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.
Multi-session art workshops for patrons ages 50 and older, led by a professional teaching artist.
Learn how to bowl virtually using a Microsoft Xbox One, and then compete against each other during fun monthly tournaments.
Classes at every branch that connect older adults to the world of technology.
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 offer monthly teleconference and online courses for those who are homebound or living in senior residences or nursing homes. Call 877.819.9147 or register online to sign up through our partner at DOROT University Without Walls.
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.
Contact Us
We are available to help connect older adults, their families and caregivers to high-quality resources available in Brooklyn and beyond. If you are in search of information on health care, housing, education, veterans services and more, call 718.236.1760 or email [email protected].
Services for Older Adults is partially funded by Coordinated Outreach Library Services aid from the New York State Education Department, administered by the State Library’s Division of Library Development. All programs are sponsored by Brooklyn Public Library’s Department of Outreach Services.
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Acknowledgements
Services for Older Adults is partially funded by Coordinated Outreach Library Services aid from the NYS Education Department, administered by the State Library’s Division of Library Development. All programs are sponsored by BPL’s Department of Outreach Services, which was established with the generous support of The Charles H. Revson Foundation.
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.