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A community-engaged archiving program and oral history collection supported by Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY More Info Here: https://linktr.ee/queensmemory Subscribe to the Queens Memory Monthly Newsletter: https://bit.ly/40VRuXh
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
@queensmemory.bsky.social @culturelablic.bsky.social
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A heart made of photos of our customers having a great time at the Library, and the words "Queens Public Library Celebrates National Library Lovers' Month Through February 28."
This #NationalLibraryLoversMonth, we’re asking you to share your favorite memory of Queens Public Library!
Tell us your story, and you could win a cash prize!
Enter our #LibraryLoversMonth Sweepstakes today:
queenslib.org/LibraryLover...
Farewell to the Jamaica Colosseum Mall, our neighbor across the street from Central Library. #QPLHipHop
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Join us and our NYC community partners for Heat Stories: Memory, Place and a Changing Climate, in conjunction with the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University.
Where: 56-27 2nd St Queens, NY
When: Thursday, Feb 26 from 6 pm to 8 pm EST
Free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/heat-stori...
A group of men with a horse-drawn stand on the ice of a frozen Flushing Bay in 1918.
A group of police and officials stand with a dynamite detonator on a frozen Flushing Bay in 1918.
Talk about a deep freeze! ❄️ In January 1918, Flushing Bay froze so solid it blocked vital coal deliveries to Queens. Officials tried everything to clear the ice, from horse-drawn scrapers - to unsuccessful attempts with dynamite!🧨
📷: #QPLarchives Borough President of Queens Collection
#FlushingBay
We had to postpone it for a day because of the storm, but it's still Space Week at QPL!
Join us for space-themed science and art programs for kids and teens, check out our special booklists and resources, and much more.
queenslibrary.org/about-us/new...
One-story storefronts line a city street covered in snow in the 1960s
People and cars make their way carefully along a snow covered city street that goes under a railroad bridge in Flushing Queens.
Snow is coming! ❄️These 1961 photos capture a snowy Main St. in Flushing. 1) Laurel Deli, once located across from
@qplnyc.bsky.social Flushing branch near 41st Rd 2) the LIRR bridge over Main St. ☃️ Stay warm out there!
📸 donated by Carole Josepowitz
#QPLarchives #FlushingQueens #SnowNYC #1960s
A storefront window with display of photos showing Dr. Martin Luther King working in communities, giving speeches, and at protests. The window sign declares: Happy Birthday Dr. King.
Happy Birthday, Dr. King! This 1980s photo shows a window display honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the original storefront of the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Queens, NY. 🕊️
#QPLarchives
#MLKDay #BlackHistory
#CoronaQueens #EastElmhurst
@qplnyc.bsky.social
A silhouette of Martin Luther King, Jr., with the words "Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr." on a red background.
Join QPL as we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with special programs, recommended books for kids, teens and adults, a resource from @queensmemory.bsky.social, and more.
Visit our blog to Learn More.
www.queenslibrary.org/about-us/new...
black and white photo of a crowd of protesters and a policeman on the stairs at the Far Rockaway Mott Avenue Station.
#OnThisDay: January 8, 1970! Queens residents at the IND Far Rockaway–Mott Ave station protest subway fare hikes 🚇 Do you remember what the fare was back then? Let us know below! 👇
📷: Long Island Daily Press Collection #QPLarchives
#FarRockaway #INDSubwayline
Photo shows librarians in 1940s cataloging by hand with index cards and and card catalog drawers. The room is crowded and there are 7 librarians working.
Photo shows librarians in 1940s processing by hand with typewriters and amongst floor to ceiling bookshelves and book carts. The room is crowded and there are 3 librarians working.
Look back at January 2, 1940! 📚 These #QPLArchives photos show staff at the old Central Branch busy in the Book Order & Cataloging Depts.
Here’s to a 2026 filled with visits to @qplnyc.bsky.social!
Post: Kit Moszynski, Citi + QPL Fellow, Fall 2025
#LibraryCataloging #LibraryLove
The words "Queens Public Library Holiday Schedule"; and calendar pages reading Wed, Dec. 24, 10am - 1pm; Thur, Dec. 25, Closed; Wed, Dec. 31, 10am - 1pm; and Thur, Jan. 1, Closed, on a yellow background.
Here are Queens Public Library's Holiday Hours for the end of December 2025.
Learn More: queenslibrary.org/special-aler...
#OnThisDay in December 1939: ❄️ Children peek into the former Bayside, Queens storefront QPL branch on Bell Boulevard. The library is still the best place to find a winter escape. 📚✨
#QPLarchives #BaysideQueens #1930s @qplnyc.bsky.social
P.S. This section of CPB was once Lawrence Street - On December 29, 1969, Mayor John Lindsay signed into law the renaming of Lawrence Street, College Point Causeway, and 122nd Street collectively as College Point Boulevard.
A black and white photograph from 1938 shows a sparsely populated College Point Boulevard under construction, featuring workers on the street and a few large houses lining the road.
A color street view of College Point Boulevard in 2025, showing large commercial stores, gas stations, and heavy traffic.
#TBT College Point Boulevard in 1938 ⭐This photo shows the view looking north from Fowler Avenue in Flushing, Queens!
#QPLArchives
#CollegePointBlvd #FlushingQueensNY
#RoadWorkNYC
Post by Kit Moszynski, Citi + QPL Fellow, Fall 2025
