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Laptop Loan
For more information about laptops for use in the library, visit our laptop loan page.
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Return library materials
Return your BPL library materials during open hours.
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After-hours Returns
Return your BPL materials in our exterior book drop when the branch is closed.
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Meeting Rooms
To see available spaces, review BPL’s meeting room policy, and request a reservation, visit our room reservation website.
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Extended Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi signal that can reach up to 300 feet outside the library, available 24/7; learn more about Bklyn Reach.
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The predecessor to New Lots Library was a community library organized in 1942 by the Women’s Club of the East New York Y. The branch became part of Brooklyn Public Library in 1949, opening in a storefront on New Lots Avenue. Today, New Lots Library provides patrons of all ages with a wide range of free programs and resources. Among the branch’s best-known features is a learning center that helps adults develop literacy skills to meet their personal, educational and employment goals. Many of the learning center students at New Lots have crossed oceans and continents to make their homes in Brooklyn, while others have lived in New York City all their lives. All are welcomed and treated with respect at New Lots Library, and their work is celebrated in BPL initiatives like New Expressions, an annual collection of fiction, memoir, poetry and essays from beginning adult readers and writers. Staff at New Lots Library take great satisfaction in contributing to an institution that is essential to the life and vitality of the neighborhood it serves.
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Upcoming Exhibition
Three Lots
June 28, 2023 to July 28, 2023Design Trust for Public Space (DTPS), in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library is pleased to present a suite of photographs at the New Lots library, centered on land use in the East New York neighborhood, by Elliot Golden, this year's Photo Urbanism Fellow at DTPS.
3 Lots – Artist Statement
Vacant land is unevenly distributed across a city....
Staff Picks
- NYC Picture Books
- History of NYC
The adventures of taxi dogDebra Barracca
The curious gardenPeter Brown
UptownBryan Collier
Pet of the MetLydia Freeman
The man who walked between the towersMordicai Gerstein
Mermaids on paradeMelanie Hope Greenberg
Little TootHardie Gramatky
ChinatownWilliam Low
SubwayChristoph Niemann
Twenty-one elephants and still standingApril Jones Prince
Wow! : New York CityPuck
Tar BeachFaith Ringgold
A teeny, tiny babyAmy Schwartz
In the night kitchenMaurice Sendak
BlackoutJohn Rocco
MadlenkaPeter Sís
The gardenerSarah Stewart
Kay Thompson's Eloise : a book for precocious grown upsKay Thompson
How little Lori visited Times SquareAmos Vogel
Lyle, Lyle, crocodile.Bernard Waber
B is for BrooklynSelina Alko
My taxi ridePaul DuBois Jacobs
You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan MuseumJacqueline Preiss Weitzman
Knuffle Bunny : a cautionary taleMo Willems
Chicken and CatSara Varon
Me and Momma and Big JohnMara Rockliff
Ollie : the purple elephantJarrett Krosoczka
Cool Daddy RatKristyn Crow
Down in the subwayMiriam Cohen
A walk in New YorkSalvatore Rubbino
The lonely phoneboothPeter Ackerman
Another night at the museumMilan Trenc
AbuelaArthur Dorros
A history of New York in 101 objectsSam Roberts
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New YorkRobert A Caro
Nonstop metropolis : a New York City atlas
Tenements, towers & trash : an unconventional illustrated history of New York CityJulia Wertz
Inside the Apple : a streetwise history of New York CityMichelle Nevius
The colossus of New York : a city in thirteen partsColson Whitehead