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Historical society has outdoor lecture series

The largest Facades+ event of the year returns to New York City next week on April 13 and 14. Featuring a full first day of in-person presentations and a Facades+ largest event of the year returns to New York City on April 13 and 14.

Eavesdropping flourished after WW II, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”

Manhattan: Re “The page is turned” (editorial, March 10): Public libraries are a bedrock of our democracy — sites of opportunity and learning, open to all, that store and share our collective histories, knowledge and creativity. As public institutions, our libraries need champions. No one will be a better champion for the Queens Public Library and its 66 neighborhood branches than Jimmy Van Bramer.

A small number of China’s feminist movement’s influential thinkers and organizers have relocated overseas, in search of an environment more hospitable to their activism. Today, though their numbers are relatively small, they have succeeded in cultivating a vibrant expatriate community of sympathizers and activists who are committed to raising awareness of assaults on Chinese

While most of Hollywood sucks up to China and laps up ChiCom money, one mammoth star has decided to take the opposite stand. A-lister Keanu Reeves has agreed to take part in an upcoming benefit [...]

After closing near the start of the pandemic, the Flushing library has no heat — or reopening date.

WOODSIDE, N.Y. – Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Assembly Members Brian Barnwell, Zohran Mamdani, and Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Council Members Tiffany Cabán and Julie Won, and Woodside on the Move announced a series of new pop-up Covid-19 testing sites for the week of January 3 throughout western Queens. These sites aim to ease long waits for testing services western Queens residents have experienced in recent weeks. “The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has created great new dem...

In many New York City neighborhoods, libraries are the only trusted resource for immigrants, teens, older adults, and those on the wrong side of the digital divide.

Monday marked the second hearing on libraries since they reopened in July.