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Free Children's Book Fair Set For The Upper West Side This Weekend
Council Member Gale Brewer is hosting a book fair on Sunday at the JCC on Amsterdam between West 75th and 76th streets.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A free children's book fair is taking place this weekend on the Upper West Side.
UWS Council Member Gale Brewer is hosting the book fair starting at 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Marlene Meyerson JCC at 334 Amsterdam (Corner of 76th Street).
Families and schools have donated over 1,000 new and gently-used books to be handed out at the fair.
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Volunteers working the fair will also be making packages of books to be given to students part of the JCC's tutoring program, shelters, nonprofits and asylum-seeking families.
Brewer's office also did outreach to Upper West Side NYCHA complexes to encourage residents to come out on Sunday.
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The local elected official will host the book fair alongside Literacy Programs at the JCC, which is a program started 25 years ago at the community center where kids get tutoring in a variety of subjects.
All are welcomed at the fair.
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