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Citizens Defending Libraries Launched As New Site Posting Resources...
There is a new site up, Citizens Defending Libraries, in connection with:the petition and campaign to oppose the defunding of New York City's libraries, the shrinkage of the system and the sale of...
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Noticing New York's Testimony at Tonight's Hearing on the Draft Scope of Work...
At this evening's hearingThis post may be updated with a few additional comments and certainly with a link to Atlantic Yards Report coverage of the hearing this evening (no doubt quite thorough) for...
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Say “NO” When Communities Are Blackmailed For Basic Services: Don’t Encourage...
Bigger building Walentas' Two Trees Development wants to build with zoning change. Click to enlarge- (or withhold vital city services to enlarge?)When I was in urban planning school in the 1970s I...
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The Petition To Save The Libraries Is Working: Confirming Petition Points BPL...
What could Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein have to do with the plan of the trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library to sell off and shrink libraries, the Brooklyn Heights Library and others, in highly...
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Bloomberg’s Increasing Annual Wealth: 1996 to 2013, Plus Updates On His...
How much will Bloomberg’s wealth continue to go up? Bloomberg looks skyward.. . . .The image above is from the November 1, 2012 press conference when, with multiple counties in New York, New Jersey...
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Tossing Dwarfs?: It’s Time To Demand That We Change The Way We Fund Libraries...
Aragorn throwing Gimli in "The Two Towers"It turns out that there was an inside joke buried in the Lord of the Rings trilogy that, as many times as those films have been watched in my own household, I...
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Read All About It: Library System Burglars Are Getting Inside Help - AND -...
Citizens Defending Libraries rally outside City Hall Offices on March 8th to protest the selling off of libraries to benefit real estate developersWhat if your home was burglarized? . . . . You’d...
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Community Alert! Community Alert! The Brooklyn Heights Association’s New...
With little fanfare the Brooklyn Heights Association posted a “Community Alert” on March 14th that says it is in favor of the sale and shrinkage of the neighborhood’s Brooklyn Heights library with a...
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Saving Schools and Libraries by Giving Up the Land They Sit On? - Letter To...
Delivering a hard copy of Citizens Defending Libraries letter to the editor, in addition to a previously emailed copy, for extra good measure did not work to get that letter published in the New York...
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Mayor's Prerogatives Such As They Are, No Island Should Stand Alone:...
The power elite of Brooklyn Heights may be about to conclude that having prevailed in a very important battle they are about to lose a more critical, much bigger war. Noticing New York has previously...
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Condoning The Sale and Shrinkage Of The Brooklyn Heights Library, Does The...
Awning of 24 Monroe Place in foreground, 19 Monroe Place in background. Two addresses associated with the sale and shrinkage of libraries For some it has been a shock that the Brooklyn Heights...
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A Letter from Brooklyn Public Library President, Linda E. Johnson, April 17,...
I am printing below, indented in italics, the totality of an April 17, 2013 letter that Brooklyn Public Library President, Linda E. Johnson, sent out by email to patrons of the Brooklyn Public Library...
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Building a “Murphy Library”
Murphy Bed to Murphy Library?Library officials want to sell, tear down and shrink existing libraries as part of a hand-off of library system real estate to hungry developers eager to convert most of...
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Relevance of Mayoral Debate Discussion About Forest City Ratner Atlantic...
From the pen of Simon Verity: Is Bruce Ratner going to get the Brooklyn Heights Library? Maybe.Why would Citizens Defending Libraries, a group that has mobilized to fight the sale of New York City...
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A Consideration of Race, Equality, Opportunity and Democracy As NYC Libraries...
This article is about the the selling off of New York City libraries, the shrinkage of the library system and the deliberate underfunding of the libraries as an excuse so justify the sales that create...
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Previews Of The Proposed New Donnell Library: The NYPL Unveils Its Version Of...
NYPL COO David G. Offensend presenting plans for `replacement' Donnell Library at Community Board 5 meetingArchitectural plans for what they are calling the `replacement’ for the Donnell Library are...
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More Thoughts On Valuation And What The NYPL Should Have Received As...
Two November 7, 2007 NY Times stories about real estate deals that turned out to be connectedOn January 12, 2007“the most expensive building sale in U.S. history”closed: Tishman Speyer’s $1.8 billion...
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Irony Of Ironies: Urban Librarians Unite, Holding A “We Will Not Be Shushed...
Urban Librarian Unite is having a read-in event (publicized above) to protest the underfunding of libraries but they don't want you to come to it if you are opposed to the real estate deals selling off...
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SIBL, NYPL's Science, Industry and Business Library Sold At An Unreported...
Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) in the former Altman buildingThings don’t always go as planned. Not even the mega-million dollar deals that the public expects are carefully considered as...
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On Charlie Rose NYPL Trustee Stephen Schwarzman Confirms Suspicions: His $100...
NYPL trustee Stephen A.Schwarzman appearing on Charlie Rose to discuss, among other things, the NYPL's Central Library Plan. Is that pinch to illustrate how the libraries get smaller as he sells off...
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