Press Releases

2022

Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2022 Shortlist for Book Prize
October 12 2022
Brooklyn Public Library, In Partnership with Prospect Park Alliance, Announces the Return of Immigrant-Taught University Open Air
August 31 2022
Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2022 Longlist for Book Prize
August 22 2022
New York City Public Libraries Launch 2022 Summer Reading and Learning Programs with Generous Support from the New York Life Foundation
July 06 2022
Library Fashion Academy Celebrates Class of 2022 with Runway Show On Central Library Plaza
June 27 2022
Brooklyn Public Library Honors Grammy and Academy Award Winning Composer and Band Leader Jon Batiste, Best-Selling Author and Emmy Award Winning Journalist Suleika Jaouad and Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women Initiative
June 17 2022
Brooklyn Public Library Celebrates Renovation of McKinley Park Library
June 16 2022
New Brooklyn Heights Library Now Open
June 08 2022
Artist Marisa Moràn Jahn Named Katowitz Radin Artist-in-Residence
June 02 2022
New York City’s Public Libraries Make a Statement Against Censorship with NYC Banned Books Challenge
May 23 2022
Brooklyn Public Library and Villa Albertine’s Sixth Night of Ideas Returns in Person on May 21
May 16 2022
Brooklyn Public Library’s Nicole Bryan Named 2022 Mover and Shaker By Library Journal
May 04 2022
Brooklyn Public Library Presents “The People’s Ball,” a Celebration of Style, Individuality and Creativity
April 21 2022
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities
April 13 2022
Google Arts & Culture Launches Mali Magic with Brooklyn Public Library as Sole North American Partner
March 10 2022
Brooklyn Public Library and The Lenape Center Announce Programming Series and Anthology Accompanying Lenapehoking, the First Lenape-Curated Exhibition in New York
March 01 2022
Brooklyn Public Library Exhibits Smita Sen’s Installation Responding to the American Healthcare System and Aesthetics of Care The Manipura Sanctum at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch
February 24 2022
First Ever Lenape-Curated Exhibition in New York Features Masterworks by Lenape Artists, Created Through Partnership Between Brooklyn Public Library and The Lenape Center
January 12 2022

2021

New York City’s Three Public Library Systems Unveil The Most Borrowed Books of 2021
December 21 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Incubator Pitch Competition Awards Nearly $90,000 to Support New Initiatives with Nine Community Partners from Around the Borough
December 20 2021
NYC Public Library Branches Partner with the NYC Test & Trace Corps to Provide Pediatric Vaccinations Against COVID-19
December 17 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Highlights Top Ten Moments of the Year, Including the One Billionth Checkout
December 07 2021
Librarian Nicole Bryan Named 2021 Empire Whole Health Hero
December 06 2021
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Launches Brooklyn Public Library’s 125th Anniversary With Proclamation in the New Civic Commons at Central Library in Grand Army Plaza
November 29 2021
Culture Pass Announces Top Prize in Citywide Library Book Display Contest
November 22 2021
TerrartNYC Wins Top Prize of $20,000 at Brooklyn Public Library’s PowerUP! Business Competition Ceremony
November 18 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2021 Literary Prize Winners
November 08 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Launches Self-Guided Walking Tour of Literary Brooklyn
November 01 2021
Brooklyn, New York, and Queens Public Library Systems’ Culture Pass Initiative Launches Book Display Contest Across All Five Boroughs
October 25 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2021 Shortlist for Seventh Annual Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
October 18 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Opens Adams Street Library
October 12 2021
One Fine Day: New York City’s Three Public Library Systems Eliminate Late Fines
October 05 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Names Nina Collins as New Board Chair
September 30 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces In-Person and Virtual Fall 2021 Arts and Culture Programming
September 24 2021
Newly Renovated Cortelyou Library Celebrates Reopening with Assembly Member Robert C. Carroll and Friends of Cortelyou Library
September 13 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces, in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance, Fourth Semester of Immigrant-Taught University Open Air
September 08 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2021 Longlist for Seventh Annual Literary Prize
August 26 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces Open Invitation to “People’s Ball”
July 13 2021
Statement on FY 22 Budget
July 01 2021
Brooklyn Public Library Announces In-Person and Virtual Arts and Cultural Programming through September 2021
June 29 2021