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Apr
12
Sunset Park Library Is Up For $10K Or $20K Neighborhood Library Award

Sunset Park Library Is Up For $10K Or $20K Neighborhood Library Award

Image via Google Maps.Great news: Sunset Park Library (5108 Fourth Avenue, at 51st Street) is one of the 10
1 min read
Apr
02
April 3, Avenue C Plaza Awakening: A Harbinger of Summer Fun

April 3, Avenue C Plaza Awakening: A Harbinger of Summer Fun

Clear out those parked cars. Make way for the new Avenue C Plaza [/blog/events/meet-your-neighbors-who-are-creating-a-plaza-in-kensington-beautiful-plaza/] on the asphalt triangle
4 min read
Mar
30

Listen To Neighborhood Stories And Tell Your Own With BPL’s Oral History Project

Street games in old Brooklyn. (Image via Brooklyn Historical Society.)In this rapidly changing Brooklyn we live in, it is
1 min read
Mar
29

Bklyn Incubator Grant Funds Brooklyn Podcasting Club And Clinton Hill Library Garden

Image via CUNY.It’s good news for the mixtape and podcasting fans. Bklyn Mixtape Podcasting Club is being funded
2 min read
Mar
25
Bklyn Incubator Grant Funds Clinton Hill Library Garden And Brooklyn Podcasting Club

Bklyn Incubator Grant Funds Clinton Hill Library Garden And Brooklyn Podcasting Club

Photo by plherrin [https://instagram.com/p/2GLr0sRZZb/?taken-by=plherrin].A garden WILL grow in Brooklyn! More specifically, our own
3 min read
Mar
25
Celebrate Friendship In Urdu At Kensington Public Library Saturday

Celebrate Friendship In Urdu At Kensington Public Library Saturday

Pakistani instruments. (Photo: Pakistan360degrees.com)Come join your neighbors on Saturday for Dosti —  an Urdu cultural celebration of friendship! The
1 min read
Mar
14
Meet Augusta Palmer, Local Mom, Professor, And Filmmaker

Meet Augusta Palmer, Local Mom, Professor, And Filmmaker

Augusta Palmer is a filmmaker and professor at St. Francis College in downtown Brooklyn. Her latest film “A is for
4 min read
Mar
10
Throwback Thursday: Five Historical Treasures From The Pratt Institute Archives

Throwback Thursday: Five Historical Treasures From The Pratt Institute Archives

Image courtesy of Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php].The Pratt Institute Library was erected in 1896 as
4 min read
Mar
03
Translation Services Now Available At All Brooklyn Public Library Branches

Translation Services Now Available At All Brooklyn Public Library Branches

Photo by Utopian Branch [https://www.flickr.com/photos/utopianbranch/3469064600] .“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other
1 min read
Mar
02
Cortelyou Library Leads The Way In Using BPL’s New Multi-Lingual Services

Cortelyou Library Leads The Way In Using BPL’s New Multi-Lingual Services

The Cortelyou Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. (Photo: Google Maps)“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other
1 min read