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Built under the Beame plan in 1963, Brower Park Branch was the first library added to Brooklyn's northern section in 40 years. Loca...
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About the Library:
Two thousand people gathered to open the Macon Branch in 1907, the 11th Carnegie library in Brooklyn. The two-story Classical R...
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Branch History
Brooklyn Public Library’s first branch opened on December 20, 1897, in the old P. S. 3 on Bedford Avenue. It moved several ti...
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Marcy Branch began in 1899 as the Tompkins Park Free Library- a small Grecian-style building in the middle of the Tompkins Park...
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1044 Eastern Parkway at Schenectady Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY
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A two-story 5 bay library Carnegie building, Eastern Parkway Branch features a limestone facade with large arched windows and i...
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The DeKalb branch opened in 1905. The 12,000 square foot Classical Revival library, is a two-story, three-bay brick and limesto...
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Clinton Hill Library was built in 1973 to meet the needs of a vibrant and diverse community. The single-story building is set in a...
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Mission :
It is the mission of Brooklyn Public Library to ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture,...
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First opened in the rented first floor of a church at Montrose Ave and Humboldt St in 1903, it moved to its present 1908 home i...
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History
Flatbush Library serves one of Brooklyn’s most diverse communities. Its patrons include native speakers of English, Spanish, Kreyol ...
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8 Thomas S. Boyland St. at Macon St.,
Brooklyn, NY
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Saratoga Library opened in 1908 and is a Classical Revival-style Carnegie branch with a distinctive Spanish tile roof and a storied hist...
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In 1903, Williamsburgh Branch became the first Carnegie library built in Brooklyn. The 26,000 square-foot Classical Revival bu...
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Pacific Branch was the first Carnegie library to open in Brooklyn. The building won praise for its 'dignified' design and its f...
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About the Library:
The one-story Carnegie library opened in 1908. The building features five-bays, 10,000 plus square feet and a stone-trimmed doo...
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Ten years of community effort led to the opening of East Flatbush Branch in a Linden Boulevard storefront in 1945. In 1952, the...
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First opened in a storefront on Nassau and Bridge streets in 1900, the predecessor to Walt Whitman branch, formerly called "Cit...
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The two-story, Tudor Revival Washington Irving branch opened in 1923 -- the 21st and last Carnegie library built in Brooklyn. L...
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Known as "Prospect Branch" until 1975, Park Slope Branch began at the turn of the century with a small collection of natural hi...
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