10/19/2024
Brooklyn Heights staff is celebrating Freedom to Read Day of Action! October 19th!
The Brooklyn Heights Library serves the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights.
10/19/2024
Brooklyn Heights staff is celebrating Freedom to Read Day of Action! October 19th!
10/05/2024
Teens: Join us for a Career Fair in the Teen Mezzanine! Oct. 15th 5-7PM. We will be joined by FDNY, NYPD, Parks and Rec, the DA's office, DOT, and BPL!!! Learn about careers and possible internships! Pizza will be available. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/teens-for-brooklyn-career-brooklyn-heights-library-20241015-0500pm
03/05/2024
Enter your submissions NOW for our Annual Teen Writing Contest!
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/teen-writing-contest
10/16/2023
TEENS: We're having a combo Book Talk and Writing Workshop by the amazing author: E. L. Shen. Join us Tuesday (10/17) at 4 for the book talk (copies available for purchase) and again on Tuesday (10/31) for a writing workshop to kickoff NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/author-talk-e-l-shen-brooklyn-heights-library-20231017
10/04/2023
Brooklyn Heights reads Banned Books!!!! Support Bannned Books Week and your Freedom to Read by checking out a banned or challenged title and posting a picture of yourself with your book on social media.
08/01/2023
Author Visit!!! Don P. Hooper will be here Thursday, August 3rd at 6PM. Join us for a discussion of his new novel: True, True. In this powerful and fast-paced YA contemporary debut, a Black teen from Brooklyn struggles to fit in at his almost entirely-white Manhattan prep school, resulting in a fight and a plan for vengeance. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/author-talk-don-p-hooper-brooklyn-heights-library-20230803
MAKE BKH TEENS' VOTES COUNT!
Thursday, August 3, 4:00 to 5:00
Join the BKH Teen Book Lovers Group! Read! Share! Review!
And CAST YOUR VOTES for the best teen reads this year!
Come to the meeting to find out how we can make BKH Teens voices count! Registration is encouraged but not required!
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/teen-time-teen-top-10-brooklyn-heights-library-20230803
07/11/2023
Teens: Wanna learn the ins and outs of BANKING? Join us for Adulting 101 tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th at 2PM in the Teen Zone or online! https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/teen-time-adulting-101-brooklyn-heights-library-20230712
06/27/2023
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday, June 28th at 5PM) in person or online for a discussion of the number one "banned" YA book for the last few years: GENDER Q***R. If you haven't read it, we have copies for you to check out!
Unbanned Book Club--GENDER Q***R Come pick up a copy at BKH front desk!!!! Let's read and discuss the top banned books for 2023. We will discuss a different book each month--and focus on the importance of freedom of information. IN PERSON and ONLINE Gender Q***r - June 28th 2PM Flamer - July 26th 2PM Not All Boys are Blue - August....
06/15/2023
JOIN BKH FOR AN AFTERHOURS PROM! Join us Friday, June 15th, at 6PM--just after the library closes to the public. Dress as you want! Up or down, funky or regular! We'll have a live DJ, pics, and snacks galore!
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/teen-takeovers-prom-bkh-brooklyn-heights-library-20230616
COMING UP! THURSDAY JUNE 29 5:30 to 7:00
Enjoy listening to the works of native New Yorker, Akua Dixon.
As teen she attended the infamous High School of Performing Arts, where she studied cello. Today, Akua is a cellist, composer, conductor, and educator. She recently participated in the Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, and over the years, Akua has toured the world performing with her Grammy Award-winning string quartet, Quartette Indigo, ”jazz’s leading string quartet” (Boston Globe). Akua’s string arrangements can be heard on the five-time Grammy Award-winning album, THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL and Aretha Franklin’s Grammy nominated, A ROSE IS STILL A ROSE. She has performed with Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Ray Charles and other greats. Come enjoy her music, and learn how she made a place for herself in e world of where the European classical tradition reigns. Registration is strongly encouraged - but not required.
Sign up here:
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/meet-akua-dixon-jazz-brooklyn-heights-library-20230629
| Monday | 10am - 6pm |
| Tuesday | 1pm - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 6pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 8pm |
| Friday | 10am - 6pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 1pm - 5pm |