queenslibrary.org/spotlight/qp...
A large group of children stand outside the corner storefront of the Nelson Branch in Long Island City on East Ave (now 47-46 11th St).
The storefront location of the Astoria Branch at 14-01 Astoria Boulevard.
Two librarians in victorian dress at work inside the Steinway Branch, located at 42-01 23rd Avenue.
Happy Anniversary Queens Public Library! 🎂 From 3 branches in 1896 to 66 today, see the originals in 1910:
LIC: East Ave (11th St)
Astoria: 14-01 Astoria Blvd
Steinway: 42-01 23rd Ave
#QPL #QPLDay @qplnyc.bsky.social
PS: Flushing had the 1st free library -but was not in original charter! 📚
Promotional flyer for the 2026 Prom x QPL Prom Attire Collection Drive.
Reminder: You Can Donate Your Formal Wear at 14 QPL Locations for our Prom Attire Collection Drive through Friday, March 20!
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#QPLTeens
View across Sunnyside Yard along Hoffman Boulevard (Queens Boulevard) toward Queensboro Bridge in 1911. The Brewster Building, with its clock tower, is at center over in Long Island City.
📸 Photo: Eugene L. Armbruster
#QPLarchives #SunnysideYard
#LongIslandCity #SunnysideQueens
#QueensboroBridge
Digital Declutter: Organize How You Use It. Tues 3/17, 12-2pm. Learn backups & file naming. Join us: buff.ly/SopV72d
QPL's Women’s History Month 2026 logo: a row of multicolored silhouettes beneath a rising sun, on a beige background, with the words "Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future. QPL Celebrates Women’s History Month."
This #WomensHistoryMonth, join us as we honor women who are leading sustainability efforts across environmental, economic, educational, and social justice movements.
Enjoy our programs, book and movie lists, a @queensmemory.bsky.social resource, and more!
www.queenslibrary.org/spotlight/wo...
Celebrate Women’s History Month in Queens!✨
Exhibit: buff.ly/4h8m1sm
Workshop: buff.ly/WY8gLbj
Tour: buff.ly/1CU6Wof
Talk: buff.ly/DTSaQI4
Map: queenslib.org/explore
In six months, it’ll be July—and we’re already dreaming of Rockaway Beach! ⛱️Take a break from the cold with this vintage postcard of the crowds at Jacob Riis Park, circa 1940. Who else is ready for summer?
#QPLarchives #RockawayBeachQueens #VintagePostcards
Queens & Me Workshop: Join us 3/22, 2:30pm @ Culture Lab LIC for storytelling + data. Free sign up!
@culturelablic.bsky.social
@noyoutellit.bsky.social
From the QPL Archives: Joanna and her friend Janet dig after the Big Snow of 1947 in Sunnyside, Queens.
All Queens Public Library locations will be OPEN ON TUESDAY, February 24 for their regularly scheduled hours of service.
Please continue to check our website for any updates.
Thank you and stay safe.
A black-and-white photograph of the New York State Pavilion and the Unisphere, covered in snow during a winter storm, 1975.
⚠️❄️ REMINDER: All Queens Public Library locations are CLOSED ON MONDAY, February 23.
Please continue to check our website for any updates.
If you need to find an NYC Warming Center during this weather emergency, please call 311 or visit: on.nyc.gov/warmingcenters
Thank you and stay safe.
Jesse Jackson visits Rochdale Village, Queens!
1) In 1993 with Mayor David Dinkins, Councilmen Thomas White Jr. & Archie Spigner.
2) Campaigning for Gregory Meeks in February 1998.
RIP🤎
📸 Photo Aaron Slaughter, Rochdale Village Bulletin Collection.
#QPLarchives #RochdaleVillage
Color lithograph print of two female dancers on a stage with a horse with feathers on it's head. A male dancer is in the background.
Black and white photograph of a man with his white horse on a dirt lot on a city street. The horse is jumping on its hind legs. Apartment houses are in the background.
A fabric quilt square with a black felt horse with a red heart silhouetted against red and white floral embroidered fabric.
2026 is the Year of the Horse! 🐎 Here’s a look at some equine finds from the #QPLArchives
1.Dancers & Horse, Ruth Gikow W.P.A. Art Project ca. 1935
2.Charles w/ his horse in Astoria ca. 1916
3.Diana Huang’s Story Quilt Square 2018
#YearOfTheHorse #LunarNewYear2026
Kit Moszynski, Citi + QPL Fellow
Our six-month digitial decluttering series continues next Tuesday, 2/17, from 12 to 2pm with audiovisual archivist Marie Lascu.
February: Sort, Toss, Prioritize
Decide on a first pass organizing scheme to break apart your mass of digital stuff, then test drive it.
Sign up here: buff.ly/igQfXYI
Promotional graphic for the QPL program Senior Scientist Virtual Series: Environmental Issues in Queens and the Importance of Biodiversity with Dr. Monica Mowery.
Don't miss the next episode of our Senior Scientist Virtual Series!
Join us and @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social's Dr. Monica Mowery on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 2PM as we continue to explore ways to support biodiversity in Queens.
www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/sen...
Look Back: Feb '72 issue of Transitions Press, which featured this Art & Poetry supplement. Based out of the Langston Hughes Community Library, the local Corona/East Elmhurst newspaper focused on the Black community🤎
#QPLarchives
#BlackHistoryMonth
#CoronaQueens
#EastElmhurstQueens
