All Brooklyn Libraries Will Soon Open 6 Days a Week: Here Are Their New Hours

Updated at the bottom with a full list of library hours.

Remember when the mayor and all the city councilmembers held that big, proud press conference at City Hall in June to make a big, proud fuss about how every library in New York City now had the budget to stay open six days a week?

Well, it took some pushing and pulling, but it looks like those funds finally went through this month.

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) officials announced on Wednesday that, beginning Oct. 19, the library system will ”dramatically expand its hours of service across the borough... thanks to an increased investment of $12 million in Brooklyn’s libraries made by the Mayor and City Council in the 2016 budget.”

All Brooklyn libraries will now be open six days a week.

Better still, the following libraries will be open seven days a week:

• Macon

• Mapleton
  

• New Lots

• Kings Highway
  

• Central

Here are some figure to help you visualize the scale of these changes, via BPL press release:

• 22 branches will be open for an extra day, including six that are adding Sunday service

• BPL will provide an additional 218 hours of public service per week throughout the system

• Average branch hours of operation will increase from 45 per week to 49

• Every branch will now be open at least 48 hours per week.

The BPL has also used its boost in funding to hire a bunch of new librarians — 40 so far — and other staffers to man its branches during expanded hours.

“More than half of the new librarians will be children and young adult specialists, contributing to the Library’s work on early literacy and school preparedness,” BPL officials said in a statement.

Below is a spreadsheet showing the new hours for each individual branch.