QPL’s New Far Rockaway Library To Open Tuesday, July 30

Branch Will Be Open Seven Days a Week

FAR ROCKAWAY, NY_ Queens Public Library today announced that its new Far Rockaway Library at 1637 Central Avenue will open to the public on Tuesday, July 30, with a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. and doors opening at 1:00 p.m., and will offer Sunday service starting August 4. Along with Central and Flushing libraries, which, thanks to the restoration of QPL’s City budget, are resuming Sunday service this coming weekend, QPL will have three locations providing seven-day service.

QPL’s temporary Far Rockaway location at 1003 Beach 20th Street will close permanently following its last day of service on Friday, July 19.

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About Queens Public Library
Queens Public Library is one of the largest and busiest public library systems in the United States, dedicated to serving the most ethnically and culturally diverse area in the country.  An independent, non-profit organization founded in 1896, Queens Public Library offers free access to a collection of more than 5 million books and other materials in 50 languages, technology and digital resources. Each year, the Library hosts tens of thousands of online and in-person educational, cultural, and civic programs and welcomes millions of visitors through its doors. With a presence in nearly every neighborhood across the borough of Queens, the Library consists of 66 locations, including branch libraries, a Central Library, seven adult learning centers, a technology center located at the Queensbridge Houses, the nation’s largest public housing complex, and a community learning center at another public housing complex, the Ravenswood Houses. It also has five teen centers, two bookmobiles, and two book bicycles.

CONTACT: Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, ekern@queenslibrary.org