Rugby Library

Open today from 10 am - 8 pm.

Hours

Monday 10 am - 6 pm
Tuesday 1 pm - 8 pm
Wednesday 10 am - 6 pm
Thursday 10 am - 8 pm
Friday 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday CLOSED

Address & Contact

1000 Utica Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11203 Get Directions

Fully accessible

234

B35B46

718.566.0053

Managing Librarian
Stefanie Sinn

Amenities

For more information about laptops for use in the library, visit our laptop loan page.

Return your BPL materials in our exterior book drop when the branch is closed.

Notary Services are available by appointment. To see our policy, available times and participating locations, visit our notary reservation website.

Located two blocks from the childhood home of Jackie Robinson and within walking distance of the world’s first solar-powered home, Rugby Library is a beloved civic institution in East Flatbush. When Rugby opened in 1957, its interior was perhaps the most colorful of any library in New York, with modern furniture in bright reds, yellows and blues. The branch still catches the eye of visitors, including those who attend Story Time and Ready Math, two of its most popular programs.

Upcoming Events

Story Play

Thu, Jul 17 11:00am
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Microsoft Word

Thu, Jul 17 11:30am
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Free Summer Meals

Thu, Jul 17 1:00pm
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Legos + Games

Thu, Jul 17 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room

Movies @ the Library - Mufasa

Thu, Jul 17 5:30pm
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Movies @ the Library

Thu, Jul 17 5:30pm
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Sit and be Fit

Fri, Jul 18 11:00am
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Free Summer Meals

Fri, Jul 18 1:00pm
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Teen Time: Sand Art

Fri, Jul 18 4:00pm
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Saturday Storytime

Sat, Jul 19 11:00am
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Muneco de nieve en julio: taller de…

Sat, Jul 19 1:00pm
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Snowman in July: Inclusive Kids’ Art…

Sat, Jul 19 1:00pm
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The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry…

Mon, Jul 21 10:00am
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Free Summer Meals

Mon, Jul 21 1:00pm
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Kids Create : Windmills

Mon, Jul 21 4:00pm
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Free Summer Meals

Tue, Jul 22 1:00pm
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Neighborhood Tech Help

Tue, Jul 22 1:00pm
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Mandala Tuesdays

Tue, Jul 22 1:00pm
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Maker Girls: Presented by Extreme Kids…

Tue, Jul 22 3:30pm
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Creative Aging: Precious Jewelry Making

Wed, Jul 23 10:30am
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Staff Picks

