New Addition To Crown Heights, A Little Free Library

by CrownHeights.info

Let’s talk books.

There is nothing like a children’s book to create memories and pass the time, or reading an informative textbook to expand your knowledge.

For Miryam Elisheva Segal, filling the literary gap in the community is an important endeavor. So she decided that for her birthday she will make a new addition to Crown Heights, a Little Free Library.

“Crown Heights is a literacy desert,” said Segal. “Besides for two local libraries, there just isn’t access to secular literature at least, for the greater community at all.”

Now standing in front of her home at 910 Eastern Parkway (between Albany Ave and Troy Ave), the Little Free Library joins over 100,000 others across the globe allowing for free book exchange, this one for the Crown Heights community.

Each stand alone little library is a small bookcase that is open to the public to come by to borrow a book, drop one off, or donate one. Each library works independently, cycling books locally within their community.

Segal is hoping that the idea will take off, and that others in the community will establish their own Little free Libraries.

The Crown Heights Little Free Library is accepting donations of books for both children and adults, and will be posting regulary on Instagram with new arrivals to the library.

Segal made only one request, that anyone who wishes to donate books not leave them outdoors if the box is full. Instead, littlefreelibrarycrownheights@gmail.com to schedule a drop off.

While The Little Free Library on Eastern Parkway was created through local donations, it has also been established in memory of Yitzchak ben Zev HaLevi Segal, in honor of his Yartzeit.

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