Events

Children ages 4 and older are invited to get creative and build while meeting other Lego fans! Lego books are available to borrow.

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active baby build important early learning skills.

Stories, songs and a craft for the whole family!

Explore our city with a curated librarian-led walking tour! Join branch staff from Ottendorfery Library for an in person walking tour! Learn more about the history and landmarks of this neighborhood and connect with community. In this one-hour walking tour where we will explore the rich history of the East Village and the place of libraries during a time of immense social change. Lower Manhattan evolved from neighborhoods of toney townhouses to tenements and factories and social confli…

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

This event will take place in person at Ottendorfer Library. Join the Ottendorfer Library as we make artists, cartoon shows, tv shows, animes, family pictures into a button. No Registration is Required! Open to Children (7-12 years old) and Teens/Young Adults (13-18)

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Join us in person for our film screenings of films made in Italy! Tuesday, May 7 @ 4:30 PM: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures. Directed by Anthony Minghella. Starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. 2h 19m. Other films in this series: Tuesday, May 21st @ 5pm: Under the Tu…

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active toddler build important early learning skills.

Join us for some new and classic picture books and a creative craft. Ages 3-6.

Children ages 4 and older are invited to get creative and build while meeting other Lego fans! Lego books are available to borrow.

Come to read or listen to others' inspired words. The Ottendorfer Library in collaboration with the National Writers Union https://nwu.org/ is hosting a virtual open mic every second Thursday of the month. It is time to gather together and share our original works. Writers from all genres are welcome. This virtual stage allows you to add video or music to your reading as long as you have permission from the copyright owner. Participants cannot sell their works during the event but can show book…

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active baby build important early learning skills.

Stories, songs and a craft for the whole family!

Are you unfamiliar with using a computer? Need to set up an account but don't know what to do first? Come to Ottendorfer Library for one on one help. We will instruct you on how to use a computer, how to set up a gmail account, offer quick tips on how to navigate the Internet, and answer any questions you may have.

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Bibliophiles unite! For May, we will be reading Calhoun’s memoir, Also a Poet. When Calhoun stumbled on the tapes of her father’s interviews with Frank O’Hara, she sets out to finish the book her father never had. The project became more complex than she realized and the story that results combines literary history and her bond with her father. Join us for a good discussion and great company. Copies are available at the front desk.

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active toddler build important early learning skills.

Join us for some new and classic picture books and a creative craft. Ages 3-6.

Children ages 4 and older are invited to get creative and build while meeting other Lego fans! Lego books are available to borrow.

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active baby build important early learning skills.

Are you unfamiliar with using a computer? Need to set up an account but don't know what to do first? Come to Ottendorfer Library for one on one help. We will instruct you on how to use a computer, how to set up a gmail account, offer quick tips on how to navigate the Internet, and answer any questions you may have.

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

This event will take place in person at Ottendorfer Library. Join the Ottendorfer Library as we make Perler Beads art. No Registration is Required! Open to Children (7-12 years old) and Teens/Young Adults (13-18)

Need help opening an email account? Want to get a handle on Google Suite or download an eBook on your tablet? Bring all of your technology questions for one-on-one assistance to our Open Lab. This takes place every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Please ring the doorbell for admittance.

Join us in person for our film screenings of films made in Italy! Tuesday, May 21st @ 5pm: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003). Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer, gets a divorce that leaves her with terminal writer's block and depression. Later, she decides to buy a house in Tuscany in order to change her life. Directed by Audrey Wells. Starring Diane Lane, Raoul Bova and Sandra Oh. 1h 53m. Other films in this series: Tuesday, May 7 @ 4:30 PM: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999…

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active toddler build important early learning skills.

Join us for some new and classic picture books and a creative craft. Ages 3-6.

The Bowery is one of NYC’s oldest and most architecturally diverse streets. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it has been a Native American footpath, a Dutch farm road and the site of NYC’s first free Black settlement as well as an early social hub for the working class, gangs, gays, and immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews and Germans. Stephen Crane once called it “the most interesting place in New York.” In this talk, David Mulkins, the President of the Bowery…

Children ages 4 and older are invited to get creative and build while meeting other Lego fans! Lego books are available to borrow.

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active baby build important early learning skills.

Join us in person for our film screenings of films made in Italy! Tuesday, May 28th @ 5pm: Enchanted April (1991). Four women in post World War I England decide to vacation in an Italian villa to escape the drudgery of their lives. Directed by Mike Newell. Starring Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson and Polly Walker. 1h 35m. Other films in this series: Tuesday, May 7 @ 4:30 PM: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to…

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active toddler build important early learning skills.

Join us for some new and classic picture books and a creative craft. Ages 3-6.

Children ages 4 and older are invited to get creative and build while meeting other Lego fans! Lego books are available to borrow.

Join us to hear stories, sing songs, and get those wiggles out as you help your active baby build important early learning skills.

Join us for a virtual book discussion. Have a book you've read recently and want to talk about? Email ahead of time and we'll make sure you have time to share with the group. Just want to listen to some book recommendations? That's great too, we'll share what we've been reading. This will happen through 'Google Meet'. If you'd like to participate or listen in, register here providing your email address for a link.

Bibliophiles unite! June’s selection is Vonnegut’s classic novel, Cat’s Cradle. A journalist interviews the children of the creator of the atomic bomb. It’s an apocalyptic tale of the planet’s ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes. Join us for a good conversation and great company. Copies are available at the front desk.

Come and celebrate the city’s oldest public library with East Village artist and poet Sally Young. Join Sally as she guides you through the process of constructing your own book sculpture. Participants will work on the back and front cover, which they can take home to fill in the pages with their own stories and poems. Materials are available on a first come, first served basis. Ottendorfer Library turns 140!