E-mail or call public schools, including Benjamin N. Cardozo High School and John Adams High School, and community centers, such as the Red Hook Recreation Center or the Cooper Park Community Center, about the used books. Local churches might also be interested in used books. These institutions often depend on secondhand reading material to supply the community.
Benjamin N Cardozo High School
5700 223rd Street
Flushing, NY 11364
718-279-6500?
www.cardozohigh.com
John Adams High School
10101 Rockaway Boulevard
Jamaica, NY 11417
(718) 323-7185?
Red Hook Recreation Center
Brooklyn, New York 11231
718-722-3211?
www.nyc.gov
Cooper Park Community Center
Brooklyn, New York 11211
718-383-5292?
www.nyc.gov
Contact local libraries about your books. Libraries in Long Island that accept donations include Port Jefferson Free Library, Sachem Public Library, and Middle Country Public Library.
Port Jefferson Free Library
100 Thompson Street
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
631-473-0022?
www.portjefflibrary.org
Sachem Public Library
150 Holbrook Road
Holbrook, NY 11741
631-588-5024?
www.sachemlibrary.org
Middle Country Public Library
101 Eastwood Boulevard
Centereach, NY 11720
631-585-9393?
mcpl.lib.ny.us
Call secondhand bookstores, such as the Village Book Shoppe or Spoonbill & Sugartown Books. Each bookstore will have a manager who handles acquisitions. Often they will only be interested in titles not already stocked.
Village Book Shoppe
7 North Village Avenue
Rockville Centre, NY? 11570
516-764-1395?
www.villagebookshoppe.com
Spoonbill & Sugartown Books?
218 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY? 11211
718-387-7322?
www.spoonbillbooks.com
Deliver the used books to those places that have agreed to accept them. If you’d like, you can request that the new owners mark the donation, with a “Donation from ____” bookplate.