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Monday Aug. 18, 2025

Reel Talks

8 am – 5 pm

Bryant Park Reel Talks: Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990

Bryant ParkManhattan

10 am

Baby Storytime (Registration Required)

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

58th Street Library

10:30 am

Lapsit Storytime: Baby and Me

Ages: 5 – 12
Books & Readings
Family

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)

11:30 am

Lapsit Storytime: Books and Babies!

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Todt Hill-Westerleigh LibraryStaten Island

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12:30 – 1:30 pm

Bryant Park Reading Room: Reel Talks

Bryant ParkManhattan

Tuesday Aug. 19

10 am

Toddler Storytime (Registration Required)

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

58th Street Library

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10:30 – 11:15 am

Young Sprouts Gardening

Rockefeller ParkManhattan

11 am – noon

Storytime: Ladybugs

Greenbelt Nature CenterStaten Island

11 am

Live Virtual Toddler Storytime

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

11 am

Little Movers Storytime

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Edenwald LibraryBronx

11 am

Urban Health Plan Baby Fun

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Hunts Point LibraryBronx

2:30 pm

Summer Adventure Kids Activity Series week 8

Ages: 3 – 12
Books & Readings
Family

St. George Library CenterStaten Island

4 pm

Family Storytime: Preschool Fun!

Ages: 3 – 12
Books & Readings
Family

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)

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7 – 9 pm

Brooklyn Books & Booze Reading Series

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Wednesday Aug. 20

10:30 am

Online Little Movers Storytime

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Hudson Park LibraryOnline

11:15 am

Little Movers Storytime: Cameras and Mirrors

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Mariners Harbor LibraryStaten Island

Noon – 3 pm

Senator Jessica Scarcella-Spanton’s Back To School Giveaway

Tappen ParkStaten Island

4 pm

Little Movers Storytime

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Battery Park City Library

4 pm

Family Storytime

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Todt Hill-Westerleigh LibraryStaten Island

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7:30 – 10 pm

Word Play – Free Poerty Slam @ Sugar Mouse

Sugar MouseEast Village

Thursday Aug. 21

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10 – 11 am

Stories in the Garden

Ages: 8 and under
Books & Readings
Classes
Family

10:30 am

Little Movers Storytime

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Sedgwick LibraryBronx

11 am

Emma Bowen's Project Healthy Launch

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Hamilton Grange Library

11 am

Little Movers Storytime!

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Hunts Point LibraryBronx

11:30 am

Toddler Time: Little Movers

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

53rd Street Library

11:30 am

Little Movers Storytime: Toddlers and Tales

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Todt Hill-Westerleigh LibraryStaten Island

3:30 pm

Campfire Story at Morrisania Library

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Morrisania LibraryBronx

4 pm

Everybody Reads! A group read aloud for emerging readers.

Ages: 5 – 12
Books & Readings
Family

Seward Park Library

Friday Aug. 22

3 pm

Multilingual Time

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Battery Park City Library

Saturday Aug. 23

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Buzzing Bee Hives

10:15 am

Sensory Friendly Storytime!

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Seward Park Library

10:30 am

Family Storytime: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Little Ones

Ages: 12 and under
Books & Readings
Family

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)

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