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The Committee to Save the New York Public Library has just released a new broadside listing 5 steps to save the 42nd Street Library and strengthen NYC’s library systems. Download pdf: A Call for Action! Click on images  to enlarge:   1. The $150 million which former Mayor Bloomberg earmarked for the destructive 42nd Street Library… Continue reading A Call for Action!

State Senator Brad Hoylman, whose district includes the 42nd Street Library and the Mid-Manhattan Library, has announced his opposition to the Central Library Plan: I am deeply concerned about several of the proposed changes, notably the proposal to displace the historic stacks, dramatically reducing the number of readily available research volumes and increasing the wait… Continue reading State Senator Brad Hoylman Opposes Central Library Plan

A great report from the “Translationista” blog of a tour of the now-empty stacks at the 42nd Street Library which the NYPL recently gave for a delegation from PEN: Yesterday I was invited to tour the stacks at the 42nd Street Library as part of a delegation from the PEN American Center, which the NYPL is… Continue reading A Tour of the Now-Empty 42nd Street Stacks

When even the New York Post calls NYPL’s misleading appeal for the Central Library Plan a “sneaky solicitation,” you know their PR campaign has backfired! Read the full article: Bookworms: LIbrary Mislead Us in Central-Library Plan Petition

The new issue of the Nation magazine reports that Mayor de Blasio faces a choice: he can follow-through on his campaign pledge to halt the Central Library Plan, but time is running short. De Blasio was right to speak out: the CLP devotes immense resources to the central library, in the heart of Manhattan, while ignoring the… Continue reading Nation Magazine: Mayor de Blasio Can Stop Central Library Plan

In an article slamming the expansion plans of the Museum of Modern Art (another real-estate crazed NYC cultural institution), NY Times’ architecture critic Michael Kimmelman also calls out NYPL on the Donnell Library fiasco. The Donnell Library appears to be a model for how the NYPL plans to “transform” libraries (including the Mid-Manhattan), selling off the… Continue reading NY Times’ Michael Kimmelman: New Donnell Library Represents “the Logic of Real Estate Developers”

A big thank you to Publishers Weekly for picking the NYPL’s controversial Central Library Plan and library advocates’ efforts to save the research stacks from demolition as one of the “Top 10 library stories of 2013” (number 7, to be exact)! From the article: “The NYPL was depicted in the court of public opinion as out of… Continue reading Publishers Weekly: Fight over Central Library Plan One of the Top Library Stories of 2013

DC 37, New York City’s largest public employee union, has come out strongly against the selling off of branch libraries as part of NYPL’s renovation plans. “We can solve the funding crisis without selling our cultural heritage,” says Local 1482 President Eileen Muller, quoted in an article published on the DC 37 website  The article… Continue reading DC 37, NYC’s Largest Public Employee Union, Slams Sell-off of Libraries

With our allies we prevailed in court on Tuesday. The temporary restraining order which prevents any demolition at the 42nd Street Library was extended! Thanks to all of you who helped fill Judge Wooten’s courtroom for the NYPL hearings on Tuesday. Proceedings took most of the day. Arguments by Michael Hiller of Weiss and Hiller… Continue reading Report from Tuesday’s Court Hearing