About the Library:
One of the newest public libraries in Brooklyn, the branch began in 1955 in the Cypress Hill Houses, a large neighborhood housi...
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History
Spring Creek Library is one of the most recent branches added to the BPL system. Opened in the summer of 1977 amid the fiscal austerities ...
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About the Library:
The predecessor to New Lots Branch was a community library organized in 1942 by the Women's Club of the East New York "Y.&...
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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:
Stone Avenue opened in 1914 as the Brownsville Children's Library, the world's first public library devoted to children. In the...
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About the Library:
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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