  • BKLYN Inclusive Services -- Adult Nonfiction for Disability Pride Month
  • Labubu Reading List
  • BKLYN: Tony Nominees 2025
  • For New Grads: Advice on Work, Life, and Figuring Out Adulthood
Book jacket for Head above water : reflections on illness
Head above water : reflections on illness
Shahd Shammarī
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Willow weep for me : a Black woman's journey...
Nana-Ama Danquah
Book jacket for Letters to my weird sisters : on autism and feminism
Letters to my weird sisters : on autism and...
Joanne Limburg
Book jacket for The autists : women on the spectrum
The autists : women on the spectrum
Clara Törnvall
Book jacket for We're not broken : changing the autism conversation
We're not broken : changing the autism...
Eric Garcia
Book jacket for Unmasking autism : discovering the new faces of neurodiversity
Unmasking autism : discovering the new faces of...
Devon Price
Book jacket for Crisis and care : queer activist responses to a global pandemic
Crisis and care : queer activist responses to a...
Book jacket for The care manifesto: the politics of interdependence
The care manifesto: the politics of...
Care Collective
Book jacket for Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole
Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the...
Julia Watts Belser
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My body is not a prayer request : disability...
Amy Kenny
Book jacket for Crip kinship : the disability justice & art activism of Sins Invalid
Crip kinship : the disability justice & art...
Shayda Kafai
Book jacket for Modified : living as a cyborg
Modified : living as a cyborg
Book jacket for Deaf people in the criminal justice system : selected topics on advocacy, incarceration, and social justice
Deaf people in the criminal justice system :...
Book jacket for Black disability politics
Black disability politics
Samantha Dawn Schalk
Book jacket for Care work : dreaming disability justice
Care work : dreaming disability justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Book jacket for Spectrums : Autistic transgender people in their own words
Spectrums : Autistic transgender people in their...
Maxfield Sparrow
Book jacket for About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
About us : essays from the disability series of...
Book jacket for Disability Pride : Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
Disability Pride : Dispatches from a Post-ADA...
Ben Mattlin
Book jacket for Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
Disability visibility : first-person stories from...
Book jacket for Sincerely, your autistic child : what people on the autism spectrum wish their parents knew about growing up, acceptance, and identity
Sincerely, your autistic child : what people on...
Book jacket for Sensory : life on the spectrum : an autistic comic anthology
Sensory : life on the spectrum : an autistic comic...
Book jacket for Black, brilliant and dyslexic : neurodivergent heroes tell their stories
Black, brilliant and dyslexic : neurodivergent...
Book jacket for Laziness does not exist
Laziness does not exist
Devon Price
Book jacket for How to Keep House While Drowning
How to Keep House While Drowning
KC Davis
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Not weakness : navigating the culture of chronic...
Francesca Grossman
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Crip up the kitchen : tools, tips and recipes for...
Jules Sherred
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There plant eyes : a personal and cultural history...
M Leona Godin
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Access your drive and enjoy the ride : A guide on...
Lauren Spencer
Book jacket for The invisible kingdom : reimagining chronic illness
The invisible kingdom : reimagining chronic...
Meghan O'Rourke
Book jacket for The long COVID survival guide : how to take care of yourself and what comes next
The long COVID survival guide : how to take care...
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Junji Ito's cat diary : Yon & Mu
Junji Itō
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Beautiful darkness
Fabien Vehlmann
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Lakelore
Anna-Marie McLemore
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Pet
Akwaeke Emezi
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The past and other things that should stay buried
Shaun David Hutchinson
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If these wings could fly
Kyrie McCauley
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Jelly
Clare Rees
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The girl from the other side. Vol. 1, Siúil, a...
Nagabe
Book jacket for Nimona
Nimona
ND Stevenson
Book jacket for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Book jacket for Fruits basket. 1
Fruits basket. 1
Natsuki Takaya
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Shark heart : a love story
Emily Habeck
Book jacket for The passion
The passion
Jeanette Winterson
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Things we lost in the fire : stories
Mariana Enriquez
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The curious case of Benjamin Button and other jazz...
F Scott Fitzgerald
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The vegetarian
Kang Han
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Bear
Marian Engel
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Bunny
Mona Awad
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Our wives under the sea
Julia Armfield
Book jacket for Piranesi
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Book jacket for Earthlings
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Book jacket for Wives like us
Wives like us
Plum Sykes
Book jacket for Cannibalism : a perfectly natural history
Cannibalism : a perfectly natural history
Bill Schutt
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These violent delights
Chloe Gong
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One piece. Vol. 1 : romance dawn
Eiichirō Oda
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Death of a salesman : certain private...
Arthur Miller
Book jacket for Louis Armstrong : jazz legend
Louis Armstrong : jazz legend
Terry Collins
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Kate in waiting
Becky Albertalli
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Shut up, this is serious
Carolina Ixta
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Vaccine wars : the two-hundred-year fight for...
Kimberley Tolley
Book jacket for The queens of New York
The queens of New York
E L Shen
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Wild minds : the artists and rivalries that...
Reid Mitenbuler
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Operation Mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizarre...
Ben Macintyre
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Stranger things: Runaway Max
Brenna Yovanoff
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Kathleen Krull
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American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and...
Abbott Kahler
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Edward R. Murrow : an American original
Joseph E Persico
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Only this beautiful moment
Abdi Nazemian
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The picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Civil rights movement
Jamie Jaywann Wilson
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Bobby Darin : a life
Michael Starr
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Trapped! : the story of Floyd Collins
Robert K Murray
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The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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One Italian summer
Rebecca Serle
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Say a little prayer
Jenna Voris
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The last outlaws : the desperate final days of the...
Tom Clavin
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Firefly home
Jane Clarke
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Self-love potions : herbal rituals and recipes to...
Valeria Kapusta
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Havana : a subtropical delirium
Mark Kurlansky
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Finding work you love : 3 steps to getting the...
Kirk Snyder
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The prepared graduate : find your dream job, live...
Kyyah Abdul
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What color is your parachute? 2021 : your guide to...
Richard Nelson Bolles
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Life skills : how to cook, clean, manage money,...
Julia Laflin
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A field guide to grad school : uncovering the...
Jessica McCrory Calarco
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Adulting : how to become a grown-up in 535...
Kelly Williams Brown
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Teen guide to side gigs : Working in the new...
Stuart A Kallen
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Financial adulting : everything you need to know...
Ashley Feinstein Gerstley
Book jacket for Your turn : how to be an adult
Your turn : how to be an adult
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Book jacket for Your turn : how to be an adult
Your turn : how to be an adult
Julie Lythcott-Haims
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Adulthood for beginners : all the life secrets...
Andy Boyle
Book jacket for And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
And then we grew up : on creativity, potential,...
Rachel Friedman
Book jacket for Hi, just a quick question : queries, advice, and figuring it all out
Hi, just a quick question : queries, advice, and...
Beth Evans
Book jacket for The rocket years : how your twenties launch the rest of your life
The rocket years : how your twenties launch the...
Elizabeth Segran
Book jacket for Mastering adulthood : go beyond adulting to become an emotional grown-up
Mastering adulthood : go beyond adulting to become...
Lara E Fielding
Book jacket for Recalculating : navigate your career through the changing world of work
Recalculating : navigate your career through the...
Lindsey Pollak
Book jacket for Student's federal career guide : ten steps to a federal job or internship for students and recent grads
Student's federal career guide : ten steps to a...
Kathryn K Troutman
Book jacket for Becoming an academic : how to get through grad school and beyond
Becoming an academic : how to get through grad...
Inger Mewburn
Book jacket for ...And then you die of dysentery : lessons in adulting from The Oregon Trail
...And then you die of dysentery : lessons in...
Lauren Reeves
Book jacket for Personal finance in your 20s and 30s
Personal finance in your 20s and 30s
Eric Tyson
Book jacket for Post grad : five women and their first year out of college
Post grad : five women and their first year out of...
Caroline Kitchener
Book jacket for The generation myth : why when you're born matters less than you think
The generation myth : why when you're born matters...
Bobby Duffy
Book jacket for Zconomy : how Gen Z will change the future of business-and what to do about it
Zconomy : how Gen Z will change the future of...
Jason R Dorsey
Book jacket for The new world economy : a beginner's guide : demystifying everything from ai and bitcoins to unicorns and Generation Z
The new world economy : a beginner's guide :...
Randy Charles Epping
Book jacket for Ask a manager : how to navigate clueless colleagues, lunch-stealing bosses, and the rest of your life at work
Ask a manager : how to navigate clueless...
Alison Green
Book jacket for Finance for the people : getting a grip on your finances
Finance for the people : getting a grip on your...
Paco De Leon
Book jacket for College admissions during COVID : how to navigate the new challenges in admissions, testing, financial aid, and more
College admissions during COVID : how to navigate...
Robert Franek
Book jacket for Paying for college
Paying for college
Kalman A Chany
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