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The Macon Library was the 11th Carnegie Brooklyn library. Mapleton Library 1702 60th Street Founded in the 1930s, the Mapleton branch moved to its present building in 1955. [44] Marcy Library 617 DeKalb Avenue Formally known as the Tompkins Park Free Library, this branch opened in the center of Tompkins Park on June 6, 1899. [6] McKinley Park ...
The Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City.Located on Grand Army Plaza, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.
This library started out as an independent free library and was absorbed into Brooklyn Public Library in 1901. The building was designed by the Lord & Hewlett architecture firm and formally opened at 9424 Fourth Avenue on October 16, 1907. [5] 10: Greenpoint
Opened on December 16, 2013, the Mariners Harbor Library is located amidst the rich maritime heritage of Staten Island's Mariners Harbor neighborhood. A single-story branch library situated on a 16,000-square foot plot, Mariners Harbor is the thirteenth branch of The New York Public Library on Staten Island and serves roughly 30,000 people. [29] 85
In 1852, several prominent citizens established the "Brooklyn Athenaeum and Reading Room" for the instruction of young men. It was as was the practice in those times, a private, subscription library for members, who were recruited and encouraged by the rising mercantile and business class of young men, to continue by constant reading whatever formal education they had received through a ...
[2] [3] The library was one of the first in NYC to utilize a "merchandising format" of displaying books. [2] The Cortelyou branch was one of 10 branches to close temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] The library was remodeled in 2021, led by community organization Friends of Cortelyou Library. The branch re-opened in late 2021 after the ...
Public School 29, also known as the John M. Harrigan School, is a school located on Henry Street. [15] The building on Baltic Street that formerly housed Intermediate School 293 – which closed in 2005 due to poor performance – now contains two 6–12th grade schools: The Brooklyn School for Global Studies [16] occupies the top floor
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has three branches in Crown Heights: The Crown Heights branch, on the border with Flatbush/Prospect Lefferts Gardens, is located at 560 New York Avenue near Maple Street. The branch was built in 1958 as part of a plan by mayor Abraham Beame. [77]