The Speakeasy Bookmobile is fortunate to call a host of publishers, community leaders, literary organizations and schools partners. These groups and individuals vitally support our mission to provide high-quality books to readers, absolutely free of charge. 

Individual City and State Supporters

  • NYC Council Members Diana Ayala, Bill Perkins & Carlina Rivera
  • Brad Hoylman, New York State Senator
  • DaVida​ Rowley Blackman, Director of Public/Private Partnerships, Office of Public Private Partnerships, New York City Housing Authority
  • Sharese Debouse, District Leader
  • Harvey Epstein, State Assemblyman
  • Tamika Mapp, State Committeewoman
  • William Wynne, Partner Resource Manager, New York City Department of Transportation

Community Partners 

    • ​​700 strong
    • Amazon Literary Partnership
    • ArtBridge
    • Behind the Book
    • BOMB Magazine
    • Book Rich Environments
    • Bronx Leadership Academy II High School, The Bronx
    • Bronx River Arts Center
    • Brooklyn Book Bodega
    • Brooklyn Poets
    • Brooklyn Public Library
    • CAMBA
    • Children’s Defense Fund
    • Community-Word Project
    • New York City Department of Transportation
    • DreamYard
    • Greenlight Bookstore
    • Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
    • Hudson Guild
    • Jackie Robinson Houses
    • Literacy INC
    • The Losaida Center 
    • Lower East Side Boys & Girls Club
    • Made for Me Books
    • National Book Foundation
  • National Night Out Against Crime
  • New York City Housing Authority
  • NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
  • NYC Poetry Festival
  • NYC Reads Initiative
  • New York Public Library
  • Pen + Brush
  • Pinkerton Foundation
  • Pioneer Works 
  • The Poetry Society of New York
  • Queens Library
  • Read 718
  • Red Hook Initiative
  • Small Press Flea
  • Talent Unlimited High School, UES 
  • Taft Houses, East Harlem
  • TD Bank
  • Transport Workers Union Local
  • Union Settlement, East Harlem
  • University Heights High School, The Bronx
  • Urban Hope
  • Weeksville Heritage Center
  • Whiting Foundation
  • Williamsburg High School of Arts & Technology, Brooklyn
  • The Writer’s Rock
  • Woodhaven Business Improvement District

Publishers

  • Algonquin Books 
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • Amistad 
  • Archipelago
  • Boogie Down Books
  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Candlewick
  • Catapult
  • Doubleday Books
  • Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
  • Graywolf Press 
  • Grove Atlantic
  • HarperCollins
  • Henry Holt

 

  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade 
  • Little Brown 
  • Liveright
  • Macmillan
  • McSweeney’s/Illustoria
  • MoMA
  • Nancy Paulsen Books
  • Oxford University Press
  • Penguin Random House
  • Scholastic
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Simon & Schuster Children’s Books
  • Sourcebooks Kids
  • Wendy Lamb Books
  • W.W. Norton

“The SpeakEasy Bookmobile has made such a great impact on the families of NYCHA. Being able to own books and build at-home libraries is a key step in improving literacy skills. It’s been amazing to see the joy on children’s faces as they receive new books and we share in that joy knowing that a whole new world of opportunity can open up for our residents through literature. We look forward to continued partnership with The House of SpeakEasy for years to come.”

—DaVida Rowley-Blackman, Director, Public/Private Partnerships, NYCHA