We are providing a comprehensive directory of public libraries in Kings County, NY. This list includes library formal name, street address, postal code, phone number and how many books are available. Check the following list to see all public libraries in New York Kings County.
7. Branch Library BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
280 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone Number: (718) 623-7100 Kings N/A N/A
8. Library System BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Street Address: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Phone Number: (718) 230-2403 Kings 15,370,209 10,884,302
9. Central Library BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Street Address: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Phone Number: (718) 230-2403 Kings N/A N/A
10. Branch Library BROWER PARK
725 ST. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Phone Number: (718) 773-7208 Kings N/A N/A
63. Branch Library WINDSOR TERRACE
160 East 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11218
Phone Number: (718) 686-9707 Kings N/A N/A
Kings County: law and government
Like the other counties which are contained within New York City, there is no separate county government per se though there is a Borough President’s office that is part of New York City government and various Community Boards that have authority over specific neighborhoods. Democrat Marty Markowitz is currently Borough President. Unlike other counties outside New York City, County Courts do not exist there; they have been replaced by New York City Civil Court that deals with small claims, lawsuits under $25,000 and housing cases. Other state offices such as the district attorney (public prosecutor) are organized as in other non-New York City counties.
Sports and Recreation
Baseball
Brooklyn has been a hotbed of baseball going back to the sport’s infancy. A box score from October 21, 1845, lists a game between the New York Base Ball Club and “Brooklyn Players”. The New York Base Ball Club was one of the first to play under rules codified by Alexander Cartwright.
With the advent of professional baseball in 1871, Brooklyn hosted three teams in the first pro league, the National Association: the New York Mutuals, the Brooklyn Eckfords, and the Brooklyn Atlantics. All three played at Union Grounds in Williamsburg. The Mutuals also used the field in 1876, the first year of the new National League; so did the Hartfords of Brooklyn in 1877.
Brooklyn’s most famous team, the Dodgers, got its start in 1884 in the American Association, calling themselves the Bridegrooms and playing at the first of three venues called Washington Park. The team moved to the National League in 1890 and relocated to Ebbets Field in 1913. In the years prior to 1932, they were also known as the Superbas and the Robins, the last an informal name taken from their manager, Wilbert Robinson. In 1955, the Dodgers won their first and only World Series in Brooklyn, beating their longtime rival, the New York Yankees, resulting in mass euphoria and celebrations all over Brooklyn. Just two years later, the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, California, after the 1957 season, causing widespread resentment and sorrow. Brooklyn’s most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
In addition, the Brooklyn Wonders of the Players League in 1890 and the Brook-Feds of the Federal League in 1914 and 1915 called the borough home.
After a 43-year hiatus, baseball returned to the borough in the form of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league team that began playing on Coney Island in 2001. The Cyclones are a Single A affiliate of the New York Mets Major League Baseball team. The Cyclones play at Keyspan Park, located in southern Brooklyn near the Coney Island boardwalk. During hot summer nights, fireworks are sometimes used to signify the commencement of the baseball games.
Football
Several professional football teams have called Brooklyn home, including two in 1926. The Brooklyn Horsemen of the original American Football League and the Brooklyn Lions of the National Football League competed for a time before merging in November and folding at season’s end.
In 1930, the Brooklyn Dodgers began play at Ebbets Field. The team lasted until 1944, calling themselves the Brooklyn Tigers that last season but going winless and leaving the NFL.
The second AFL also had a Brooklyn Tigers club in 1936; it played seven games before folding.
In 1946, the new All-America Football Conference had yet another Brooklyn Dodgers team. This club lasted until 1948, after which it merged with the New York Yankees football team.
Finally, there was an independent minor league team called the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Continental Football League in 1966. They played a 14-game schedule and then folded as well.
Basketball
On January 23, 2004, developer Bruce Ratner announced that he had purchased the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. He plans to move the Nets to a new, 20,000-seat Brooklyn Nets Arena as part of a development called at the Atlantic Yards at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. Brooklyn is also receiving a team in the new American Basketball Association in 2005. They will be called the ‘Heat’.
Symbols and Nicknames
The Dutch language motto is Een Draght Mackt Maght, after that of the United Dutch Provinces, usually translated as In Unity, There is Strength. The motto is displayed on the civic seal and flag, which also feature a young robed woman bearing fasces, a traditional emblem of republicanism.
Residents of Brooklyn are known as Brooklynites, and their sometimes distinctive Brooklyn accent has been jokingly labeled Brooklynese.
