They stand looking at the camera, their faces neutral, their armbands reading “LIRR Jamaica.” These five men from Queens are draftees, waiting at the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road station for the train that will carry them to Camp Upton in Yaphank. It was 1918, the United…
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Grand Central Terminal will be celebrating its centennial all year long, and though the train station is located in Manhattan, there's a reason Queens buffs can share in the pride and excitement of this historic occasion: The iconic statues were made in our own Long Island City…
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As of last month, New York City has a country music station again. That’s great, but the country genre has a vast and rewarding back catalog that may be more appealing than some of the generic, classic rock-infused hits you’ll hear on the radio. Queens Library's catalog can…
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In honor of Groundhog Day, on February 2, young library visitors learned about groundhogs and their knack for predicting weather. Since neither New York City's Staten Island Chuck nor Pennsylvania's  Punxsutawney Phil saw its shadow, both predicted the arrival of an early spring…
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Queens Library houses more than a collection of works about African-American history. Our library has been shaped by, has gone to great lengths to document and continually celebrates the African-American experience.Did you know that one Queens Library, the one with the highest…
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