Bed-Stuy’s Macon Library and Sheepshead Bay branch among city’s top libraries
Two Brooklyn libraries have snagged top honors in the first-ever competition for the Charles H. Revson Foundation’s NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
Five libraries around the city received the accolade, including the Sheepshead Bay library and the Macon library (located in Bedford Stuyvesant), with each library awarded $10,000 in prize money at the award ceremony that took place in midtown Manhattan.
All New York City libraries were in contention, with more than 4,000 nominations submitted by New Yorkers. They were narrowed down to 10 finalists and then the five winners were selected by panelists: R.L. Stine, author of the renowned Goosebumps series; Kurt Andersen, author and host of WNYC’s Studio 360; Carla Hayden, CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore and former president of the American Library Association; Fatima Shama, NYC commissioner of immigrant affairs; and Don Weisberg, president of the Penguin Young Readers Group.