Son returns mother’s library book 73 years overdue, checked out in the Bronx in 1952

The New York Public Library got an unexpected gift the week before Christmas - an overdue library book checked out from the Woodstock Library in the Bronx in 1952. A man returned the copy of Igor Stravinsky’s 1936 autobiography, which had been checked out by his mother 73 years ago, to The New York Public Library's 455 5th Ave. location.Billy Parrott, director of the Fifth Avenue branch known as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, said it was the oldest overdue book he had ever heard