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Laptop Loan
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Meeting Rooms
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Adams Street Library is BPL’s 60th and first new branch built since 1983. The library serves all New Yorkers and visitors but especially the Vinegar Hill, DUMBO and Farragut communities. The new library is located on the ground floor of a former factory building at 9 Adams St, fronting Brooklyn Bridge Park with stunning views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and downtown Manhattan.
Adams Street Library offers 6,565 square feet of space, with library materials, meeting rooms, facilities and programming areas for children, teens and adults. The library's design and its programming were shaped by comprehensive community feedback gathered over several months.
StoryWalk® at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Did you know you can read and learn by walking through the park? Visit our StoryWalk, which starts at the Main Street Playground in Brooklyn Bridge Park, to read and explore with your child.
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Staff Picks
- National Poetry Month (for adults)
- National Poetry Month (for kids)
- Earth Day 2022
- Pre-K Books on Water
- Brooklyn Waterfront
The complete poetryMaya Angelou
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetryBarbara Kingsolver
Garden physicSylvia Legris
Swimming lessons : poemsLili Reinhart
Homie : poemsDanez Smith
Dearly : new poemsMargaret Atwood
I want to be where the normal people areRachel Bloom
Black girl, call homeJasmine Mans
Return flight : poemsJennifer Huang
Resistencia : poems of protest and revolution
The wild fox of Yemen : poemsThrea Almontaser
100 poems to break your heart
Earth keeper : reflections on the American landN Scott Momaday
Light for the world to seeKwame Alexander
Broken land : poems of Brooklyn
Sing a song of seasons
Hard-boiled bugs for breakfast : and other tasty poemsJack Prelutsky
A beautiful day in the neighborhood : the poetry of Mister RogersFred Rogers
Poems aloudJoseph Coelho
Cast away : poems for our timeNaomi Shihab Nye
Sweet people are everywhereAlice Walker
Can I touch your hair? : poems of race, mistakes, and friendshipIrene Latham
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem RenaissanceNikki Grimes
Woke : a young poet's call to justiceMahogany L Browne
I, too, am AmericaLangston Hughes
Thanku : poems of gratitude
Tails from the animal shelterStephanie Shaw
Rhyme schemerK A Holt
A place inside of me : a poem to heal the heartZetta Elliott
Dictionary for a better world : poems, quotes, and anecdotes from A to ZIrene Latham
Every day is Earth DayJane O'Connor
Planet EarthTom Jackson
Earth hour : a lights-out event for our planetNanette Heffernan
Climate changeJohn Woodward
Planet SOS : 22 modern monsters threatening our environment (and what you can do to defeat them!)Marie G Rohde
The Atlas Obscura explorer's guide for the world's most adventurous kidDylan Thuras
I am kindSuzy Capozzi
Here and nowJulia Denos
What is climate change?Gail Herman
What a wasteJess French
OilJonah Winter
How to change everything : the young human's guide to protecting the planet and each otherNaomi Klein
Who is Greta Thunberg?Jill Leonard
Climate change and rising sea levelsKevin Kurtz
Climate change and air qualityLinda Crotta Brennan
Climate change and extreme stormsMary Dykstra
Garden Day!Candice F Ransom
When rain fallsMelissa Stewart
Who sank the boat?Pamela Allen
What is a solid?Jennifer Boothroyd
What is a liquid?Jennifer Boothroyd
What is a gas?Jennifer Boothroyd
What floats in a moat?Lynne Berry
Water rolls, water risesPat Mora
Water is water : a book about the water cycleMiranda Paul
Water cycleMonica Hughes
WaterDaniel Nunn
Thunder cakePatricia Polacco
Thunder cakePatricia Polacco
Things that float and things that don'tDavid A Adler
SwimmyLeo Lionni
SwimmyLeo Lionni
Stone soupHeather Forest
Stone soupHeather Forest
Splish, splash! : a book about rainJosepha Sherman
Snowflake BentleyJacqueline Briggs Martin
The snowflake : a water cycle storyNeil Waldman
Snow is fallingFranklyn M (Franklyn Mansfield) Branley
Save water every dayMari C Schuh
Save water every dayMari C Schuh
Raindrops rollApril Pulley Sayre
The rainbow fishMarcus Pfister
RainRobert Kalan
First big book of the oceanCatherine D Hughes
Little Bird takes a bathMarisabina Russo
Listen to the rainBill Martin
It's raining!Gail Gibbons
It looked like spilt milkCharles Green Shaw
It looked like spilt milkCharles Green Shaw
Follow the water from brook to oceanArthur Dorros
A drop of water : a book of science and wonderWalter Wick
Down, down, down : a journey to the bottom of the seaSteve Jenkins
Down comes the rainFranklyn M (Franklyn Mansfield) Branley
Does it sink or float?Susan Hughes
Curious George rides a bikeH A (Hans Augusto) Rey
Curious George rides a bikeH A (Hans Augusto) Rey
A cool drink of waterBarbara Kerley
Come on, Rain!Karen Hesse
Cloudy with a chance of meatballsJudi Barrett
Cloudy with a chance of meatballsJudi Barrett
Change it! : solids, liquids, gases and youAdrienne Mason
Boats float!George Ella Lyon
BlizzardJohn Rocco
Anna carries waterOlive Senior
All the worldElizabeth Garton Scanlon
10 little rubber ducksEric Carle
10 little rubber ducksEric Carle
Water danceThomas Locker
Water can be--Laura Purdie Salas
SnowUri Shulevitz
Rain!Linda Ashman
FloatDaniel Miyares
Coney Island : 40 Years, 1970-2010Harvey Stein
Coney IslandLaura Jean Hoffman
The lost tribe of Coney Island : headhunters, Luna Park, and the man who pulled off the spectacle of the centuryClaire (Journalist) Prentice
Good old Coney Island : a sentimental journey into the past : the most rambunctious, scandalous, rapscallion, splendiferous, pugnacious, spectacular, illustrious, prodigious, frolicsome island on earthEdo McCullough
Coney Island : lost and foundCharles Denson
Images of Red Hook, BrooklynThomas Rupolo
Brooklyn's Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton : a photographic journey, 1870-1970Brian Merlis
Brooklyn noir 3 : nothing but the truth
Brooklyn noir 2
Brooklyn noir
The Brooklyn Navy YardJohn Bartelstone
The last bohemia : scenes from the life of Williamsburg, BrooklynRobert Anasi
Last exit to BrooklynHubert Selby
Sailor Twain ; or, The mermaid in the HudsonMark Siegel
The accidental playground : Brooklyn waterfront narratives of the undesigned and unplannedDaniel Campo
On the waterfront : the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that inspired the classic movie and transformed the New York HarborMalcolm M (Malcolm Malone) Johnson
On the waterfrontBudd Schulberg