NRPL Blogs

100th Anniversary of World War I 100 years ago today, on April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. Like other comm...

Lou Gehrig's New Rochelle Wedding On this day, September 29, in 1933, New Rochelle resident and Yankee great Lou Gehrig married...

Olym p ic s: New Rochelle's Stars If you had the pleasure of reading The Boys in theBoat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Go...

  Alexander Jackson Davis - the New Rochelle Connection Part II Last week, we highlighted the great architect’s works for Colon...

Alexander Jackson Davis - the New Rochelle Connection Lyndhurst mansion, in Tarrytown, was profiled in the first episode of the new PBS...

Women in New Rochelle's History  In March, 1986, the New Rochelle Council on the Arts presented a groundbreaking, fascinating ex...

Secrets on the Shelves is a feature where we take a look at an interesting item that is located on the shelves of the New Rochelle Pu...

Postcards of Historic New Rochelle New Rochelle’s grand resorts, meandering shoreline, leafy neighborhoods, stately structures, and imp...

My name is Mr. Bloom and I'm from New Rochelle The late great song parodist Allan Sherman mentions New Rochelle in "Shine ...

The Ladies Man Jerry Lewis appeared onstage at the RKO Proctor's theater here in New Rochelle on July 12th, 1961 for the opening of...

NRHS: Class of 1951 One of the very best things about working in a library is that you have so many opportunities for interesting conve...

Recipes from 1945 When Larry Sheldon, a librarian/archivist here at NRPL, came across this gem in our archives, he just knew it had...

White Bread Was Invented For The Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich For your leftover-eating pleasure, we culled the sandwich-themed cook...