August 11, 2022, 12:07pm
More than two dozen new Little Free Libraries will bring books to community gardens in all five boroughs of New York City, Serena Tara of Thrillist reports.
The new installations are a project of Little Free Library, the nonprofit that is responsible for more than 150,000 book-exchange boxes around the world, and The New York Restoration Project.
Here are the locations of the new libraries:
Bronx
Rainbow Garden of Life and Health, South Bronx
Bathgate Community Garden, Tremont
Glover Street Community Garden, Castle Hill
Bette’s Rose Garden, Melrose
Paradise on Earth, Fannie’s Garden, Morrisania
Target Bronx Community Garden, Highbridge
Brooklyn
Farmers Garden, Crown Heights
Cooper Street Community Garden, Bushwick
Williams Avenue Community Garden, East New York
Greene Acres Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant
Imani Community Garden, Crown Heights
Bridge Plaza Community Garden, Downtown Brooklyn
Aberdeen Community Garden, Bushwick
Gil Hodges Community Garden, Gowanus
Hull Street Community Garden, Ocean Hill
Target Brooklyn Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant
Jane Bailey Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant
Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant
Manhattan
Union Settlement, East Harlem
Maggie’s Garden, Hamilton Heights
El Barrio Community Garden, East Harlem
Toyota East Children’s Learning Garden, Lower East Side
Riley-Levin Children’s Garden, Inwood
The Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community Garden, Lower East Side
Herb Garden, East Harlem
Friendship Garden (Wicked) (to be installed fall 2022), West Harlem
Queens
Seagirt Boulevard Community Garden, Far Rockaway
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden, Jamaica
Staten Island
Westervelt Community Garden, St. George
[via Thrillist]