The Hidden Library

There's a library in my neighborhood I'd never been to until a couple weeks ago, because it's run by volunteers and keeps limited hours. It's a real, official public library though, part of the Berlin system. It's on a side street in a residential neighborhood, and from the outside, it looks like this:


Inside, the building looks like any other Berlin apartment building (same kind of entrance hallway, same kind of stairwell, and note the requisite baby carriage, because this is Prenzlauer Berg!), though perhaps a bit more graffiti-sprayed (I assume because keeping the front door open for library patrons also means giving the graffiti-sprayers easy access).


When you walk up the stairs, though, the first floor after the ground floor offers this, the library door:
Inside, the place looks like any other German public library. (Didn't get a picture, though, sorry!)