Learn About The Brower Park Library Relocation On Feb. 16

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Staffers from the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will offer a public presentation Thursday on their plans to relocate the Brower Park Library to the Brooklyn Children's Museum. The BPL made the proposal public on Tuesday.

BPL staffers will discuss the proposal at Thursday's general meeting of Community Board 8. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. inside the Concern for Independent Living, located at 151 Rochester Ave.

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According to the BPL, the Brower Park Library is on land the library system rents, rather than owns, while the building itself needs $5.6 million in work.

The move will allow for the creation of a new facility, known as the Brower Park Family Library, the BPL said. That space will offer both its own lending items and materials from the Children's Museum's "30,000-piece collection, offering an invaluable resource to parents and educators in the community, who will be able to borrow authentic cultural and natural science objects to enhance learning."

Pictured at top: Brower Park Library. Image via Google Maps.