New York's Winning Libraries

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 19, 2013

Did you vote for your favorite community library? Librarians from the five winners of the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards talk about what they're doing right and how they might spend the prize money.

2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Award Recipients

Antonia Bramble from Macon Library (Brooklyn)
Francesca Coraggio from Seward Park Library (Lower East Side)
Adriana Blancarte-Hayward from New Dorp Library (Staten Island)
Vilma Daza from Corona Community Library (Queens)
Svetlana Negrimovskaya from Sheepshead Bay Branch (Brooklyn)

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