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Cortelyou Library (Brooklyn, NY)

Planning for Cortelyou Branch began in 1969. However it was not until 1983 after years of patience and hard work by Flatbush residents, that construction was completed and the branch opened. Read more...

Coney Island Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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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 after moving to the old offices of the Coney Island Times on Stillwell Ave. In 1954, its new library was called “the first-ever library built on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean.” Read more...

Clinton Hill Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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Strong support from this economically and racially mixed community brought the branch into being in 1974. The Society for Clinton Hill, which met regularly at the library, gave impetus to the formation of the Friends of Clinton Hill Library. Read more...

Clarendon Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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Clarendon Branch began in 1913 as an unstaffed deposit station in a Clarendon Road drug store. In 1947, it moved to its present location in a storefront, and in 1954 it assumed full branch status. In 1990, a new building opened on the site. Its distinctive design featured a skylit reading room and recreational courtyard won the Arts Commission Award Read more...

Central Library Learning Center (Brooklyn, NY)

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Brooklyn Public Library Learning Centers provide free innovative educational programs for beginning adult readers and writers. Through books, technology, and small group instruction, adults build the skills needed to meet their personal, educational, and employment goals. Additional Brooklyn Public Library Learning Centers are located at the Bedford, Eastern Parkway, Flatbushand New Lots libraries. Adult learners in the program are English Read more...

Central Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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Each year, approximately one million people walk through Central Library’s majestic 50-foot high entryway, and countless others access its unique services online. Located at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway on Grand Army Plaza, Central Library contains over one million cataloged books, magazines, and multimedia materials and serves as the major reference center for BPL’s 60-location system. Opened Read more...

Carroll Gardens Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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Carroll Gardens Library is a library located in one o f New York’s borough Queens. This library offers a variety of books for all ages, toddlers to adults. Additionally, the library offers programs to help all kids in school improve in classes during the week, Monday through Friday. The people there are very helpful and will supply you with service Read more...

Canarsie Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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Opening in 1909, Canarsie became BPL’s thirty-ninth branch in 1932. Five years later, the library moved to more spacious quarters, but by 1957, even more room was requested and a new building was constructed in 1960. Read more...

Business & Career Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Reference Desk of the Business & Career Library is open during the following hours for assistance in-person or by phone. Monday 10 am – 6pm Tuesday 1 pm – 8 pm Wednesday 1 pm – 6 pm Thursday 1 pm – 6 pm Friday 10 am – 4 pm Saturday 1 pm – 5 pm Read more...

Bushwick Library (Brooklyn, NY)

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First opened in the rented first floor of a church at Montrose Ave and Humboldt St in 1903, the Bushwick branch moved to its present Carnegie Library home in 1908. Read more...