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Bedford Branch—Brooklyn Public Library

496 Franklin Avenue
(at Hancock Street)
Brooklyn, NY  11238
Tel: (718) 623-0012
Map

• Libraries
• Children's Library

Mon, Tues & Fri: 10 am-6 pm
Wed: 1-8 pm
Thurs: 1-6 pm
Sat: 10 am-5 pm

This 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.

• Directions: Subway: C, S to Franklin Avenue

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