{"id":22160,"date":"2025-10-30T03:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22160\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:24:13","slug":"brooklyn-public-library-receives-13-2m-in-funding-for-urgent-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22160\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Public Library receives $13.2M in funding for urgent repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Public Library branches are getting some much-needed help to make sure their buildings stand strong.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $13.2 million in funding from the state Assembly and Brooklyn delegation will be allocated to 18 branches for urgent infrastructure repairs. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the major issues include leaky roofs along with broken heating and cooling systems. <\/p>\n<p>Library staff say they&#8217;re excited to begin the repairs soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really need to make sure that they are watertight, that they&#8217;re warm in the winter and cool in the summer so that our patrons can enjoy their time here and do their best work,&#8221; said Michele Bonan, vice president of Government and Community Relations for Brooklyn Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to take about two to three years to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Public Library branches are getting some much-needed help to make sure their buildings stand strong. A total&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,14749,9,24,63,1385,14748],"class_list":["post-22160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-public-library","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rebuilding","tag-rebuilding-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160","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=22160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}