The Arverne branch was located at Beach 75th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Arverne, from 1915-1921. It moved to 488 Beach 66th Street in 1922, and was there until 1935. From 1951-1964, it was located at 339 Beach 54th Street, until it moved into its current location at 312 Beach 54th Street, Arverne in 1964.[2]
The Astoria branch was first opened on February 28, 1899, at 112 Fulton Avenue, Astoria, NY. In 1904, it moved to its current location at 1401 Astoria Boulevard.[2]
The Auburndale branch first opened in 1930 at 199-10 32nd Avenue, Auburndale. It was located at 200-15 32nd Ave from 1937-1952,[3] at 29-09 Francis Lewis Boulevard. 1952-1969, and 25-55 Francis Lewis Boulevard. from 1969 to the present.[2]
The Baisley Park branch first opened on June 25, 1935, at 116-03 Sutphin Boulevard, Baisley Park, and was at that location until 1970. On Dec 14, 1970, it moved to its present location, 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard., Baisley Park.[2]
The Bayside branch has moved four times; 1906-1911, Bell Avenue, near Palace Avenue, Bayside: 1912-1934, at Elsie Pl. and 1st St: 1935-1965, 39-28 Bell Boulevard, Bayside: and 1965-its present location.[2]
The Broadway branch first opened in 1906 at 37-19 Broadway Astoria, New York. It moved five subsequent times until it was relocated to 40-20 Broadway Astoria, on April 28, 1958, where it remains today.[2]
218-13 Linden Boulevard, Cambria Heights, NY 11411
The Cambria Heights branch first opened in July, 1949 on 220-20 Linden Boulevard, Cambria Heights. Since 2006, the branch has been at 218-13 Linden Boulevard, Cambria Heights.[2]
The Corona branch had its first days at 13 Locust Street, Corona, from 1912-1913. It has since moved five times to its present location at 38-23 104th Street, in March 1969.[2]
The Flushing branch first opened in January, 1902 at Jamaica Ave and Jagger Avenue. It moved 3 times until it settled at its present location in 1998 at 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, New York.[2]
The Forest Hills branch first opened in 1915 at 1 Station Sq, Forest Hills, NY. It moved 5 times until settling in its present location at 108-19 71st Ave in 1947.[2]
193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
The Fresh Meadows branch was located at 195-13 69th Avenue, from 1949-1958, until it moved to 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, Fresh Meadows, in 1958, and still remains today.[2]
The Glen Oaks branch has had two locations: From 1950-1956, it was at 256-25 Union Turnpike, Glen Oaks, NY, and from 1956–present it was just down the street at 256-04 Turnpike.[2]
The Glendale branch has had four locations, opening first in April 1911 at 123 Edison in Glendale, and presently occupying a location at 78-60 73rd Place.[2]
47-40 Center Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11109
The Hunters Point Community Library opened on September 24, 2019, more than 15 years after it was proposed. It is 22,000sqft (2,000m2) and 82 feet (25m) tall.[7]
The Jackson Heights branch has moved five times. It was opened in 1918, and has been at its current location at 35-51 81st Street, Jackson Heights, since 1954.[2]
The Langston Hughes branch first opened in 1969, and was open at that location until 1999. It moved to its current location at 100-01 Northern Boulevard in 1999.[2]
The McGoldrick branch was first opened in 1933. It was named for Father Edward McGoldrick, the founding pastor of the nearby Catholic parish of St. Andrew Avellino. Father McGoldrick, who died in 1930, had also been a member of the board of directors of the (then) Queens Borough Public Library. It has moved 3 times, and has been at its current location at 155-06 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing since 1974.[2]
72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, NY 11379
The Middle Village branch has moved seven times since it was opened in 1915. It has occupied its current location since 1990 at 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village.[2]
The North Hills branch has had two locations; the first from 11964-1987 at 245-24 Horace Harding Expressway, Glen Oaks, NY, and the second at 57-04 Marathon Parkway from 1987–present.[2]
The Rego Park branch has been open since 1937. It was moved 3 times, each time within the same block, and has been at its current location since March, 1975.[2]
Rosedale branch has moved four times. It was first opened in 1920, and has been at its present location at 144-20 243rd Street, Rosedale, since 1962.[2]
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Brooklyn is a borough of New York City. Located on the westernmost end of Long Island, it is coextensive with Kings County in the U.S. state of New York. With 2,736,074 residents as of the 2020 United States census, Kings County is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City and the most populous county in the State of New York. The population density of Brooklyn was 37,339.9 inhabitants per square mile (14,417.0/km2) in 2022, making it the second-most-densely-populated county in the United States, behind Manhattan, and it had the ninth-highest population of any county nationwide. Were Brooklyn still an independent city, it would be the fourth most populous in the U.S. after the rest of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is mainly composed of a large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis to the east; St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Rochdale Village to the southeast; South Jamaica to the south; Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park to the west; Briarwood to the northwest; and Kew Gardens Hills, Jamaica Hills, and Jamaica Estates to the north.
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. Like the two other public library systems in New York City, it is an independent nonprofit organization that is funded by the city and state governments, the federal government, and private donors. In marketing materials, the library styles its name as Bklyn Public Library.
The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year, and one of the largest in the country in terms of the size of its collection. According to its website, the library holds about 7.5 million items, of which 1.4 million are at its central library in Jamaica, Queens. It was named "2009 Library of the Year" by Library Journal.
Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bound by Hollis to the west, Cambria Heights to the south, Bellerose, Queens and Elmont, Nassau County to the east, and Oakland Gardens to the north.
Woodhaven is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered on the north by Park Lane South and Forest Park, on the east by Richmond Hill, on the south by Ozone Park and Atlantic Avenue, and the west by the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Atlantic Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It stretches from the Brooklyn waterfront on the East River all the way to Jamaica, Queens. Atlantic Avenue runs parallel to Fulton Street for much of its course through Brooklyn, where it serves as a border between the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights and Fort Greene and between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and between Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. This stretch of avenue is known for having a high rate of pedestrian fatalities and has been described as "the killing fields of the city."
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The Brooklyn Manor station was a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch located on the south side of Jamaica Avenue at 100th Street, straddling the border between Richmond Hill and Woodhaven in Queens, New York City. The station name referred to the nearby Brooklyn Manor section of Woodhaven, originally a 603-lot development bounded by Woodhaven Boulevard to the west, 96th/98th Streets to the east, Forest Park to the north, and Jamaica Avenue to the south. The station opened in January 1911, and was constructed as a replacement for the Brooklyn Hills station, which was located 3,000 feet (910 m) to the north. This station closed along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch in 1962, and was subsequently demolished.
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