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⭐️ Novel Night Last Guest Reminders ⭐️Pelham Party People: Check your wig, slug your electrolytes and get hyped—Novel N...
10/03/2025

⭐️ Novel Night Last Guest Reminders ⭐️

Pelham Party People: Check your wig, slug your electrolytes and get hyped—Novel Night is 48 hours away!

Guests attending (or their companions) received the following announcements via email, and we're sharing them here just in case you missed.

1. Please be respectful of our generous hosts and their homes.

2. While transportation to the afterparty is not guaranteed, some parties may provide transport. Otherwise, please ensure you are booking your Uber or car service if you are not driving to the NYAC. Also...

3. NEW THIS YEAR: A trolley service will deliver revelers to and from the NYAC, via the stops below. However, seats are limited.

Trolley #1 will start at stop 1 (below) and Trolley # 2 will start at stop 5 (below), both at 8:30 pm. They will then move on to the next stop (Trolley #1, stops 1-4 and Trolley #2, 5-7) before arriving at NYAC. The two trolleys will circulate in this pattern until there are no longer guests at each stop.

The trolleys will commence departures from the NYAC at 10:30 pm, and continue until 1 am (the party ends at 12 am).
Stop 1 - Lincoln & 3rd Avenue
Stop 2 - Harmon & Highbrook
Stop 3 - Highbrook & 1st Street
Stop 4 - Boulevard & Pelhamdale
Stop 5 - Pelhamdale & Witherbee
Stop 6 - Hudson & Clay
Stop 7 - Pelhamdale & Manor Circle

**PLEASE DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE: the safety of all Pelhamites is paramount. All cars will be permitted to park overnight at the NYAC.

4. Parking for the village will be via permit only for overnight parking. Parking in Pelham Manor will be fine for the night. Both police departments have been informed about the homes and the number of attendees at each party.

5. All hosts will be distributing the Novel Night After Party Bracelet. This is required for you to enter the New York Athletic Club following your dinner and will be checked upon arrival.

6. Stop by our photobooth in NYAC, and we have photogs
circulating all the homes and the after party (smile!). Photos will be posted on social media and the website shortly after.

SEE YOU SOON!!! Friends of the Pelham Library

We cant wait for this totally tubular 80s Bash all thanks to our awesome hosts Michelle & Sean Egan, Tracy and Eric Hyde...
09/24/2025

We cant wait for this totally tubular 80s Bash all thanks to our awesome hosts Michelle & Sean Egan, Tracy and Eric Hyde and Jeremy and Beth Saks.
Pelham its time to Dust off your Ray-Bans and tease up your hair because Pelham Librarys novel night is throwing a party in full Brat Pack style. You’ll have the opportunity to relive the glory days by dressing up as your favorite Brat Pack character as our DJ spins the greatest 80s hits. Come pretty in pink or as hot as St. Elmo’s fire.

Pelham shows its true grit with a side of revenge !! Come as Mattie Ross, Rooster Cogburn or LaBoeuf, or dress with late...
09/24/2025

Pelham shows its true grit with a side of revenge !! Come as Mattie Ross, Rooster Cogburn or LaBoeuf, or dress with late 1870s garb .. A huge thank you to Emily and Justin Pauley for hosting this Pelham novel night party.. Just as Mattie Ross does in this tale of justice and courage, come ready to show your true grit

“We’ve got chills, they’re multiplying….because Ron and Kate Martucci and Jennifer and Joe Turner are hosting Novel ni...
09/24/2025

“We’ve got chills, they’re multiplying….because Ron and Kate Martucci and Jennifer and Joe Turner are hosting Novel night.. Thank you for bringing Rydell high to Pelham for this years novel night. We cant wait to travel back to 1959 where you can channel your inner Sandy (Original or Bad Girl) or Danny (Greaser or Varsity Letterman)— though there’s ample opportunity to include Rizzo if you’re feeling moody (or Patty Simcox if you’re peppy!) Either way, all beauty school dropouts, Pink Ladies and T-Birds are welcome!

Our very own supper club full of Glitz, Gossip and Glamour here in Pelham well for one night only !! Novel Night of cour...
09/04/2025

Our very own supper club full of Glitz, Gossip and Glamour here in Pelham well for one night only !! Novel Night of course!! A huge thank you to hosts Jennifer and Trabue Bland, Kate Pringle and John McCormick for hosting “The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo book party for Novel Night. It’s sure to be where Old Hollywood meets scandal, style, and simmering secrets while you mingle with mysterious icons of another era...

With one month to go til Novel Night, our After Party sponsor deserves a second Benchmark Education Company shoutout!⭐️ ...
09/04/2025

With one month to go til Novel Night, our After Party sponsor deserves a second Benchmark Education Company shoutout!

⭐️ Novel Night Sponsor Spotlight! ⭐️

Friends of the Pelham Library are SO happy to share that Benchmark Education Company is back as the generous sponsor of this year’s Novel Night After Party!

Benchmark Education is family-owned and operated by longtime Pelhamites Tom and Sera Reycraft, alongside their children Sera Hoffman and Will Reycraft—all proud supporters of the Town of Pelham Public Library

Their commitment runs deep: Benchmark also sponsored the After Party in 2018, 2021 and 2023. And Sera Reycraft helped fund and build the current Library building back in the '90s!

Benchmark’s mission is simple and powerful: literacy changes lives. They publish resources that support students and educators. So it's only fitting that their support of Novel Night ensures our Library can continue to offer programming, tech access and cozy, quiet spaces to nourish readers of all ages.

Cheers to the Reycraft family and Benchmark Education for their continued generosity. We can’t wait to see you at the After Party—October 4 at the New York Athletic Club!

Learn more at www.pelhamnovelnight.com

We cant wait to join the medieval harvest festival celebrating the new Gothic cathedral here in Kingsbridge or i should ...
09/04/2025

We cant wait to join the medieval harvest festival celebrating the new Gothic cathedral here in Kingsbridge or i should I say Pelham for Pelham Library’s Novel Night. We nobles and peasants thank our hosts Adam & Kim Riegel for hosting this novel night party . By my troth, this party will be cemented in history.

Brotherhood, betrayal and overall anarchy are the theme at this Novel Night. Whether you’re a member of the Sons of Anar...
09/04/2025

Brotherhood, betrayal and overall anarchy are the theme at this Novel Night. Whether you’re a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, part of the Galindo drug cartel, or a member of a rival club, Charming, CA holds nothing on Pelham. Thank you to our Novel Night party hosts Michael and Jessyka Calzolaio, Eva and Franc Mrizaj and Theresa and Mike Bunyan. Whether you arrive on foot or on your two-wheeler, you’re sure to leave an outlaw ready to “Ride Free or Die.”

Pelham Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your ears; we come to celebrate Novel Night, not to bury it. On the eve of O...
09/04/2025

Pelham Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your ears; we come to celebrate Novel Night, not to bury it. On the eve of October the 4th, emperors and Roman elite, gods and goddesses, gladiators, poets, and philosophers will join us under the tent at an Ancient Rome-style feast. Grazie Mille to our hosts Elizabeth Bewley & Ethan Goldman for hosting this novel night festa !! Friends of the Pelham Library

we’re throwing it back to the glory days when music videos ruled the world, VJs were household names, and MTV wasn’t jus...
09/04/2025

we’re throwing it back to the glory days when music videos ruled the world, VJs were household names, and MTV wasn’t just a channel—it was a lifestyle !! So dress to impress as your favorite MTV ICON… Big rock star thank you to our hosts Courtney and Matt Maron and Beth and Kevin Ritchie for hosting!! That’s Hot Friends of the Pelham Library

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