Cancelled: PWPL Walking Meetup

Join PWPL staff and friends from the Bryant Library as we explore our local Hempstead Harbor Shoreline Trail, just minutes away from the Library. We will meet at the starting point (North Hempstead Beach Park), by a small gazebo in the parking lot next to the Manhasset Crew Team's storage. Please bring your own water. All participants will need to sign a waiver prior to meeting at the Trail. Registration is required. 

Hempstead Harbor Shoreline Trail
A passive, recreational trail (1.92 miles - almost 4 miles out and back) with beautiful views of Hempstead Harbor, including wetlands, wildlife, and birds. The Trail is a combination of smooth and wood chip surfaces, and it is fairly flat and meandering, with some light hills.

*EXERCISE WAIVER 

10:00am - 11:30am View Details

Book Discussion: "What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters"

Join Registered Dietitian Tina Fuchs for a two-part discussion of Marion Nestle's book What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters. The book will be available for pickup at the Information Desk for registered participants. 

Registration is required. 

Sponsored by the Health Advisory Council.

11:00am - 12:00pm View Details

Nonfiction Book Club

Join fellow readers at the library for an engaging discussion of The Great Miscalculation: the Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower by Michael M. Greenburg on Thursday May 14th at 1p.m.

The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown jewel of his professional career; In essence, he created a skyscraper on stilts. The building was a modern marvel – until it was revealed that it had a 1 in 16 chance of collapse.

The Great Miscalculation tells the riveting story of LeMessurier’s discovery of a fatal flaw in his building’s design and his decision to blow the whistle on himself, putting his reputation on the line in a race to save this iconic skyscraper. With hurricane season rapidly approaching, the structural design flaws of the Citicorp Tower posed a menacing danger. Meanwhile, the economic hardships and political turmoil of 1970s New York only compounded the obstacles to a massively expensive, never-before-seen structural redesign in the heart of downtown Manhattan.

A fascinating piece of overlooked New York City history, The Great Miscalculation tells the gripping narrative of a catastrophe averted in the nick of time.

Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be picked up at the Information Desk.

1:00pm - 2:30pm View Details

Art Lecture with Thomas Germano - Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) is one of the most influential artists of the modern and post-modern periods. Over a six-decade career, Duchamp challenged the very definition of the object/artwork, and his art has been referenced by artists so frequently, the term “Duchampian” has become an understood term we use frequently to describe ready-made mass-produced objects incorporated as, or within a work of art.  Duchamp contributed to Cubism, Futurism, Da Da, Surrealism, Pop, and trompe l’oeil. Duchamp’s pursuits were marked by continuous reinvention and deliberate inconsistencies.

Showing first at MoMA, NYC from April 12, through August 22, 2026, before traveling to the Philadelphia Museum of Art Fall, 2026, and a smaller version presented in Paris’s Grand Palais in Spring, 2027. The MoMA and Philadelphia Museum will feature approximately 300 artworks offering today’s audiences the first opportunity to view the full breadth of Duchamp’s creative output. This exhibition marks the first retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States since 1973.

Professor Thomas Germano will present a visual lecture exploring the life and career of Marcel Duchamp.

2:00pm - 3:30pm View Details