This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Reanimation Library brings discarded books to life in Red Hook
Andrew Beccone runs a mobile archive behind Pioneer Books on Van Brunt Street. The Reanimation Library houses over 2,000 postwar books, from Procedural Advertising to The Sex Life of the Animals, inviting visitors to touch, study, and reanimate forgotten volumes.
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van Brunt Street
Library
Andrew Beccone
Beccone
Seth Rogen
Pratt
Pioneer Books
Library of Congress
Mimi Onuoha
Susie Ibarra