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Brooklyn celebrates Black History Month with events honoring culture and history

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Feb. 3, 2025 By Lauren Rapp & Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil This February, Brooklyn is celebrating Black History Month with a dynamic lineup of events that highlight the borough’s deep-rooted connections to Black culture, history and achievements. From the soulful sounds of live performances at local theaters to thought-provoking discussions on the borough’s role in…

Turning the page: Clarendon Library in East Flatbush reopens after renovations

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Jan. 28, 2025 By Lauren Rapp The award-winning Clarendon Library in East Flatbush officially reopened Monday after extensive renovations. An unveiling ceremony drew a crowd of local elected officials, library leaders and smiling students from P.S. 361 East Flatbush Early Childhood School to celebrate the library’s 100-year history and the upgrades, which were finished…

New Lots Library redesign pays tribute to its roots as an African burial ground

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Dec. 26, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith Brooklyn Public Library has unveiled designs for a dramatically reimagined modern library in New Lots that nods to the site’s history as an African burial ground, set to replace the currently standing 1950s concrete library building. Architects MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks are behind the designs for the new building, whose…

Between the Bookends: Here are the Brooklyn Public Library’s most popular books of 2024

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Dec. 24, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen As the Brooklyn Public Library prepares to turn the page on 2024, it’s looking back on the last year in literature and taking stock of which books Brooklynites loved most.  Locals checked out millions of books, electronic media, and more this year, according to BPL’s website, even as…

Never-before-seen photos of James Baldwin surface at new BPL exhibit, ‘Turkey Saved My Life’

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Dec. 17, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen August marked the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, one of the most important authors in American history. The Brooklyn Public Library, like many cultural institutions, wanted to mark his centennial somehow. They weren’t quite sure how until Jakab Orsós, BPL’s vice president of arts and culture, got an…

Brooklyn Book Festival takes over this weekend with Children’s Day and Festival Day

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Sep. 27, 2024 By Jon Sosa The Big Apple’s biggest book festival is taking over Brooklyn this weekend with its closing chapters: Festival Day and Children’s Day. In this edition, this year’s festival kicked off on Sept. 22 and included bookend events across the borough, a virtual festival day, workshops, panels and more. Here’s…

Turning the page: Library lovers and officials celebrate return of Sunday service at Grand Army Plaza branch

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Jul. 15, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Elected officials and bookworms celebrated the return of Sunday service at seven library branches across the city on July 14, following an agreement between Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council last month to restore $58.3 million in funding to the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens public library systems…
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