{"id":147863,"date":"2026-02-27T22:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147863\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:59:30","slug":"brooklyn-public-library-ends-passport-services-after-state-department-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147863\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Public Library ended its passport application services on Friday after being ordered to do so by the federal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the U.S. Department of State sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of nonprofit libraries across the country, telling them they were no longer eligible to take part in the Passport Acceptance Facility Program. The Brooklyn Public Library \u2014 the only one of New York City\u2019s three library systems to offer passport services \u2014 was among them.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/brooklyn-public-library-ends-passport-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBrooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Brooklyn Public Library ended its passport application services on Friday after being ordered to do so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[35229,98,100,99,14749,2065,153,6827,25981,23089,9,24,12,370,63,41662,62008,62009,62010,87,62011,18538,24611,29576,4727],"class_list":{"0":"post-147863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bpl","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-brooklyn-public-library","13":"tag-chuck-schumer","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-kirsten-gillibrand","16":"tag-letter","17":"tag-marco-rubio","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newsletter","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-passport","24":"tag-passport-application","25":"tag-passport-services","26":"tag-passports","27":"tag-politics","28":"tag-save-act","29":"tag-state-department","30":"tag-u-s-department-of-state","31":"tag-voter-id","32":"tag-voting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}