May 23, 2012
Also Visit NY State Arts
Libraries
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Brooklyn
This library system--the fifth largest in the country--serves more than six million people each year. The famous Central Library, whose building resembles an open book, is the main reference center and the core of a borough-wide system with 58 branches in as many neighborhoods.
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Baychester Branch—New York Public Library
Bronx
Mon - Thurs: 10 am-8 pm
Fri & Sat: 10 am-5 pmThe Baychester Branch of The New York Public Library has been providing library services to Co-op City and the surrounding community since its opening in 1973. Occupying a single floor, the air-conditioned library has separate adult, young adult and children's collections. The extensive reference collection includes periodicals, newspapers and electronic services. A meeting room often used for library programs seats 70. The branch's location, in the Bartow Shopping Center, makes the library a very popular resource for community residents and contributes to its being one of the busiest branches in the Bronx.
The library has a small circulating collection of descriptive videos for the blind and visually impaired; a Personal Reading Machine; computer screen magnification software, and a Closed-Circuit Television Enlarger.For more information on the branch, click here.
Bay Ridge—Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn
Mon, Wed & Fri: 10 am-6 pm
Tues, Thurs: 1-8 pm
Sat: 10 am,-5 pmThe spacious, two-story structure opened in 1960. In 2004 it underwent a $2.1 million renovation that included a new roof, new lighting, furniture, shelving and 27 new public access computers. Multilingual materials include those in Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Korean, Polish, Russian, Urdu and Chinese. For more information, click here.
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Queens
Mon & Thurs 1-8 pm
Tues 1-6 pm
Wed & Fri 10 am-6 pm
Sat 10 am-5:30 pm
Sun closed
In addition to Chinese, French, Italian, Korean and Spanish foreign language collections, this branch also has special collections on Community History, Gardening, the Black Experience and Gardening.
For more information on the branch, click here.
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Queens
Mon & Thurs 1-8 pm
Tues 1-6 pm
Wed & Fri 10 am-6 pm
Sat & Sun closed
This branch has Chinese and Korean language collections as well as a special collection of fiction and popular reading.
For more information on the branch, click here.
Bedford Branch—Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn
Mon, Tues & Fri: 10 am-6 pm
Wed: 1-8 pm
Thurs: 1-6 pm
Sat: 10 am-5 pmThis is the first library in the Brooklyn Public Library system. It opened in 1897 in the former P.S. 3, a schoolhouse in a cornfield. After two other locations, it moved to its present 1905 Carnegie building. For more information on the branch, click here.