Controversial Brooklyn Heights library sale to proceed at ‘fast trot’
Summer hours to be cut in half
The controversial plan to sell the Brooklyn Heights branch library site to a private developer moved forward rapidly at a February 28 meeting of a steering committee put together to thrash out the details.
The plan calls for rebuilding the Heights branch inside a smaller condo space on the first floor of a privately-owned residential development, and moving the Business Library, which shares the building, to the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Heights.
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) wants to “move quickly to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights branch,” Josh Nachowitz, BPL’s VP of Government and Community Relations said at the meeting attended by elected officials and representatives from the Friends of the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library, the Brooklyn Heights Association and BPL.