Help Your Favorite Local Library Win $20,000!

Love your library? Whether your go-to branch is Clinton Hill (380 Washington Avenue between Greene and Lafayette Avenues), Walt Whitman (93 Saint Edwards Street between Myrtle and Park Avenues), or Bedford (496 Franklin Avenue between Fulton Street and Jefferson Avenue), you can help it win $20,000 in the second annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.

To nominate a location, neighbors are asked to fill out a short survey about the branch’s services and strengths. Anyone can vote, including library staff, elected officials, and representatives of businesses or community groups (and, of course, locals not affiliated with any of those things)–just be sure to do so before December 12 at 11:59pm.

Out of 25 semifinalists and 10 finalists, five libraries across NYC will ultimately be selected as winners. Last year’s top five included Queens’ Corona Library, Staten Island’s New Dorp Library, the Lower East Side’s Seward Park Library, and Brooklyn’s Macon and Sheepshead Bay Libraries. Check out videos on the Brooklyn branches’ outstanding nominations from neighbors below.

Top photo via Utopian Branch Library