We are providing a comprehensive directory of public libraries in New York 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 New York County.
1. Branch Library 115TH STREET BRANCH
Street Address: 203 West 115th Street, New York, NY 10026
Phone Number: (212) 531-3148 New York N/A N/A
2. Branch Library 125TH STREET BRANCH
Street Address: 224 East 125th Street, New York, NY 10035
Phone Number: (212) 534-7000 New York N/A N/A
3. Branch Library 58 STREET BRANCH LIBRARY
Street Address: 127 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022
Phone Number: (212) 759-7358 New York N/A N/A
4. Branch Library 67TH STREET BRANCH
Street Address: 328 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021
Phone Number: (212) 794-3910 New York N/A N/A
5. Branch Library 96TH STREET BRANCH
Street Address: 112 East 96th Street, New York, NY 10128
Phone Number: (212) 289-0909 New York N/A N/A
6. Branch Library AGUILAR BRANCH
Street Address: 174 East 110th Street, New York, NY 10029
Phone Number: (212) 860-4580 New York N/A N/A
7. Branch Library ANDREW HEISKELL BRAILLE & TALKING BOOK LIBRARY
Street Address: 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
Phone Number: (212) 206-5400 New York N/A N/A
8. Branch Library BLOOMINGDALE BRANCH
Street Address: 150 West 100th Street, New York, NY 10025
Phone Number: (212) 749-5240 New York N/A N/A
9. Branch Library CHATHAM SQUARE BRANCH
Street Address: 192 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
Phone Number: (212) 673-6197 New York N/A N/A
10. Branch Library COLUMBUS BRANCH
Street Address: 742 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Phone Number: (212) 586-5098 New York N/A N/A
11. Branch Library COUNTEE CULLEN BRANCH
Street Address: 104 West 136th Street, New York, NY 10030
Phone Number: (212) 491-2072 New York N/A N/A
12. Branch Library DONNELL LIBRARY CENTER
20 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone Number: (212) 621-0618 New York N/A N/A
13. Branch Library EPIPHANY BRANCH
Street Address: 288 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010
Phone Number: (212) 779-4624 New York N/A N/A
14. Branch Library FORT WASHINGTON BRANCH
Street Address: 535 West 179th Street, New York, NY 10033
Phone Number: (212) 740-8601 New York N/A N/A
15. Branch Library GEORGE BRUCE BRANCH
Street Address: 518 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
Phone Number: (212) 662-0416 New York N/A N/A
16. Branch Library HAMILTON FISH PARK BRANCH
Street Address: 415 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10020
Phone Number: (212) 673-2290 New York N/A N/A
17. Branch Library HAMILTON GRANGE BRANCH
Street Address: 503 West 145th Street, New York, NY 10031
Phone Number: (212) 926-2147 New York N/A N/A
18. Branch Library HARLEM BRANCH
Street Address: 9 West 124th Street, New York, NY 10027
Phone Number: (212) 348-5620 New York N/A N/A
19. Branch Library HUDSON PARK BRANCH
Street Address: 66 Leroy Street, New York, NY 10014
Phone Number: (212) 243-6876 New York N/A N/A
20. Branch Library INWOOD BRANCH
Street Address: 4790 Broadway, New York, NY 10034
Phone Number: (212) 927-5271 New York N/A N/A
21. Branch Library JEFFERSON MARKET BRANCH
Street Address: 425 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10011
Phone Number: (212) 242-5233 New York N/A N/A
22. Branch Library KIPS BAY BRANCH
Street Address: 446 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone Number: (212) 683-2520 New York N/A N/A
23. Branch Library MACOMB’S BRIDGE BRANCH
Street Address: 2650 Adam Clayton Powell JR. Blvd, New York, NY 10039
Phone Number: (212) 281-4900 New York N/A N/A
24. Branch Library MID-MANHATTAN LIBRARY
Street Address: 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone Number: (212) 340-0941 New York N/A N/A
25. Branch Library MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS BRANCH
Street Address: 2900 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
Phone Number: (212) 864-2530 New York N/A N/A
26. Branch Library MUHLENBERG BRANCH
Street Address: 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
Phone Number: (212) 206-5481 New York N/A N/A
27. Branch Library NEW AMSTERDAM BRANCH
Street Address: 9 Murray Street, New York, NY 10007
Phone Number: (212) 732-8815 New York N/A N/A
28. Branch Library NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Phone Number: (212) 870-1630 New York N/A N/A
29. Library System NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE BRANCH LIBRARIES
455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone Number: (212) 642-0120 New York 15,710,007 13,842,278
30. Branch Library OTTENDORFER BRANCH
Street Address: 135 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Phone Number: (212) 674-0947 New York N/A N/A
31. Branch Library RIVERSIDE BRANCH
Street Address: 127 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023
Phone Number: (212) 870-1811 New York N/A N/A
32. Branch Library ROOSEVELT ISLAND BRANCH
Street Address: 524 Main Street, New York, NY 10044
Phone Number: (212) 308-6243 New York N/A N/A
33. Branch Library SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
514 Malcolm X BLVD., New York, NY 10037
Phone Number: (212) 491-2200 New York N/A N/A
34. Branch Library SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS LIBRARY
Street Address: 188 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone Number: (212) 592-7000 New York N/A N/A
35. Branch Library SEWARD PARK BRANCH
Street Address: 192 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
Phone Number: (212) 477-6770 New York N/A N/A
