Park Slope Library to Close in Fall
The Brooklyn Public Library’s Park Slope branch at Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street is going to close this fall for renovations, reports The Brooklyn Paper, for up to two years. The $2 million renovation to the 1906 building will include the addition of an elevator, an air-conditioning system, an outdoor ramp, and restrooms to accommodate…
The Brooklyn Public Library’s Park Slope branch at Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street is going to close this fall for renovations, reports The Brooklyn Paper, for up to two years. The $2 million renovation to the 1906 building will include the addition of an elevator, an air-conditioning system, an outdoor ramp, and restrooms to accommodate handicapped visitors. The city informed the Paper that construction will begin in the fall and the two-year cap is the maximum amount of time that the branch will remain closed. A start date hasn’t been announced, but the BPL said that there will be a public meeting to discuss the project. GMAP
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Rob – Libraries also lend videos. Try it, you’ll like it.
:-/
*rob*
he tried to buy a black kid today too.
i’ve never been inside a nyc public library. what are they like?
*rob*
at first id think youre kidding, but then you are the dude who said the New Yorker is for snobs.
The disabled-access is long overdue, and I’m glad to hear about the a/c. This summer they’ve been running a combination of huge LOUD fans and those standing a/c units that are the size of a refrigerator and vent outside through a flexible tube pushed through hastily-cut hole in the window. It keeps the temperature manageable, though not cool, but it is very noisy.
Maybe they’ll do a little staff training in the interim. The desk staff is disinterested at best.
Love the inside of this gem! One wonders whether certain aspects of the renovation could be done without totally shutting down the facility: ie handicap access on the outside and certain portions of the inside work. Why can’t a part of the interior be cordoned off while that area is worked on? Two years to do this project is insane, the entire Empire State Building was built in 13 months!
sad that it could take 2 years though. our daughter goes to PS 39, which is without its own library, and uses that library.
rob —
They are big buildings with books in them. They also have movies, magazines, and newspapers. They let you take stuff home for free and keep it for a while if you promise to bring it back.
nsr
This is one of the historic Carnegie libraries.