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CHANCE TO CO-AUTHOR: Residents can help shape a massive makeover of the New Utrecht
Library at a March 4 workshop hosted by borough book lenders. Photo by Steve Solomonson
Choose your
own ending!
BPL leaders invite locals to weigh in
on $22M reno of New Utrecht branch
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Brooklynites can write the book on
this library’s future.
Bensonhurst bibliophiles of all
ages and backgrounds can help shape
a multi-million renovation of their local
New Utrecht Library at an upcoming
workshop with chief book lenders,
according to a spokeswoman for the
borough’s library system.
“Regardless of one’s age or what
language a person speaks, he or she
will be able to participate,” said Fritzi
Bodenheimer. “The workshop is participant
driven and avoids architectural
and planning jargon. The feedback
will be captured and shared with
the architects.”
The March 4 workshop hosted
by library leaders at the 86th Street
branch between Bay 16th and Bay 17th
streets will give locals the chance to
share new design and programming
ideas for the 62-year-old reading room,
which is set for a three-year, $22-million
renovation slated to begin in 2021,
Bodenheimer said.
Attendees will get to use everyday
bric-a-brac — including pipe cleaners,
Legos, buttons, Popsicle sticks, and
cotton balls — to physically illustrate
their visions for the library, according
to the spokeswoman, who said the
arts-and-crafts projects will inform
how designers ultimately reshape the
facility’s interior to make space for
more public programming, as well as
its facade and exterior landscaping,
which librarians hope to make more
eco-friendly.
The workshop follows a series of
community-engagement events with
teens, reading-room staff, and do-gooders
with the volunteer group Friends
of New Utrecht Library, where those
locals also weighed in on the branch’s
next chapter, Bodenheimer said.
Following the brainstorm, reps for
the project’s chosen architect — Manhattan
based Rice and Lipka — will return
to the community to present their
makeover plan to residents, who will
then get more chances to chime in before
the redesign is fi nalized next year,
the rep said.
Librarians will shutter the branch
for the entirety of its 36-month renovation,
according to Bodenheimer, who
said all the cash for the job came from
capital funding allocated by Mayor De-
Blasio.
Share your thoughts on how to renovate
the branch at the workshop at the
New Utrecht Library (1743 86th St. at
Bay 17th Street in Bensonhurst). March
4 at 6 pm.
Classifieds call (718) 260—2555
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