Brownsville Library has served patrons for more than 100 years. Today, the branch is a popular resource for resume and career help. Its laptops are always in high demand, and children frequent the library’s Homework Help and ProjectArt programs, among others, when school is out.
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Staff Picks
- NYC Picture Books
- Brooklyn History & Memoirs
Abuelaby Arthur Dorros ; illustrated by Elisa Kleven.
Another night at the museumMilan Trenc.
The lonely phoneboothby Peter Ackerman ; illustrations by Max Dalton.
A walk in New YorkSalvatore Rubbino.
Down in the subwaystory by Miriam Cohen ; pictures by Melanie Hope Greenberg.
Cool Daddy RatKristyn Crow ; illustrated by Mike Lester.
Ollieby Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
Me and Momma and Big JohnMara Rockliff ; illustrated by William Low.
Chicken and Catby Sara Varon.
Knuffle Bunnyby Mo Willems.
You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museumstory by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman ; pictures by Robin Preiss Glasser.
My taxi ridePaul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender ; illustrations by Selina Alko.
B is for Brooklynby Selina Alko.
Lyle, Lyle, crocodile.
How little Lori visited Times Squarewritten by Amos Vogel ; pictures by Maurice Sendak.
Kay Thompson's Eloisedrawings by Hilary Knight.
The gardenerSarah Stewart ; pictures by David Small.
MadlenkaPeter Sâis.
Blackoutby John Rocco.
In the night kitchenMaurice Sendak ; [lettering by Diana Blair].
A teeny, tiny babyAmy Schwartz.
Tar BeachFaith Ringgold.
Wow!by Puck ; art by Rey David Rojas.
Twenty-one elephants and still standingwritten by April Jones Prince ; illustrated by Franðcois Roca.
SubwayChristoph Niemann.
ChinatownWilliam Low.
Little Tootpictures and story by Hardie Gramatky.
Mermaids on paradeMelanie Hope Greenberg.
The man who walked between the towersMordicai Gerstein.
Pet of the Metby Lydia and Don Freeman.
UptownBryan Collier.
The curious gardenby Peter Brown.
The adventures of taxi dogby Debra and Sal Barracca ; pictures by Mark Buehner.
Song of Brooklynby Marc Eliot.
I remember BrooklynRalph Monti.
Two cents plainMartin Lemelman.
February houseSherill Tippins.
The Three Graces of Raymond StreetRobert E. Murphy.
In the country of BrooklynPeter Golenbock.
Brooklyn's promised landJudith Wellman.
The great bridgeDavid McCullough.
Brooklyn by nameLeonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss.
The Brooklyn nobody knowsWilliam B. Helmreich.
Prospect ParkDavid P. Colley ; photography by Elizabeth Keegin Colley.