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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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: 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:
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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The Peninsula Public Library was chartered by the State of New York as a school district library in 1951. We serve the residents of School District...
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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:
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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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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