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46 NYPL branches across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island will host free game time livestreams of soccer matches for communities to watch together

Forty-six branches across The New York Public Library system will host watch parties for the FIFA World Cup 2026, beginning with the first match tomorrow, June 11, until the final game on July 19. All ages are welcome to these community-focused gatherings. 

The Library’s branches—21 in the Bronx, 18 in Manhattan, and 7 on Staten Island—showing the World Cup will have a special tournament-inspired Reading Tracker, encouraging visitors to get their reading minutes in throughout the tournament’s five stages. 

In addition, the Library is offering World Cup-related programming for adults, teens, and kids in branches, from soccer ball origami to button and flag making. See all World Cup-related programming in branches here. Soccer reading lists for kids & teens and adults are also available.

Watch parties and programming for the World Cup is a part of the annual, city-wide Summer at the Library initiative, which inspires summer reading and learning among children, young adults, and adults.

While not required, we encourage New Yorkers to sign-up for a Library card ahead of kick off, scoring themselves a brand new special-edition and recently issued library card commemorating 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was ratified. Signing up is easy and can be done online or in person. Guidance is available here.

The Library is also participating in “Already Home,” a citywide program from Team Wonder and the Mayor’s office, that encourages participants to pick up a passport, and then explore NYC and visit a range of events, organizations, and cultural institutions—including several of our branches—to receive a stamp.

Participating branches are listed below. Refer to nypl.org/summer/2026/watch-world-cup for information on which branches will host certain matches—not every participating branch will livestream each match. Select livestreams will be in Spanish.

The Bronx

Bronx Library Center

Hunts Point

Morris Park

Morrisania

Mott Haven

Woodstock

Baychester

City Island

Eastchester

Parkchester 

Pelham Bay

Soundview

Wakefield

Westchester Square

Francis Martin

Grand Concourse

Highbridge

Kingsbridge

Melrose 

Sedgwick

Van Cortlandt

Manhattan

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

Harlem

Roosevelt Island

Yorkville

Hudson Park

Jefferson Market

Mulberry Street

New Amsterdam

Seward Park

Tompkins Square

Fort Washington 

George Bruce

Inwood

Macomb’s Bridge

Morningside Heights

Riverside

St. Agnes

Washington Heights

Staten Island

Charleston

Dongan Hills

Great Kills

South Beach

St. George

Stapleton

Todt Hill-Westerleigh

World Cup tournament inspired Reading Tracker. Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

About The New York Public Library

For over 125 years, The New York Public Library has been a free provider of education and information for the people of New York and beyond. With over 90 locations—including research and branch libraries—throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, the Library offers free materials, computer access, classes, exhibitions, programming and more to everyone from toddlers to scholars. The New York Public Library receives approximately 16 million visits through its doors annually and millions more around the globe who use its resources at www.nypl.org. To offer this wide array of free programming, The New York Public Library relies on both public and private funding. Learn more about how to support the Library at nypl.org/support. 

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