FIRST PUBLIC AIRING: Plans to rebuild Brooklyn Heights library, move Business branch, face a skeptical audience
Details of the Brooklyn Public Library’s plan to sell the building shared by the Brooklyn Heights branch and the Business & Career Library to a private developer were shared at a contentious meeting of the Friends of the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library on Tuesday night.
Before the meeting was over a new group had formed, vowing to fight the proposal.
The plan calls for rebuilding the Heights branch inside a smaller, city-owned condo space on the first floor of a new, privately-owned residential development, and moving the Business branch to the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Heights.