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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
This library is on loan!
Brooklyn Public Library
will open a temporary library
in Dumbo next month.
The organization plans to
open up a 1,600-square-foot
space dubbed the “Annex” inside
the ground floor of a John
Street building beneath the
Manhattan Bridge on Nov. 5,
in order to service local bookworms
until a full new library
opens across the street next
year, according to the borough’s
chief bookworm.
“We are opening a library
annex for our neighbors in
Dumbo, Vinegar Hill, and
the Farragut Houses as construction
gets under way on our
permanent home in the neighborhood,”
said the head of
Brooklyn Public Library Linda
Johnson in a statement.
The provisional book
lender will open on the ground
floor of the building between
Adams and Pearl streets with
a slate of programs for kids
and teens, such as story time
and crafts, homework help,
gaming workshops, and advisory
council meetings for
older kids and teens.
A small collection of
books, and a laptop loan pro-
Photo by Joe Hiti
(Top) Brooklyn Public Library will open a temporary
branch dubbed the “Annex” on John Street in
Dumbo on Nov. 5. (Below) A rendering of the new
branch planned for Adams Street in the fall 2020.
gram will be available in the
following months.
In spring of 2020, the outpost
will also offer workshops
to help with resumes
and interviews, along with author
talks and adult learning
classes.
The Annex will provide
space during the time when
library officials are building
a brand new $6 million
library on the ground floor
of an old factory building on
Plymouth and Adams Street,
which is slated to open in fall
of 2020.
The 6,565 square foot Adams
Street Library will be
the first newly-built public
library in the borough since
1983 and the 60th branch in
the system.
That construction project
is funded by $5 million city
capital funds and $1 million
proceeds from the controversial
sale of the Brooklyn
Heights Library to a developer
for $52 million in 2014 ,
which spawned protests from
readers who accused the book
lender of pandering to real estate
interests.
Building company Hudson
Companies razed the Cadman
Plaza W. library in 2017 to
make way for a 38-story luxe
condo building dubbed One
Clinton currently in construction
with a new book borrowing
branch at its base.
The sale of the aging
Brooklyn Heights branch was
intended to generate funds to
prop the library system in general,
which at the time suffered
from nearly $300 million
in repairs.
By Kevin Duggan and
Joe Hiti
Brooklyn Paper
Officers with the Police
Department’s Special Operations
Unit scaled the Brooklyn
Bridge as part of a training
exercise Friday.
The Police Department’s
Emergency Services Unit traversed
the iconic span’s main
cable to the tower on the Manhattan
side of the bridge beginning
at 11 am.
The city’s top cops were
secured by harnesses to the
bridge, but nonetheless found
the tactical maneuver a daunting
task.
“It’s so scary,” said one steely
eyed trooper as he descended
the cable onto the bridge’s pedestrian
walkway.
Three to four police choppers
circled overhead during
the exercise, while tourists and
passersby stopped to watch the
spectacle.
The training exercise prepares
police for bridge-based
operations, including rescues
and bomb threats, cops said.
New York’s Finest views: Cops scaled the Brooklyn
Bridge as part of a tactical drill on Friday.
NYPD
Bridge climb
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