NYC’s Public Libraries to Expand Sunday Library Service

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Episode Transcript

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More than 30 branches across thecity will offer seven day
service beginning September 7th.11 additional library branches
across New York City will soon offer service on Sundays thanks
to new operational funding included in the city S Fiscal
Year 2026 budget. The expansion, which was

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championed by Speaker Adams and the New York City Council, is
made possible by a 2 million investment specifically
dedicated to growing weekend access to library service.
This funding is in addition to abroader 15,000,000 increase in
operating support for a New YorkCity S3 Library Systems.
Brooklyn Public. Library BPL.

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The New York public. Library NYPL.
And Queens Public. Library QPL As part of the
Fiscal Year 2026 budget negotiated by Mayor Eric Adams
and the City Council, the new Sunday hours will begin
September 7th, 2025 and bring the citywide total number of
branches open on Sundays to morethan 30.

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Expanded Sunday Library service will be offered at the following
branches. Brooklyn Public.
Library BPL, Bay Ridge, Bedford.New York.
Public Library, NYPL, Mott Haven, Baychester, Kingsbridge,
Harlem, Saint George, Queens. Public.

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Library QPL Glen Oaks Hunters Point, Jackson Heights, Rochdale
Village QPL will also offer a 7th day of service at Kew
Gardens Hills Library, which is already open on Sundays.
Starting September 13th, the branch will be open on

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Saturdays, bringing the total number of QPL locations with
seven day service to 8 QPLS Central, Flushing and Far
Rockaway libraries are currentlyopen every day of the week.
For full details on hours and services, patrons are encouraged
to visit the websites of each library system.

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About Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Public.
Library is one of the nation's largest library systems and
among New York City. As most democratic institutions.
As a leader in developing modern21st century libraries, we
provide resources to support personal advancement, foster

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civic literacy, and strengthen the fabric of community among
the more than 2.7 million individuals who call.
Brooklyn Home. We provide nearly 60,000 free
programs a year with writers, thinkers, artists, and educators
from around the corner and around the world, and we give
patrons millions of opportunities to enjoy one of

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life's greatest satisfactions, the joy of a good book.
About the New York Public Library.
For over 125 years. The New York.
Public Library has been a free provider of education and
information for the people of New York and beyond.
With over 90 locations, including research and branch

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libraries throughout the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, the
library offers free materials, computer access, classes,
exhibitions, programming and more to everyone from toddlers
to scholars. The New York.
Public Library receives approximately 16,000,000 visits
through its doors annually and millions more around the globe

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who use its resources at www.nypl.org to offer this wide
array of free programming. The New York public.
Library relies on both. Public and.
Private funding. Learn more.
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give. About Queens.
Public Library. Queens Public.

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Library is one of the largest and busiest Public Library
systems in the United States, dedicated to serving the most
ethnically and culturally diverse area in the country.
An independent nonprofit organization founded in 1896.
Queens Public. Library offers free access to a
collection of more than 5 million books and other

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materials in 50 languages, technology and digital
resources. Each year, the library hosts 10s
of thousands of online and in person educational, cultural and
civic programs and welcomes millions of visitors through its
doors. With a presence in nearly every
neighborhood across the borough of Queens, the library consists

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of 66 locations, including branch libraries, a Central
Library, 7 adult learning centers, a technology lab at.
The Queens Bridge public. Housing complex, a community
Learning Center at the Ravenswood Public housing
Complex and five teen centers. It also has four bookmobiles and

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two book bicycles.