Discover What to Read Next
Looking for a recommendation of your next great read? Browse lists of CPL staff recommendations and the latest new releases, or request free personalized recommendations!
Discover What to Read Next
Looking for a recommendation of your next great read? Browse lists of CPL staff recommendations and the latest new releases, or request free personalized recommendations!
Summer Reading: Kickoff Block Party (Collins)
Celebrate the start of summer at a neighborhood bash. Join us for outdoor activities and face painting by Color Me Funky. We'll have supplies to decorate mini planters and pot some seeds. Refreshments will be served. All ages.
In the event of inclement weather, all activities will move indoors.
Bluebikes Youth Discount
Are you a Cambridge high school student between the ages of 16 and 19? Do you want to pay $25 a year for a Bluebikes membership? Look no further!
Personal Exemptions
The laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provide for real estate tax relief for certain people.
Cambridge 311 Performance Dashboard Now Available
The City of Cambridge is pleased to announce the public launch of a tool we’ve been using internally to measure and improve how the City responds to SeeClickFix (311) service requests. The Cambridge 311 Performance Dashboard is our performance yardstick. It's the same tool our teams rely on every day to stay on track, and now we’re giving you access to it too.
Great Books Book Group (Main/Virtual)
This week's selection: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, "The American Scholar," "The Divinity School Address"
Reading Interests: We concentrate on Great Books in the following areas: a long novel over the summer, two sections of poetry and short stories, a book of the Bible, a Shakespeare play, an ancient and modern drama, a work of science, a smaller work of fiction, an even smaller work of fiction, and a rotating mix of politics, philosophy, and religion. Authors read in the past five years include Dickens, Keats and Yeats, O'Connor and Munro, Ecclesiastes, Sophocles and August Wilson, Darwin, Austen, Duras, The Federalist Papers, and Arendt.
How to get the print book: Copies of the reading are set aside at the Main Library. Visit the Main Library at 449 Broadway during current service hours and a staff member can help you get a copy.
How to register: Registration is required. Click the registration link below to register.
This is a hybrid event. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1 hour before the event.
For more information, contact Drew Griffin (dgriffin@cambridgema.gov)
Key Information on Multifamily Housing Zoning
Looking to learn more about multifamily housing and zoning? Visit the Community Development Department's dedicated website to review important information, past presentations, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), find upcoming meetings, and sign up for updates to proposed changes.
MA250 Event: "Born In Cambridge" Tours - North Cambridge
Join authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta for a walking tour of North Cambridge that brings Born in Cambridge to life, highlighting the people, places, and pivotal moments that reveal how this small city became a powerful engine of innovation, reinvention, and revolutionary ideas across four centuries.