About the Library: In 1997, the library moved to its new 10,000-square-foot facility. A clock tower and two-story picture window overlooking the Sh...
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About the Library:
First opened in 1951 in a Nostrand Avenue storefront, Kings Bay Branch expanded into the adjacent store. In 1959, the widening ...
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About Us:
The original Sheepshead Bay Library opened August 22, 1903, after area residents lobbied for their own branch and raised $200 as a dow...
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About the Library:
The Homecrest branch is located at Coney Island Avenue. The library services four local schools and several daycare centers and...
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About the Library: Gravesend was one of the original six towns of Brooklyn.It was established in 1645 by Lady Deborah Moody and followers as a have...
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The Coney Island Branch started as an unstaffed deposit station in a Surf Avenue store in 1911. It became a fully staffed branch in 1921...
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About the Library:
In 1940, Mill Basin Branch opened in a deposit station in the Austin Pharmacy on Avenue T. It moved several times over the next...
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Ulmer Park Library opened as a sub-Library in 1951, and within five years grew into a full library. The library moved to its current loc...
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850 East 59th Street at Paerdegat Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY
About the Library: Residents opened the predecessor of Paerdegat Library in 1950 in the abandoned laundry of the Glenwood Project. Soon, supplied w...
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History
The Ryder Branch opened in April of 1970 in a neighborhood of one and two family houses in Bensonhurst. Built by the City of New York, the...
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About the Library:
Midwood Library was founded in 1912 as a deposit station in the Coney Island Drug Store. The branch moved several times over th...
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History:
Highlawn Library features a circular main room with walls of glazed block in a variety of colors, a design departure for Brooklyn librari...
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About the Library:
Clarendon Branch began in 1913 as an unstaffed deposit station in a Clarendon Road drug store. In 1947, it moved to its present...
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About the Library:
In 1973, the Jamaica Bay Branch was built on a site chosen after a public hearing. Its design, by Architects Leibowitz/Badouva ...
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About the Library:
The Mapleton Branch's first home was a small library on 10th Avenue that opened in 1934. A year later, it moved to a storefront...
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