Win $20,000 for Your Local Library in This Year's NYC Neighborhood Library Awards
Think your local library deserves a reward for all the hungry minds it feeds? The NYC Neighborhood Library Awards are back for their third annual year, and will be handing out a $20,000 top prize to the local library that’s doing the best job. Last year, East New York’s New Lots Library branch won the…
Think your local library deserves a reward for all the hungry minds it feeds?
The NYC Neighborhood Library Awards are back for their third annual year, and will be handing out a $20,000 top prize to the local library that’s doing the best job.
Last year, East New York’s New Lots Library branch won the “Library Oscar,” and has since put the $20,000 towards setting up satellite collections across the neighborhood and creating a entrepreneurial program for teenagers.
The awards are financed by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Charles H. Revson Foundation, both philanthropic grant organizations.
To help what you consider to be the best branch, ask a librarian for a form, or fill one out online, describing how this neighborhood library serves the community.
Library nominations are open from November 18 to December 18.
[Top photo: Cate Corcoran]
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The Brooklyn Public library’s destruction plan is to tear down, and downsize the Brooklyn Heights Libray and the Brooklyn business Library. This plan supported by big real estate is opposed by 95% of the public that lives in the area. The developer Hudson Companies stands to make over 500 million dollars in a deal that had an undervalued appraisal of city property. The deal is a bad one for the citizens. I think the Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Business Library Branch should win the award. The library has survived despite purposeful neglect to turn it into a property ready for a tear down. The award will send a powerful message to BPL and Mayor DeBlasio the our libraries are not to be sold or given away in a sweetheart deal of a friend of the Mayor
The Brooklyn Public library’s destruction plan is to tear down, and downsize the Brooklyn Heights Libray and the Brooklyn business Library. This plan supported by big real estate is opposed by 95% of the public that lives in the area. The developer Hudson Companies stands to make over 500 million dollars in a deal that had an undervalued appraisal of city property. The deal is a bad one for the citizens. I think the Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Business Library Branch should win the award. The library has survived despite purposeful neglect to turn it into a property ready for a tear down. The award will send a powerful message to BPL and Mayor DeBlasio the our libraries are not to be sold or given away in a sweetheart deal of a friend of the Mayor