New Brooklyn Heights Library Opens Tomorrow

By on June 7, 2022 2:34 pm in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Library

The new Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, located at 286 Cadman Plaza West, will open tomorrow, Wednesday, June 8. There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11:00 AM attended by NYPL President and CEO Linda Johnson along with “[e]lected officials and community leaders.”

“At 26,600 [square] feet, the new library features a double-height main hall, dedicated teen space, children’s wing, sunlit reading areas and much more.”

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  • B.

    Good Lord, another commenter who indulges in name-calling. Sorry, SongBird, no “elitist,” just another very middle-class, born Brooklynite.

  • nomcebo manzini

    There IS something sad about a person (not you) hearing “community space” and then thinking (pretty reasonably), “There could have been more books there” and then – thinking themselves witty – conclude, “Brooklyn Heights [now has] a community space where a library used to be.” [Um – there WAS a community space – probably larger – in the branch now replaced.]

    Similarly, I think we both recognize that libraries have missions – and always have had – BEYOND housing books. Should there be 50 different books on the Civil War, say, on the shelves of the new branch? Or should every parent and child’s caregiver bring most of BH’s children there at least once a week? Space & money are not unlimited. Sooner or later, objectives like that bump heads, and “elitist” – favoring the small number who want to do research IN A LOCAL branch over a much larger number who don’t – is simply an accurate characterization of priorities I beg to differ with.

    Last, the proverbial picture that’s worth 1000 words:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bf77212d26bc7837f53f437921561da6be6f747bec51860790f8917ab95770dc.jpg

    Hope there’s a few $ left to fill some of the empty space on those interior shelves, but this
    is still very much a book-centric library!

  • B.

    “Witty”? The dumbing down of our educational system, as well as of our libraries, is no laughing matter.

  • CassieVonMontague

    How many books does a library make?

    When it was announced that the Library contained all books, the first reaction was unbounded joy. All men felt themselves the possessors of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal problem, no world problem, whose eloquent solution did not exist […] Others went insane . . . . […] those who went in quest of them failed to recall that the chance of a man’s finding his own Vindication, or some perfidious version of his own, can be calculated to be zero.

    -“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Louis Borges

  • CassieVonMontague

    As long a none have a strong opinion on “library” vs “community space”

  • KDHicks

    Whew, the comments on this one!! I didn’t see the old library, but I can understand some of the frustration — in Brooklyn Heights of all places, we should probably have a historical library. Thankfully, we have the historical society (anyone know when that will be back open? It’s been temporarily closed since COVID). And honestly, really happy to have an opened, fully-functioning, state of the art library in our neighborhood. Gensler did a great job on the design — might even attract new audiences / literary tourists.

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