Banned Books Reading
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · 9:00 PM · Brooklyn Central Library, Brooklyn
The Venue
Brooklyn Central Library
10 Grand Army Plz 1st floor
The main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, open at Grand Army Plaza since February 1941, with free public programming that includes films, exhibitions and talks.
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Shape The Night
Before
Prospect Park's Long Meadow, through Endale ArchCome in at the Grand Army Plaza entrance and the path drops you under Endale Arch, which Olmsted and Vaux built to cut off the city before it opens onto the mile-long Long Meadow. The arch was stripped back to its original banded woodwork and sandstone in a restoration finished in 2020. Past it the meadow is flat, open and full of people lying on the grass, and it runs most of the length of the park.
9:00 PM · Banned Books Reading
After
Tip-Top Bar & GrillWalter Alston opened this as a pool hall in the early 1950s and his daughter Linda Greer runs it now. The jukebox plays seventies R&B, the Christmas lights and the birthday banner stay up all year, and a shot with a beer is five dollars. Thursday is snacky hour, when the wings and hot sausages are free.