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.
Fully accessible
234
B35B46
718.566.0053
Managing Librarian
Stefanie SinnAmenities
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
Mandala Tuesdays
Tue, May 14 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Library Lanes: Virtual Bowling
Wed, May 15 11:30am
Rugby Library
Library Lanes : Virtual Bowling
Wed, May 15 11:30am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Kids Tech Time
Wed, May 15 3:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Story Play
Thu, May 16 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Legos + Games
Thu, May 16 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Sit + Be Fit
Fri, May 17 10:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Sit and be fit
Fri, May 17 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
YA Craft Time: Felt Landscape Collage
Fri, May 17 4:00pm
Rugby Library
Saturday Storytime
Sat, May 18 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Kids Create: Memorial Day Poppies
Mon, May 20 4:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
Mandala Tuesdays
Tue, May 21 1:00pm
Rugby Library
Library Lanes : Virtual Bowling
Wed, May 22 11:30am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Library Lanes: Virtual Bowling
Wed, May 22 11:30am
Rugby Library
Kids Tech Time
Wed, May 22 3:00pm
Rugby, Meeting Room
2000s Throwback Teen Takeover
Wed, May 22 6:00pm
Rugby Library
Story Play
Thu, May 23 11:00am
Rugby, Meeting Room
Introduction to BPL computers
Thu, May 23 11:30am
Rugby Library
Staff Picks
- Women's History Month
- Women's History Month/Ramadan
- Celebrating Powerful Women
- Art, Fashion, History, and Powerful Women
Rad American women A-Z
Women who dared : 52 stories of fearless...
Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played...
Amazing women
100 women who made history : remarkable women who...
Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin : civil rights...
Nina : a story of Nina Simone
Frida Kahlo : the revolutionary painter!
Sing, Aretha, sing! : Aretha Franklin,
The heart of the storm : a biography of Sue Bird
Sylvia and Marsha start a revolution! : the story...
Born hungry : Julia Child becomes
Dorothy Height
She persisted in science : brilliant women who...
Troublemakers in trousers : women and what they...
Justice rising : 12 amazing Black women in the...
One wish : Fatima al-Fihri and the world's oldest...
Out of the shadows : how Lotte Reiniger made the...
Her name was Mary Katharine : the only woman whose...
We're in this together : a young readers edition...
Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true...
Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett...
Story quilts : Appalachian women speak
Deb Haaland : first Native American cabinet...
Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled...
Stolen science : thirteen untold stories of...
To boldly go : how Nichelle Nichols and Star trek...
Latinitas : celebrating big dreamers in history!
She caught the light : Williamina Stevens Fleming...
She raised her voice : 50 black women who sang...
Cut! : how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors...
The girl who built an ocean : an artist, an...
Her epic adventure : 25 daring women who inspire a...
Coretta Scott King
Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 inspiring...
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Rosalind Franklin
Science and me
Susan LaFlesche Picotte
Hannah G. Solomon dared to make a difference
Rosalind looked closer : the unsung hero of...
Rosie the Riveter : the legacy of an American icon
She stitched the stars : a story of Ellen Harding...
Alma's art
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
She persisted : Sonia Sotomayor
Mary Anning
Fossil hunter : how Mary Anning changed the...
Sisters in science : Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska,...
Rebel girls powerful pairs : 25 tales of mothers...
Kamala Harris
She persisted : Florence Griffith Joyner
Maya Lin
Temple Grandin
Virginia Apgar
Marian Anderson
Clara Lemlich
Wilma Mankiller
Nellie Bly
Malala Yousafzai
Diana Taurasi
Ruby Bridges
Patsy Mink
Margaret Chase Smith
Sally Ride
Wangari Maathai
Maria Tallchief
Claudette Colvin
Helen Keller
Harriet Tubman
Oprah Winfrey
Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary...
Mary Blair's unique flair : the girl who became...
It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the...
Lotte's magical paper puppets : the woman behind...
She did it! : 21 women who changed the way we...
Ruth objects : the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo : artist and activist
I am Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
Who was a daring pioneer of the skies? : Amelia...
Dr. Mae Jemison : brave Rocketeer
Bold words from Black women : inspiration and...
Rise up with a song : the true story of Ethel...
The astronomer who questioned everything : the...
I am Dolly Parton
Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big...
Dazzlin' Dolly : the songwriting, hit-singing,...
Beyoncé
Maryam's magic : the story of mathematician Maryam...
One step further : my story of math, the moon, and...
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace cracks the code
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer...
Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the...
Ada and the number-crunching machine
Programmers : with STEM projects for kids
Paleontologists : with STEM projects for kids
Engineers
Astronauts
We are not like them
We are displaced : my journey and stories from...
Mama, you are enough : how to create calm, joy,...
Of women and salt
Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and...
Satoko and Nada. 1
Love is an ex-country : a memoir
Proud : my fight for an unlikely American dream
Girl decoded : a scientist's quest to reclaim our...
Girls that never die : poems
Ms. Marvel. Vol. 5, Super famous
Call me American : the extraordinary true story of...
Muslim women are everything :...
If they come for us : poems
How to solve a problem : the rise (and falls) of a...
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who...
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
The Wife of Bath : a biography
The sky is for everyone : women astronomers in...
To boldly go : how Nichelle Nichols and Star trek...
Where no Black woman has gone before : subversive...
Parable of the sower : a graphic novel adaptation
The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among...
When you trap a tiger
The fearless flights of Hazel Ying Lee
Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made...
Artemisia Gentileschi and feminism in early modern...
Avant-garde performance & the limits of criticism...
The hidden history of American fashion :...
Edith Head : the fifty-year career of Hollywood's...
Josephine : the hungry heart
Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched...
Just kids
Moby dyke : an obsessive quest to hunt down the...