Help Your Favorite Local Library Win $20,000!

Love your library? Whether your go-to branch is Homecrest, Kings Highway or Brighton Beach, 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, most notably, Sheepshead Bay libraries. You can see that one’s video nomination from last year above. Just note that last year’s winner is ineligible to win again this year – but that’s okay; we’ve got plenty of other great libraries in the area that can snag top honors.