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Kings Highway Library Will Close For Renovations

The Kings Highway Library. (Photo: Google Maps)Attention bookworms! The Kings Highway Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/kings-highway] will be closed for one week while the branch get upgraded, energy-efficient LED lighting. The library will shut down at the end of the day on Friday, April 15, and reopen

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Brooklyn Public Library Lending Free Laptops While Brighton Branch Closes

The Brighton Beach Library. (Photo: Google Maps)The Brooklyn Public Library is lending free laptops to library cardholders while the Brighton Beach branch [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/brighton-beach] closes for a $1.5 million renovation, City Councilman Chaim Deutsch announced Wednesday. Library patrons can go to the Shorefront Jewish

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Things To Do In Southern Brooklyn This Week: Chess Showdown, Poetry Session, ‘Next Year Jerusalem’

(Photo: Enrico Strocchi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/strocchi/1348020612/] / Flickr)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Sit down with for a friendly chess match, jam out with some fellow poetry enthusiasts or enjoy a free screening of “Next Year Jerusalem.” There’s also a health insurance navigator

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Things To Do In Southern Brooklyn: Meteor Shower, Polar Bear Plunge, New Year’s In Coney Island

The 2015 Polar Bear Plunge. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Ring in the New Year by watching the ball drop on the Parachute Jump in Coney Island. Then take a brisk dip with the Polar Bear’s the next day and finish the

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Brighton Beach Library To Close For $1.5 Million Renovation

Source: WikipediaThe Brighton Beach Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/brighton-beach] will close in January — and reopen in the fall — while the branch gets a $1.5 million overhaul of its heating and cooling system, according to a spokesperson for the Brooklyn Public Library. The branch will shutter its doors

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Things To Do In Southern Brooklyn This Week: The Nutcracker, Dyker Lights, Poetry Jam & More

(Photo: Bruce Handy [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208612480779611&set=a.1077249661615.14122.1537445879&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Get in the holiday spirit by checking out the Christmas lights in Dyker Heights or go to Fort Hamilton High School to

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Things To Do In Southern Brooklyn This Week: Creative Mask Making, Smoke Alarm Giveaway, 75th Anniversary For Manhattan Beach Community Group

(Photo: vivi_gon_falc [https://www.instagram.com/p/8mVgAjyLw7_WopwAF4lLFzxDgKaPNuzeRz3S40/] / Instagram)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. City Councilman Chaim Deutsch is giving away free smoke alarms, there is a poetry jam session in Coney Island, a mask making workshop and a free movie at the library.

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Things To Do In Southern Brooklyn This Week: General Elections, Movies & Sandy Recovery Workshops

Photo: Brian Omura [https://www.flickr.com/photos/oleswerdlow/2810620166/] / Flickr)Lots of things to do in southern Brooklyn this week. If you’re registered to vote, be sure to turn out for the general election this Tuesday. There are also several civic group meetings, an art exhibit, exercises and

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Things To Do In Southern Brooklyn This Week: 18th Avenue Feast, WWE SummerSlam At MCU Park, Free Concerts & Movies

The 2009 18th Avenue Feast. (Photo: Anthony Catalano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/badwsky/3926217467] / Flickr)Plenty of exciting summer events in southern Brooklyn this week. Don’t miss the 18th Avenue Feast of Santa Rosalia, which begins on Thursday. There’s also free concerts in the park, movie night

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Architects Propose Redesigns Of Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island And Brighton Libraries

Image via Center for an Urban Future. [www.nycfuture.org].Libraries are already centers of community life and now, several architects have imagined them also serving as hubs for everything from retail and affordable housing to disaster relief. Five Brooklyn library branches — including Sheepshead Bay [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/

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After $1 Million In Repairs, Sheepshead Bay Library First To Reopen After Sandy

Two and a half months after Superstorm Sandy doused the Sheepshead Bay branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the location reopened to the public yesterday. The 2636 East 14th Street branch is the first BPL location shuttered by the floodwaters to reopen. When we stopped by yesterday, there was already

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Sheepshead Libraries To Lose Saturday Hours

Brooklyn Public Library officials and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have struck a deal to maintain a minimum of five day service at all branches, narrowly escaping devastating cuts that would have shuttered branches and eliminated hours across the board. [ABOVE: Watch BPL Representative Mel Henkle tell Community Board 15 about the