List of Brooklyn Public Library branches 3

List of Brooklyn Public Library branches

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The Brooklyn Public Library consists of a Central Library, a Business & Career Library, and 58 neighborhood branches in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Eighteen libraries are historic Carnegie libraries.^[1] The Brooklyn Public Library also has five adult learning centers.

The Brooklyn Public Library is one of three separate and independent public library systems in New York City. The other two are the New York Public Library (serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island), and the Queens Library (serving Queens).

Libraries

New Utrecht Library		1743 86th Street	The branch was founded in 1894 as the Free Library of the Town of New Utrecht and became a BPL branch in 1901. The current building opened in 1956.[49]
Pacific Library		25 Fourth Ave. at Pacific St.	The Pacific Branch was the first Carnegie Branch to open to the public in Brooklyn, on October 8, 1904. Designed by Raymond F. Almirall and built by the Church Construction Company, the New York Tribune praised the new branch for its classical and dignified design.[6]
Paerdegat Library		850 E. 59th Street	The branch opened in 1950 and moved to its current building in 1959.[50]
Park Slope Library		431 6th Ave. at 9th St.	This library began life as a small collection of books on natural history in the Litchfield Mansion in Prospect Park. In 1906, the building, designed by Raymond Almirall was finished, using Carnegie funds.[6] It was named the “Prospect branch” before 1975.[51]
Red Hook Library		7 Wolcott Street	The branch was originally housed in a Carnegie library, which was built in 1915 but burned down in a 1946 fire. The branch moved several times before moving to its current location.[52]
Rugby Library		1000 Utica Avenue	The branch opened in 1957.[53] It was closed for renovations in mid-2018.[54]
Ryder Library		5902 23rd Ave. (bet. 23rd Ave. at 59th St.)	The branch opened in April 1970 and was designed by Arthur Witthoefft.[55]
Saratoga Library		8 Thomas S. Boyland Street	The branch is a Carnegie library that opened in 1909.[56]
Sheepshead Bay Library		2636 East 14th Street	The branch has occupied four buildings since it was founded in 1903. The current 7,475-square-foot (694.5 m2) building opened in 1963.[57]
Spring Creek Library		12143 Flatlands Avenue	The single-story, 7,500 square feet (700 m2) structure opened in 1977.[58]
Stone Avenue Library		581 Mother Gaston Boulevard	When the branch opened in 1914 as the Brownsville Children’s Library, it was among the world’s first children’s libraries, as well as one of the last Carnegie libraries in Brooklyn. The branch was renovated in 2014.[59] Stone Avenue was renamed to Mother Gaston Boulevard in 1981, but the library kept its original name.[60]
Sunset Park Library		5108 4th Avenue	The branch was founded in 1905 and was initially located in a two-story Carnegie library designed by Lord and Hewlett. The old library was demolished and rebuilt between 1970 and 1972.[61] A redevelopment of the library site, including a replacement library space, was proposed in 2014 and approved in 2017.[62]
Ulmer Park Library		2602 Bath Avenue 40.592901°N 73.988609°W	The branch was founded as a subdivision of another library in 1951 before becoming a full-fledged circulation branch in 1956. The current building was opened in 1963 and was renovated in 2016.[63]
Walt Whitman Library		93 Saint Edwards Street	The current Carnegie library structure opened in 1908.[64]
Washington Irving Library		360 Irving Avenue	The branch opened in 1923 and was Brooklyn’s final Carnegie library.[65]
Williamsburgh Library		240 Division Avenue	The original building was designed by Richard A. Walker in classical revival style.[6] It is housed in a 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) Carnegie library structure that is one of Brooklyn’s largest circulating-library buildings, and is a New York City designated landmark.[66]
Windsor Terrace Library		160 East 5th Street	The branch began as a deposit station with a small collection in 1922, but after 1940, service was intermittent after the library moved to a makeshift structure created out of two old streetcars. In 1969, it moved again into the current library building, which had been completed that year.[67]: 391 [68] The branch was renovated in 1994, and again in 2011.[68] It closed for another renovation in February 2019.[69]