The New York Society Library, the oldest in the city, was founded in 1754 by the New York Society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city to prosper. A subscription library, it now contains nearly three hundred thousand volumes -- the result of the tastes of its members over almost the last quarter millennium.

NYSL: 2020-03-04 George Packer, Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
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NYSL: 2020-03-04 George Packer, Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
NYSL:2020-02-20 Michael Shnayerson, Boom - Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
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NYSL:2020-02-20 Michael Shnayerson, Boom - Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
NYSL: 2020-02-05 Meet the Publishing Pros Mike Shatzkin
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NYSL: 2020-02-05 Meet the Publishing Pros Mike Shatzkin
NYSL: 2020-01-21 Adrienne Brodeur with Lauren Wein - Wild Game
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NYSL: 2020-01-21 Adrienne Brodeur with Lauren Wein - Wild Game
NYSL: 2019-10-28 Katia Lysy, The Life and Legacy of Iris Origo
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NYSL: 2019-10-28 Katia Lysy, The Life and Legacy of Iris Origo
NYSL: 2019-11-14 Meg Wolitzer and Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish
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NYSL: 2019-11-14 Meg Wolitzer and Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish
NYSL: 2019-11-12 Giles Milton, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
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NYSL: 2019-11-12 Giles Milton, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
NYSL: 2019-11-19 Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land
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NYSL: 2019-11-19 Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land
NYSL: Conversation-Amy Hempel, Sing to It New Stories and Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
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NYSL: Conversation-Amy Hempel, Sing to It New Stories and Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
NYSL: 2019-12-07 Wild Things & the Four Tendencies
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NYSL: 2019-12-07 Wild Things & the Four Tendencies
NYSL: Uptown at Night - An Evening of Comedy and Humorous Storytelling
1:36:19
NYSL: Uptown at Night - An Evening of Comedy and Humorous Storytelling
NYSL: 2019-09-12 Richard Panek, The Trouble with Gravity
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NYSL: 2019-09-12 Richard Panek, The Trouble with Gravity
NYSL: John Burnham Schwartz
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NYSL: John Burnham Schwartz
NYSL: 2019-04-16 Uptown at Night
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NYSL: 2019-04-16 Uptown at Night
NYSL: 2019-04-2 Suzannah Lessard with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
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NYSL: 2019-04-2 Suzannah Lessard with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
NYSL: 2018-12-11 Gretchen Rubin and Bruce Handy, Wild Things & Four Tendencies
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NYSL: 2018-12-11 Gretchen Rubin and Bruce Handy, Wild Things & Four Tendencies
NYSL: 2019-03-13 Albert Einstein - Rock Star with Stephen Rosen
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NYSL: 2019-03-13 Albert Einstein - Rock Star with Stephen Rosen
NYSL: 2019-03-11 Sally Roesch Wagner, The Women's Suffrage Movement
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NYSL: 2019-03-11 Sally Roesch Wagner, The Women's Suffrage Movement
NYSL: Elaine Pagels, Why Religion
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NYSL: Elaine Pagels, Why Religion
NYSL: Madeline Miller, Circe
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NYSL: Madeline Miller, Circe
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NYSL: 01-10 Meet the Publishing Pros
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NYSL: 01-10 Meet the Publishing Pros
NYSL: 12-13 Climate-Change Debate
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NYSL: 12-13 Climate-Change Debate
NYSL: Emily Wilson, The Odyssey
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NYSL: Emily Wilson, The Odyssey
NYSL: Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, with Lisa Lucas
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NYSL: Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, with Lisa Lucas
NYSL: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught
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NYSL: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught
NYSL: Jane Sherron De Hart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life.
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NYSL: Jane Sherron De Hart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life.
NYSL: A Swinging '60s Evening
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NYSL: A Swinging '60s Evening
NYSL: Uptown at Night, Fall 2018
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NYSL: Uptown at Night, Fall 2018
NYSL: Conversation: Susan Buckley, Eating with Peter and Dawn Drzal
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NYSL: Conversation: Susan Buckley, Eating with Peter and Dawn Drzal