Summer Reading Week Five: Teamwork
Our summer reading theme for Summer 2023 is “All Together Now”. For the next four weeks, we will be exploring themes of TOGETHERness, in an acrostic using the word “together”.
This week’s theme is Teamwork!
Riverfront Library will close at 5pm on Thursday, April 24th for a special event
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The Crestwood Library and the Women Who Created It
In the early 20th century the Crestwood neighborhood was physically separated from the rest of Yonkers and its resources, including the downtown branch of the Yonkers Public Library.
Summer Reading Week Four: Energy
Our summer reading theme for Summer 2023 is “All Together Now”. For the next six weeks, we will be exploring themes of TOGETHERness, in an acrostic using the word “together”.
This week’s theme is Energy.
Podcast Review: The Daily
The Daily is an informative news podcast. It is hosted by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise and powered by the New York Times journalism.
Register for 1000 Books For Kindergarten and become the hero of your own book!
Are you the parent or caregiver of a prekindergarten child? If so, we strongly recommend you register for the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program.
Summer Reading Week Three: Growing
Our summer reading theme for Summer 2023 is “All Together Now”. For the next six weeks, we will be exploring themes of TOGETHERness, in an acrostic using the word “together”.
Video Game Day
To beat the summer heat, it’s fun to stay inside, crank up the AC and play a few games.
YWCA's history in Yonkers
When you think of “the Y,” what pops into your head? A catchy song you used to hear at the disco?
Podcast Review: Unfinished: Short Creek
Unfinished: Short Creek is a podcast about abuse in the FLDS Church, a fundamentalist and polygamous sect of Mormonism.
4th of July 2023
July 4th, often referred to as the Fourth of July, is Independence Day in the United States.
Summer Reading Week Two: Outdoors
Our summer reading theme for Summer 2023 is “All Together Now”. For the next eight weeks, we will be exploring themes of TOGETHERness, in an acrostic using the word “together”.
Brookwood Labor College: Early 20th-Century Workers' Education in Westchester
Between 1918 and 1921, various groups associated with the labor movement in the United States founded at least 20 colleges and institutes geared specifically towards workers.1 These schools were not intended to funct
YPL Seed Library Bingo
The YPL Seed Library has been a success again this year! Seeds have been picked up and planted and are now in full bloom in gardens all around Yonkers.
International Stitch Day: 6/26
From Christmas to Halloween, Independence Day to Cinco de Mayo, there exists a wide range of holidays that people love to celebrate.