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3 books for Brooklyn architecture and history lovers on your holiday list

By Susan De Vries

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Brooklyn Public Library announces most-borrowed book of all time to celebrate 125th anniversary

By Isabel Song Beer

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Bed-Stuy welcomes two independent bookstores on Tompkins Avenue

By Anna Bradley-Smith

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With revamp, Brownsville Heritage House aims to be ‘neighborhood’s public living room’

By Anna Bradley-Smith

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Kids & Education

Banned Books Week: As book bans become ‘more numerous, more organized, more effective,’ Brooklyn Public Library fights back

By Drew Richardson

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Park Slope

New bookstore ‘Troubled Sleep’ offers a balm for Brooklyn’s insomniac readers

Miriam Fukesman

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Brooklyn Public Library unveils rentable vinyl collection

By Ben Brachfeld

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Downtown

Next chapter: Beloved Brooklyn Book Festival to make big return this September

By Drew Richardson

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Brooklyn Heights

Magic on Montague: Books Are Magic, beloved indie bookstore, to open second location in Brooklyn Heights

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Flatbush

Greenlight Bookstore’s neighborhood-wide Where’s Waldo hunt is back through July 31

By Miriam Fukesman

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Bay Ridge

Mckinley Park Library gets makeover, new funding for youth programs

By Drew Richardson

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Books

Two years into pandemic, puzzles are still popular at Brooklyn bookstores

By Mikaela Wegner

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Brooklyn Book Festival returning to online, in-person programming this fall

By Jessica Parks

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Brooklyn Public Library shutters 10 branches amid staff shortages

By Aidan Graham

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Brooklyn Public Library’s most-borrowed books give glimpse into a year in literature

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Brooklyn Public Library celebrates 125th anniversary with unveiling of two new facilities

By Ben Verde

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DUMBO

Dumbo finally gets a library, Brooklyn’s first new branch in 40 years

By Ben Brachfeld

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Books

Check it out! Brooklyn Public Library to stop charging for late returns

By Ben Verde

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Downtown

Photos: Brooklyn Book Festival makes sunny return to in-person

By Susan De Vries

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Books

Brooklyn Book Festival returns with hybrid event starting September 26

By Craig Hubert

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