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Brooklyn Public Library hosted more than 4,000 guests for Night in the Library

March 20 | Special from Brooklyn Public Library

GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library hosted the eighth annual Night in the Library over the weekend, keeping the doors open from 7 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday. Participants joined leading thinkers, scientists, writers, activists, and artists in a marathon of performances, debates, music, readings, and lectures, all addressing the theme, “Out of […]

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Brooklyn Public Library hosted more than 4,000 guests for Night in the Library

March 20 | Special from Brooklyn Public Library

GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library hosted the eighth annual Night in the Library over the weekend, keeping the doors open from 7 p.m. Saturday, March 16, to 2 a.m. Sunday, March 17. Participants joined leading thinkers, scientists, writers, activists, and artists in a marathon of performances, debates, music, readings, and lectures, all addressing […]

When skaters exit the elevated park, many of the good skaters will come down this stairway adjacent to one of the entrances to the Brooklyn Public Library. This is a potential danger point, as many children use this entrance to the library.Photos: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Eagle

‘This is going to be a nightmare’:
‘Skate Garden’ proposed for Brooklyn’s Mt. Prospect Park met with public resistance       

February 9 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — If you build it, they won’t come. In an exclusive interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, local residents of Prospect Heights expressed collective outrage, vehemently disagreeing with the proposed idea to build a 40,000-square-foot skate park in their backyard. Slated to be entitled the “Brooklyn Skate Garden,” positioned in the middle of Brooklyn’s […]