Hours
| Monday | 10 am - 6 pm |
| Tuesday | 1 pm - 8 pm |
| Wednesday | 10 am - 6 pm |
| Thursday | 10 am - 8 pm |
| Friday | 10 am - 6 pm |
| Saturday | 10 am - 5 pm |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
Address & Contact
1000 Utica Ave.
Fully accessible
234
B35B46
718.566.0053
Managing Librarian
Stefanie SinnAmenities
Located two blocks from the childhood home of Jackie Robinson and within walking distance of the world’s first solar-powered home, Rugby Library is a beloved civic institution in East Flatbush. When Rugby opened in 1957, its interior was perhaps the most colorful of any library in New York, with modern furniture in bright reds, yellows and blues. The branch still catches the eye of visitors, including those who attend Story Time and Ready Math, two of its most popular programs.
Upcoming Events
Kids Create : Confetti Poppers
Mon, Jun 16 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Neighborhood Tech Help
Tue, Jun 17 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Mandala Tuesdays
Tue, Jun 17 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Rugby Anime Club
Tue, Jun 17 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Juneteenth Sip and Paint (Sparkling…
Wed, Jun 18 1:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Sit and be Fit
Fri, Jun 20 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Teen Time: Scratch Art
Fri, Jun 20 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Make Music New York @ Rugby Library
Sat, Jun 21 10:30am
Rugby Library
Saturday Storytime
Sat, Jun 21 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Kids Create : Summer Solstice
Mon, Jun 23 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Neighborhood Tech Help
Tue, Jun 24 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Mandala Tuesdays
Tue, Jun 24 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Book Discussion - "It Starts with…
Tue, Jun 24 4:00pm
Rugby, Small Conference Room
Rugby Anime Club
Tue, Jun 24 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Resume Workshop
Wed, Jun 25 11:00am
Rugby Library
Story Play
Thu, Jun 26 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Making Personalized Bookmarks on the…
Thu, Jun 26 11:30am
Rugby Library
Business Help for Immigrants (Rugby)
Thu, Jun 26 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Legos + Games
Thu, Jun 26 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Sit and be Fit
Fri, Jun 27 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Staff Picks
- May is Jewish American Heritage Month: YA Recommendations
- Asian-American and Pacific Island Heritage Month
- BKLYN: Tony Nominees 2025
- For New Grads: Advice on Work, Life, and Figuring Out Adulthood
- Pride Month 2025 Recommended Reads
The librarian of Auschwitz
My fine fellow
The ghosts of Rose Hill
Once more with chutzpah
How to excavate a heart
Salt & honey : Jewish teens on feminism,...
It's my whole life : Charlotte Salomon : an artist...
The life and crimes of Hoodie Rosen
Ethel's song : Ethel Rosenberg's life in poems : a...
Heroines, rescuers, rabbis, spies : unsung women...
Some kind of hate
When the angels left the old country
When the world was ours
The city beautiful
We survived the Holocaust : the Bluma & Felix...
Planning perfect
Lion's legacy
Margo Zimmerman gets the girl
Imogen, Obviously
From dust, a flame
Before we were blue
The last words we said
The making of Asian America : a history
Asian American literature : an encyclopedia for...
Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten...
The Asian Pacific American experience
America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in...
Making a global immigrant neighborhood :...
Conditional citizens : on belonging in America
From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of...
Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
The next American revolution : sustainable...
Living for change : an autobiography
They called us enemy
The Chinese in America : a narrative history
The Central Asian states : then and now
Asian independence leaders
Yo-Yo Ma
Vera Wang
Kamala Harris : history-making US Vice President
Shine, coconut moon
Necessary roughness
Good enough
Crazy rich Asians
Stories for South Asian super girls
This place is still beautiful
Loveboat, Taipei
A thousand beginnings and endings : 16 retellings...
Hungry ghost
Lovely, dark, and deep
Boys I know
Christmas clash
Downstairs Girl
Permanent record
Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating
Café con lychee
The silence that binds us
Beating Heart Baby
Untold : defining moments of the uprooted
The henna wars
A taste for love
Children of the river
Damselfly
Super fake love song
How we fall apart
Rent a boyfriend
The epic crush of Genie Lo
The surprising power of a good dumpling
There's something about Sweetie
Lucy and Linh
Shadow of the Batgirl
I'll be the one
The astonishing color of after
My so-called Bollywood life
Burmese moons
A path of stars
Throwback
David Tung can't have a girlfriend until he gets...
Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese...
Our wayward fate
Love, dance & egg rolls
Girls of storm and shadow
Brown boy nowhere
Days of infamy : how a century of bigotry led to...
The Korean kimchi cookbook : 78 fiery recipes for...
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
Skunk girl
Barbarians and the birth of Chinese identity : the...
Japan meets the world : the birth of a super power
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Wives like us
Cannibalism : a perfectly natural history
These violent delights
One piece. Vol. 1 : romance dawn
Death of a salesman : certain private...
Louis Armstrong : jazz legend
Kate in waiting
Shut up, this is serious
Vaccine wars : the two-hundred-year fight for...
The queens of New York
Wild minds : the artists and rivalries that...
Operation Mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizarre...
Stranger things: Runaway Max
Mary Todd Lincoln
American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and...
Edward R. Murrow : an American original
Only this beautiful moment
The picture of Dorian Gray
Civil rights movement
Bobby Darin : a life
Trapped! : the story of Floyd Collins
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
One Italian summer
Say a little prayer
The last outlaws : the desperate final days of the...
Firefly home
Self-love potions : herbal rituals and recipes to...
Havana : a subtropical delirium
Finding work you love : 3 steps to getting the...
The prepared graduate : find your dream job, live...
What color is your parachute? 2021 : your guide to...
Life skills : how to cook, clean, manage money,...
A field guide to grad school : uncovering the...
Adulting : how to become a grown-up in 535...
Teen guide to side gigs : Working in the new...
Financial adulting : everything you need to know...
Your turn : how to be an adult
Your turn : how to be an adult
Adulthood for beginners : all the life secrets...
And then we grew up : on creativity, potential,...
Hi, just a quick question : queries, advice, and...
The rocket years : how your twenties launch the...
Mastering adulthood : go beyond adulting to become...
Recalculating : navigate your career through the...
Student's federal career guide : ten steps to a...
Becoming an academic : how to get through grad...
...And then you die of dysentery : lessons in...
Personal finance in your 20s and 30s
Post grad : five women and their first year out of...
The generation myth : why when you're born matters...
Zconomy : how Gen Z will change the future of...
The new world economy : a beginner's guide :...
Ask a manager : how to navigate clueless...
Finance for the people : getting a grip on your...
College admissions during COVID : how to navigate...
Paying for college
One day in June : a story inspired by the life and...
What I must tell the world : how Lorraine...
Athlete is agender : true stories of LGBTQ+ people...
Buckle up!
The Queen Bees of Tybee County
The ribbon skirt : a graphic novel
Glitch girl!
A world worth saving
Flamboyants : the queer Harlem renaissance I wish...
Libertad
You and me on repeat
Unbecoming : a novel & self-help guide
They bloom at night
Becoming who we are : real stories about growing...
Love points to you
These vengeful gods
A constellation of minor bears
Togetha
Time and time again
The sapling cage
A Body More Tolerable
Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Heavyweight : a family story of the Holocaust,...
Sage
Emerald road
Amplitudes : stories of queer and trans futurity
Make Room for Love
Coexistence : stories
A/S/L
Realistic fiction
Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre...
How to tell when we will die : on pain,...
The Einstein of Sex : Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld,...