Six NYC Library Branches Take Home the “Oscars of Libraries”. Arverne, Glen Oaks, Inwood, Morrisania and Sunset Park Branches Get Top Honors and $20,000 Checks at 3 rd Annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards

New York, NY – June 7, 2016 – The winners of the annual “Oscars of Libraries” have been chosen! Six library branches from Queens (Arverne, Glen Oaks), Brooklyn (Sunset Park), Manhattan (Inwood), and the Bronx (Morrisania, Jerome Park) have won the 3rd annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards. The honor, an initiative of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Charles H. Revson Foundation, awards $20,000 to six outstanding public libraries – places where all are welcome, the programs and resources are free, and the librarians are making it all happen on a shoestring budget.

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