Glen Oaks is getting a sleek new library that opens in the third week of May, officials said. The $17 million facility at 256-04 Union Turnpike is 18,000 square feet—nearly double the size of the neighborhood’s temporary library at 255-01 Union Turnpike. The new, three-story building will have more customer service features including computer workstations, [...]
Their eyes looking to the skies in memory of a lost beloved leader, elected officials drove their golden shovels into the dirt to break ground on a long-anticipated library expansion project. “It feels so good to be standing here today, knowing that construction is beginning,” said Queens Library President Thomas Galante at the Friday, April [...]
The Kew Gardens Hills library will soon close to make way for a $7 million renovation. An extra 3,000-square-feet of space will be added to the 72-33 Vleigh Place branch, library officials said. There will also be twice as many computers, a bigger meeting room, larger separate spaces for adult, teens and children and an [...]
Bayside bookworms will soon have to get their literary fixes elsewhere. The Bayside branch of the Queens Library, located at 214-20 Northern Boulevard, will close on December 29 to begin its $1.3 million renovation project, officials said. The complete interior makeover, funded by city and borough leaders, includes the installation of a new self-service check-out [...]
Batter up! The city’s renovations to the Tudor Park ball field have reached completion, although residents may have to wait until spring to plant their feet on the new grounds. “Tudor Park is always a very active area, and it’s always very full. When you have a park that people use, it needs to be [...]
Books and bookworms alike at Archbishop Molloy High School now have a new place to call home. Students and faculty at the Briarwood school welcomed a brand new, state-of-the-art library in September at the start of the school year. “It’s fantastic. It is light-years ahead of what it used to be,” said alumnus Joseph Sommo, [...]
