{"id":215719,"date":"2026-06-10T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215719\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:24:07","slug":"summer-at-the-library-reading-campaign-kicks-off-across-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215719\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Summer at the Library\u2019 reading campaign kicks off across the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUNSET PARK \u2014 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, The New York Public Library and Queens Public Library on Tuesday launched \u201cSummer at the Library,\u201d an annual campaign designed to encourage New Yorkers of all ages to read all year long. Hundreds of programs and activities will be held across the city\u2019s library systems, including reading with a therapy dog, garden and nature story times, dance parties for teens and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the kickoff, on Saturday, Bay Ridge and Central Libraries (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) and Greenpoint Library (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) will offer book giveaways, crafts and performances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNSET PARK \u2014 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, The New York Public Library and Queens Public Library on Tuesday launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4673,4614,94456,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-215719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn-public-library-bpl","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}