Sunday service will resume at seven public libraries this weekend, followed by 10 libraries at the beginning of August.
The New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library eliminated Sunday service at branches across the five boroughs last year due to mid-year budget cuts.
A budget agreement Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council reached at the end of June, however, fully restored their funding.
The following branches will resume Sunday service starting July 14, the three library systems said on their websites:
- Central Library in Jamaica, Queens (12 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
- Flushing Library in Flushing, Queens (12 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
- Parkchester Library in the Bronx (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in Manhattan (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
- Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library on Staten Island (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
- Central Library in Brooklyn (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
- Kings Highway Library in Brooklyn (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Ten additional libraries will resume Sunday service starting Aug. 4, the library systems said:
- Bronx Library Center in the Bronx
- Grand Concourse Library in the Bronx
- Washington Heights Library in Manhattan
- Jefferson Market Library in Manhattan
- Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in Manhattan
- Brooklyn Heights Library in Brooklyn
- Greenpoint Library in Brooklyn
- Macon Library in Brooklyn
- Midwood Library in Brooklyn
- New Lots Library in Brooklyn
The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library haven’t yet posted Sunday hours for those branches on their websites.
The Queens Public Library said a new Far Rockaway Library will also offer Sunday service when it officially opens its doors at 1637 Central Ave. on Tuesday, July 30.
Bay Terrace Library in Bay Terrace, Broadway Library in Astoria and Hillcrest Library in Flushing, meanwhile, are set to reopen “in the coming months” after undergoing renovations, it added.