Central Library
The Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City. Located on Grand Army Plaza, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Library
- Description: central library of the Brooklyn Public Library
- Also known as: “Brooklyn Public Library central branch”, “Brooklyn Public Library Central Library”, and “Central Library (Brooklyn Public Library)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prospect Park and Brooklyn Museum.
Prospect Park
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Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Brooklyn Museum
Museum
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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Brooklyn Museum is situated 1,400 feet east of Central Library.
Grand Army Plaza
Square
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Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Grand Army Plaza is situated 700 feet northwest of Central Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prospect Heights and Park Slope.
Prospect Heights
Neighborhood
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Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at Grand Army Plaza – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.
Park Slope
Neighborhood
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Park Slope is a neighborhood in South Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.
Clinton Hill Historic District
Locality
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Clinton Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, in New York City. It consists of 1,063 largely residential contributing buildings built between the 1840s and 1930 in popular contemporary and revival styles.
Central Library
- Categories: library building and education
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Central Library” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المكتبة الرئيسية (مكتبة بروكلين العامة)”
- Arabic: “المكتبة الرئيسية”
- Catalan: “Biblioteca Central”
- Chinese: “中央圖書館 (布魯克林公共圖書館)”
- Chinese: “中央圖書館”
- Spanish: “Biblioteca Central”
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