Hyde Park Branch of the Boston Public Library

Homie Base

Writing this review after seeing a tik tok I’m not an anti masker I’m actually someone that firmly believes that we should be respectful to one another the staff is extremely rude and forceful from videos shown multiple times I can completely understand people wanting to wear mask but they are a public library and at this stage in the pandemic where mask are optional they are trespassing people immediately after entering if they don’t choose to wear a mask that’s not how things should be handled even if you want people to wear mask there’s appropriate non confrontational ways to present things this place has also been said to be like a “zoo” and it’s a hard to study in The staff needs work and needs to be kind to people they disagree with be aware they are nasty rude individuals

Mary Hogan

Excellent quiet time reading the newspaper with the late afternoon warm sunshine pouring into the windows

Brenda Da Silva

If you want to actually study, read, or do work, then this is not the place. This library is a zoo. It's extremely loud, children running around shouting, people watching videos on their phones/laptops, answering their cellphones, and everyone talking loudly. There is also no private cubicles and the library is in general very dark. The librarians do a horrible job at reminding people that this is a library and people should be respectful by not doing these things. Oh and you can't even bring water in, but feel free to run around screaming!

Kayla Breaux

As far as studying space goes, this really isn’t an ideal library. There are virtually no individual desks and the library is noisy. The building is also very dated.