CBH Lobby Service
The Center for Brooklyn History is now open for grab and go Brooklyn Public Library service in the lobby, Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm. Access to our archives and in-person events remain suspended. Please visit our Coronavirus Update for the latest information on our response to the pandemic.
CBH Lobby Service
The Center for Brooklyn History is now open for grab and go Brooklyn Public Library service in the lobby, Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm. Access to our archives and in-person events remain suspended. Please visit our Coronavirus Update for the latest information on our response to the pandemic.
Support current and upcoming programs, projects and exhibitions at CBH.
Learn more about supporting our award-winning programs, public history projects and exhibitions. Donors to these major initiatives receive prominent recognition, special access to project-related programming and events, and much more.
Brooklyn is currently home to more Muslim houses of worship than any other borough in New York City, and the vibrant Muslim population in Brooklyn continues to grow. This public history project amplifies the stories of Muslim Brooklynites and contextualizes them in the broader histories of all Brooklynites. Learn more about the project here.
Taking Care of Brooklyn, opening at CBH on Pierrepont Street is an exhibition about public health and understandings of disease, and also so much more. It reveals the unique ways that residents experienced and understood health and disease in the dense, diverse, growing, and ever-changing place that is Brooklyn. Visitors will leave CBH with an expanded understanding of the meaning of “sickness” and “health,” both in the past and today. Read more about Taking Care of Brooklyn.
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