36. Branch Library ST. AGNES BRANCH
Street Address: 444 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10024
Phone Number: (212) 799-6190 New York N/A N/A
37. Branch Library TERENCE CARDINAL COOKE-CATHEDRAL BRANCH
Street Address: 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Phone Number: (212) 752-3824 New York N/A N/A
38. Branch Library THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES LIBRARY
Street Address: Fifth Avenue And 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
Phone Number: (212) 930-0830 New York N/A N/A
39. Central Library THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Street Address: 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone Number: (212) 340-0941 New York N/A N/A
40. Branch Library TOMPKINS SQUARE BRANCH
Street Address: 331 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10009
Phone Number: (212) 228-4747 New York N/A N/A
41. Branch Library WASHINGTON HEIGHTS BRANCH
Street Address: 1000 ST. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10032
Phone Number: (212) 927-5271 New York N/A N/A
42. Branch Library WEBSTER BRANCH
Street Address: 1465 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Phone Number: (212) 288-5049 New York N/A N/A
43. Branch Library YORKVILLE BRANCH
Street Address: 222 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10021
Phone Number: (212) 744-5929 New York N/A N/A
Overview of Brooklyn
According to countryaah, Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. With about 2.5 million inhabitants, it would be the fourth largest city in the United States all by itself, were it a city. An independent city prior to 1898, Brooklyn developed out of the small Dutch-founded town of “Breuckelen” on the East River shore, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands.
Kings County, coterminous with Brooklyn, is also the most populous county in New York. It was named in honor of King Charles II of England.
Variously called the “City of Trees”, “City of Homes” or the “City of Churches” in the 19th century, Brooklyn is now often styled the “Borough of Homes and Churches.”
Geography
Brooklyn Borough in New York City
Brooklyn is located in the westernmost part of Long Island. It shares its only land boundary with Queens to the northeast. This boundary is defined in its westernmost section by Newtown Creek, crossed by Kosciusko Bridge and Pulaski Bridge, which flows into the East River.
Following the waterfront south and then counterclockwise from Newtown Creek, the lower East River forms the northern coast of Brooklyn, with connections to Manhattan at Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The western coast lies on Upper New York Bay and features the Red Hook peninsula and the Erie Basin, home to a container port, and separated from Governors Island by Buttermilk Channel. South of this is Gowanus Bay, connected to the Gowanus Canal. At its westernmost section, Brooklyn is closest to Staten Island at the Narrows, and the two are connected there by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which separates Upper and Lower New York Bays. The southern coast includes the peninsula encompassing Coney Island and Brighton Beach. The southeastern coast lies on island-filled Jamaica Bay and is connected to Rockaway by the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, named after the Brooklyn Dodgers’ first baseman who made his home in the borough.
The highest point of Brooklyn is the area around Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, rising approximately 200 feet above sea level. There is also a minor elevation in Downtown Brooklyn known as Brooklyn Heights.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the County has a total area of 251.0 km² (96.9 mi²). 182.9 km² (70.6 mi²) of it is land and 68.1 km² (26.3 mi²) of it is water. 27.13% of the total area is water.
History
Six Dutch Towns
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area that is today Brooklyn, a western part of Long Island then largely inhabited by the Canarsee Native American tribe. The area was considered a part of New Netherland, and the Dutch West India Company lost little time in chartering the six original towns (listed here first by their later, more common English names):
Gravesend: in 1645, settled under Dutch patent by Englishfollowers of Anabaptist Lady Deborah Moody
Brooklyn: as “Breuckelen” in 1646, after the town now spelled Breukelen, Netherlands
Flatlands: as “New Amersfoort” in 1647
Flatbush: as “Midwout” in 1652
New Utrecht: in 1657, after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands
Bushwick: as “Boswijck” in 1661
Toward a United City of Brooklyn
What is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, to become a part of the colony of New York.
The English organized the six old Dutch towns of southwestern Long Island as Kings County in 1683, one of twelve counties then established in New York. This was the first time that tract of land was ever recognized as a political entity, and laid the municipal groundwork for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity.
The Battle of Brooklyn was fought across Kings County
On August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) was the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War. British troops forced Continental troops off the heights near the modern site of Grand Army Plaza. The American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, leaving the British in control of New York Harbor.
