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Brownsville Branch—Brooklyn Public Library

61 Glenmore Avenue
(at Watkins Street)
Brooklyn, NY  11212
Tel: (718) 498-9721
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• Children's Library

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

With a collection of 7,000 books donated by the Hebrew Educational Society, the branch opened in 1905. In 1908, it moved to its present two-story brick and limestone Carnegie building. Its high usage spurred the 1914 construction of Brownsville Children's Library on nearby Stone Avenue, the first library in the world devoted exclusively to children. Later, it became the Stone Avenue Branch. For more information, click here.

• Directions: Subway: 3 to Rockaway Boulevard ( transfer to B60 to Rockaway Parkway & Pitkin Avenue); J to Alabama (transfer to B12 to East New York Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard); L to Sutter Avenue ( transfer to B14 to Pitkin Avenue and Watkins Street)

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