The Stapleton Branch of The New York Public Library, which opened in 1907, is located on Canal Street, near the center of Stapleton Village and adj...
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St. George Library Center of The New York Public Library opened on June 26, 1907. It was designed by Carrere and Hastings, architects of the ...
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The South Beach Branch, has provided library service to the South Beach and Arrochar communities for over 40 years. Service was interrupted in 1989...
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The Dongan Hills Branch of The New York Public Library, which occupied a rented storefront on Richmond Road from 1957 to 1974, moved to its present...
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About the Library:
The Fort Hamilton Free Library, predecessor of the Fort Hamilton Branch, was founded over 100 years ago with capital of &quo...
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Built on its present site in 1896, the Bay Ridge Free Library, first organized in 1880 by the Bay Ridge Reading Club, became a BPL branch in 1901. ...
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The Bayonne Public Library is a magnificent building built in the Beaux-Art and Classical Revival styles complete with Ionic and Doric columns, and...
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Branch History
The residents of Dyker Heights have always felt passionately about their library. In 1968, when planning for the Dyker Branch of th...
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About the Library:
McKinley Park Branch entered the Brooklyn Public Library system in 1911 as a deposit station. As the community grew, a new 7,42...
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The first Todt Hill Branch opened for limited service in 1950 in an apartment in the Todt Hill Houses. In 1963, its name became the Todt Hill-Weste...
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Originally called South Branch, the original Sunset Park Library opened to the public on December 9, 1905, on the same site it occupies today. The ...
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About the Library: A literary club called the "Winter Society" founded the Free Library of the Town of New Utrecht in 1894. Its members applied to ...
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The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library encourages the preservation and cultivation of the documentary evidence of hum...
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History
The history of The New York Public Library begins more than 100 years ago. As the 19th century drew to a close, New York, the greatest c...
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The Richmondtown Branch of The New York Public Library is located on Clarke Avenue, between Amboy Road and Arthur Kill Road. This two-floor branch ...
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History
The current Greenville Branch Library, opened in 1927, sits on the southwest corner of then-called Hudson Boulevard and Stevens Avenue. Th...
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About the Library: An architectural gem, the original Red Hook Branch was the only Brooklyn Carnegie library to be built in Mediterranean Revival s...
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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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