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Photo by Utopian Branch [https://www.flickr.com/photos/utopianbranch/3469064600] .“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
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The Cortelyou Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. (Photo: Google Maps)“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
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Image via BPL Brooklyn Incubator [https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynPublicLibrary/photos/a.10153748528380250.1073741836.8544515249/10153748836055250/?type=3&theater] .Get your vote on — for a student-library outdoor gardening program that needs our help in winning funding! We only have today and tomorrow to register our votes — via Facebook comments
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Photo via led101 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BA4QuoLPsHx/?taken-at=61172945] Well, the blizzard really showed up this time. And as of this article (Saturday, January 23 at 1:10pm), the snow is still going strong. Whether you’re cozying up inside, or venturing out for a little looksee, here
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg].Whether you plan to spend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day reflecting on the nation’s unrest, taking in a movie at a local theater, or, I don’t know, selfishly capping off a three-day weekend without a thought
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Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6679339,-73.9837487,3a,75y,49.02h,95.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRzn8kBoDPnXc5mIYIPF4RQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1] The Park Slope Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/park-slope] is getting a major upgrade and a furry, funny friend in
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1930s era Walt Whitman Library, then known as the City Park branch. (Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.instagram.com/myrtleavebklyn].) The Walt Whitman Library branch has been serving our community and schoolkids for over a century — originally referred to as the City Park branch, until 1943 — and
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Courtesy Brooklyn Public Library [http://misc.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/btb/] Love your library? Whether your go-to branch is Park Slope [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/park-slope] (431 6th Avenue), Pacific [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/pacific](25 4th Avenue), or the Central Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/central](10 Grand
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Artists rendering of 1041-1047 Fulton Street. (Image via Marvel Architects [http://www.280cadman.com]).Some great news for us came out of an updated version of the city’s Brooklyn Heights Library sale: developer Hudson Companies has agreed to lower the Annual Median Income (AMI) threshold for applicants to their
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Photo by South Slope NewsLove your library? Whether your go-to branch is Park Slope [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/park-slope] (431 6th Avenue), Sunset Park [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/sunset-park] (5108 4th Ave), or the Central Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/central](10 Grand Army Plaza), you can
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Photo by Kensington BKLove your library? Whether your go-to branch is Windsor Terrace [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/windsor-terrace] (160 East 5th Street) or Kensington [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/kensington] (4207 18th Avenue), you can help it win $20,000 in the third annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards [http:
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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerIf you love the Cortelyou Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/cortelyou] (1305 Cortelyou Road) as much as we do, you can help it win $20,000 in the third annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards [http://www.nyclibraryawards.org/] – the “Oscar for libraries.” To nominate a