Services for Older Adults at BPL offers inclusive programming and services tailored to our patrons over the age of 50, including lectures, films, performances and educational programs that reflect the wide interests of today’s older adults.
While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts, Zoom meetings, and streaming from our branch staff!
Monthly teleconference and online courses for those who are homebound or living in senior residences or nursing homes.
Multi-session art workshops for patrons ages 50 and older, led by a professional teaching artist.
OSOS is an ongoing oral history project exploring Brooklyn from the words of its residents.
More Services from BPL
We supply reading and viewing materials to older adults in nursing homes, senior centers and adult day-care centers. Materials include books in English and other languages (some in large print), DVDs and audiobooks. Books-to-Go Application
This fast, convenient service provides books, audiobooks and videos to people who are homebound or have a visual disability. Books by Mail Application
We reach beyond the Library to visit street fairs, senior residences, nursing homes, hospice care and more. Throughout Brooklyn, we host cultural programs, speakers and presenters at senior sites.
Events & Classes
Staff Picks
- History of NYC
- NYC Picture Books
The colossus of New York : a city in thirteen partsWhitehead, Colson, 1969-
Inside the Apple : a streetwise history of New York CityNevius, Michelle.
Tenements, towers & trash : an unconventional illustrated history of New York CityWertz, Julia.
Nonstop metropolis : a New York City atlas
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New YorkCaro, Robert A.
A history of New York in 101 objectsRoberts, Sam, 1947-
Abuela /by Arthur Dorros ; illustrated by Elisa Kleven.
Another night at the museum /Milan Trenc.
The lonely phonebooth /by Peter Ackerman ; illustrations by Max Dalton.
A walk in New York /Salvatore Rubbino.
Down in the subway /story by Miriam Cohen ; pictures by Melanie Hope Greenberg.
Cool Daddy Rat /Kristyn Crow ; illustrated by Mike Lester.
Ollie :by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
Me and Momma and Big John /Mara Rockliff ; illustrated by William Low.
Chicken and Cat /by Sara Varon.
Knuffle Bunny :by Mo Willems.
You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museum /story by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman ; pictures by Robin Preiss Glasser.
My taxi ride /Paul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender ; illustrations by Selina Alko.
B is for Brooklyn /by Selina Alko.
Lyle, Lyle, crocodile.
How little Lori visited Times Square /written by Amos Vogel ; pictures by Maurice Sendak.
Kay Thompson's Eloise :drawings by Hilary Knight.
The gardener /Sarah Stewart ; pictures by David Small.
Madlenka /Peter Sâis.
Blackout /by John Rocco.
In the night kitchen /Maurice Sendak ; [lettering by Diana Blair].
A teeny, tiny baby /Amy Schwartz.
Tar Beach /Faith Ringgold.
Wow! :by Puck ; art by Rey David Rojas.
Twenty-one elephants and still standing /written by April Jones Prince ; illustrated by Franðcois Roca.
Subway /Christoph Niemann.
Chinatown /William Low.
Little Toot /pictures and story by Hardie Gramatky.
Mermaids on parade /Melanie Hope Greenberg.
The man who walked between the towers /Mordicai Gerstein.
Pet of the Met /by Lydia and Don Freeman.
Uptown /Bryan Collier.
The curious garden /by Peter Brown.
The adventures of taxi dog /by Debra and Sal Barracca ; pictures by Mark Buehner.