The surrounding region was controlled by the British for the duration of the war, and the British military was largely supported by a dominant Loyalist sentiment in Kings County. New York only changed from a British colony to an American state with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
The first half of the 19th century saw the beginning of the development of urban areas on the economically strategic East River shore of Kings county, facing the adolescent City of New York confined to Manhattan Island.
The first center of urbanization sprung up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1816. Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834.
In parallel development, the Town of Bushwick, a little farther up the river, saw the incorporation of the Village of Williamsburgh in 1827, which separated as the Town of Williamsburgh in 1840, only to form the short-lived City of Williamsburgh in 1851.
But the East River shore was growing too fast for the three-year-old infant City of Williamsburgh, which, along with its Town of Bushwick hinterland, was subsumed within a greater City of Brooklyn in 1854.
Taking a thirty-year break from municipal expansionism, this well-situated coastal city established itself as the third-most-populous American city for much of the 19th century. As ‘Twin City’ to New York, it played a role in national affairs that is only now shadowed by its modern submergence into its old partner/rival.
Throughout this period the peripheral towns of Kings County, far from Manhattan and even urban Brooklyn, maintained their rustic independence. The only municipal change seen was the secession of the eastern section of the Town of Flatbush as the Town of New Lots in 1852. The building of rail links like the Brighton Beach Line in 1878 heralded the end of this isolation.
The City of Brooklyn thrived in the 1890s, with consolidation in Kings County and Greater New York
Toward the end of the 19th century, the City of Brooklyn experienced its final, explosive growth spurt. In the space of a decade, it annexed the Town of New Lots in 1886, the Town of Flatbush, the Town of Gravesend, and the Town of New Utrecht in 1894, and the Town of Flatlands in 1896.
Brooklyn had reached its natural municipal boundaries at the ends of Kings County. The question was now whether it was prepared to engage in the still-grander process of consolidation now developing throughout the region.
Brooklyn as New York Borough
In 1898, Brooklyn joined with Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Richmond (later Staten Island) as the five boroughs to form the modern City of Greater New York. Kings County retained its status as one of New York State’s counties.
Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
Skyline of Downtown Brooklyn seen from the East River
Brooklyn, the ‘Borough of Homes’, can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times. The borough’s striking diversity plays host to a bustle of ethnic and multi-ethnic neighborhoods that both preserve a flavor of ‘the old country’, of whatever latitude, and create spaces for interaction between individuals and communities. So for illustration, Borough Park is largely Orthodox Jewish, Bedford-Stuyvesant African American, Bensonhurst Italian American, and Sunset Park Hispanic.
Most sections of Brooklyn are indeed decidedly residential, fulfilling the borough’s historic role as ‘bedroom of New York’. This symbiotic mating of the residential city with the business center of Manhattan has profoundly shaped Brooklyn from its beginning, and only accelerated with the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and other connections, to the near-death of Brooklyn industries and a winnowing of commerce to a basic consumer level in the years following World War II. It is only at the start of the 21st century that business and industry have begun to revive around the borough amid something of a general renaissance.
Many Brooklyn ethnic neighborhoods established in the first half of the 20th century developed as offshoots of second-generation Americans escaping the slums of Manhattan. Today, however, new immigrants are just as likely to set down their first American roots in Brooklyn. The constant inward movement of new immigrant groups, as well as the expanding horizons of longer-established groups, set a dynamism on the map of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods.
In recent years a series of artists’ colonies have developed along the East River across from Manhattan as a refuge for artists fleeing the sky-high rents of SoHo. Such was the development of the artistic community in Williamsburg, with consequent recent rent hikes there spurring a further exodus, to DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and even to Red Hook.
Borough and state government buildings are mostly found in the Brooklyn Civic Center area (including Brooklyn Borough Hall and Kings County Supreme Court) in downtown Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,465,326 people, 880,727 households, and 583,922 families residing in the County. The population density is 13,480/km² (34,920/mi²). There are 930,866 housing units at an average density of 5,090/km² (13,180/mi²). The racial makeup of the County is 41.20% White, 36.44% Black or African American, 0.41% Native American, 7.54% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 10.08% from other races, and 4.27% from two or more races. 19.79% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. 34.7% of the population are Whites not of Hispanic origins.
In the 2000 Census, the following percentages of Brooklyn residents self-reported these European ancestries:
Italian: 9.41%
Irish: 3.70%
German: 1.81%
English: 1.19%
According to an estimate of the Census Bureau, population increased to 2,472,523 in 2003.
There are 880,727 households out of which 33.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.6% are married couples living together, 22.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% are non-families. 27.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.75 and the average family size is 3.41.
In the County the population is spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 88.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.1 males.
The median income for a household in the County is $32,135, and the median income for a family is $36,188. Males have a median income of $34,317 versus $30,516 for females. The per capita income for the County is $16,775. 25.1% of the population and 22.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 34.0% of those under the age of 18 and 21.5% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
