Group heads to court to fight sale of Brooklyn Heights Library
A Brooklyn advocacy group is headed to court on Friday in a last-ditch effort to block the sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library to a developer.
A lawsuit filed by the group Love Brooklyn Libraries, Inc., headed by Brooklyn resident Marsha Rimler, will be heard by Justice Jiminez-Salta at state Supreme Court in Brooklyn in room 479 at 9:30 a.m.
After three years of controversy, the library sale was approved by the City Council in December and the Brooklyn Borough Board in March.
The branch has already begun moving books out of the building, located at 280 Cadman Plaza West. An interim library, to be located at Our Lady of Lebanon Church, 95 Remsen St., will open in July, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) says. Construction is scheduled to begin this year, and will take three to four years.