Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Heights Branch | Brooklyn, NY

This is my favorite Brooklyn Public Library that I have visited so far! Visited on the weekend and it wasn't too busy. Very quiet and lots of seating for people to study or hang out. Also just a really nice building with lots of natural light and a cool design. If you're looking for somewhere to get some work done in the area, I would recommend checking this location out! Support your local library and get a library card!

Posted on: October 13, 2025

Let me start off by saying I love the public libraries in nyc!! It is so important to support your local libraries, but this is the library I went to growing up all of my life in brooklyn and it is so awful now post-renovation and selling part of the building. It used to be so warm and cozy, with comfortable seating everywhere, and now it feels so clinical, with fluorescent lighting, metal bookshelves and the only seating is either plastic or cement. Also the last time I went, one of the workers called the cops on a black homeless man that wasn't doing anything wrong, and he was physically dragged out of there. Definitely doesn't feel like a space for the community anymore and is not a place I want to spend my free time. It feels like a doctors office not a library, and I hope whoever designed this renovation doesn't lay a finger on the other public libraries in the city that still have soul.

Posted on: April 29, 2026

Nice and new building - but like many of these new structures - it's poorly insulated from the kids and can be very noisy in the two main reading areas (kids are downstairs while teens are upstairs). Seated is limited and you're unlikely to find a spot during peak town. Would only come here to study if you can get here off peak or when it first opens. Otherwise skip l.

Posted on: February 12, 2026

Really nice place and friendly staff. Clean reading space. No quiet zones however not very loud

Posted on: November 07, 2025

I stopped in here on a whim while exploring Brooklyn on a weekend adventure, not quite sure what to expect. What greeted me was one of the most playful, effortlessly elegant libraries I have seen in the United States. Such a lofty statement might sound like hyperbole, but such is not the case. When I was in Norway last summer, I spent a large portion of my trip starry-eyed at what their libraries were like. Clean, elegant, airy spaces, lighted bookcases, and ample public space for people to gather around, along with extensive sections design specifically to be welcoming to children. There was geometric architecture not harsh or utilitarian, but instead encouraged people to spend time in the library. These places were comfortable and stylish, futuristic without being too ostentatious or kitschy about it. This library is not quite at that level. But it reminds me significantly of those libraries I saw in Norway, those libraries that I believe that the United States should take as a model for creating livable, soothing public spaces for people of all ages to read and explore all the intellectual wonders that their imaginations can touch. Its intimately minimalist architecture alone would be enough for me to place it above almost any other library I've seen in the city, large or small.

Posted on: October 03, 2022