Council Member Stephen Levin announced his support for a substantially improved Brooklyn Heights Library project on December 10th, 2015. This proposal would redevelop the current Brooklyn Heights Library with a new, state of the art library built into the base of a 36-story condo tower, with some ground floor retail and provide 114 units of affordable housing offsite in Clinton Hill. The updated proposal includes significant improvements and new public benefits including the creation of a brand new library to serve the DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, and Farragut Houses communities and the creation of new public STEM labs serving students in the area.
- The size of the new Brooklyn Heights Library will be expanded by 24%, from 21,500 square feet to 26,620 square feet.
- A brand new, 5,000 square foot library will be created to serve the DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, and Farragut Houses communities. No site has been identified for it yet.
- 9,000 square feet in the new building at Cadman Plaza West will be set aside for dedicated STEM education labs administered by the NYC Department of Education and serving students in Brooklyn’s Community School District 13.
- The Brooklyn Public Library will commit to maintain seven-day-a-week service at the new Brooklyn Heights Library.
- The Brooklyn Public Library will partner with local business and entrepreneurship groups to create a new, 3,000 square foot ‘Technology & Business Services Center’ in the new Brooklyn Heights Library in order to preserve and enhance the technology-rich workspace and business-facing services of the current Business & Career Library and better meet the needs of a 21st Century workforce.
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