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Startling Testimony at State Assembly Hearing on NYC Library Sales
This Noticing New York post will do something unprecedented: I will turn over most of what you will be reading here to someone else's voice: the startling hearing testimony of researcher Donald...
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When (If?) The Mid-Manhattan Library Is Ultimately Sold As Part Of NYPL’s...
Mid-Manhattan Library and behind it 10 East 40th Street on left and 445 Fifth Avenue on right. Would these three buildings be torn down to put up a very much larger building?As people should know by...
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Deceptive Representations By New York Public Library On Its Central Library...
It does seem as if more and more often the perfunctory and somehow now acceptable public relations ploy for public officials with an objectionable or weak narrative they want to peddle to the public is...
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Candidate News: Tomorrow’s Primary Election - Silly Season? Some Consider It...
Here’s some news, a bit of a round-up of stories concerning who you might vote for in tomorrow’s primary election.When I was in government, for all the months leading up to an election we kept our...
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Empty Bookshelves As Library Officials Formulate A New Vision of Libraries: A...
Aren’t libraries supposed to be places that contain books for us?The following American Heritage Dictionary definitions of “library” would seem to make that clear: a. A place in which reading...
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Forest City Ratner As The Development Gatekeeper (And Profit taker) Getting...
Above: The EDC and BPL RFP for sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library, a few photos of the library overlaid- There were no photos of the library in the RFP. I am about to tell you story about how much...
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Sell-Offs Of New York City Libraries Gets Focus In Public Advocate Runoff...
From Citizens Defending Libraries YouTube video of rally in April outside the Brooklyn Heights Library, one of the libraries threatened to be sold offThere is an October 1st runoff of the race for the...
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Michael Kimmelman’s Scary Tightrope Act On Library Design: A Dance With The...
Michael Kimmelman, architectural critic for the New York Times, has a new piece on libraries in today’s paper. I think it somewhat pulls off his apparent purpose in the end, but it is a nerve-wracking...
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Governor Andrew Cuomo Quashes Moreland Commission’s REBNY Subpoena and Other...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo looked pretty good when, at the very beginning of July this past summer, he created a special 25 member panel Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and misconduct...
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Update On Cuomo Corruption Investigation’s Nonissuance of Subpoenas- More...
Earlier this month, October 14th, I wrote here in Noticing New York:sometimes what is most important for you to know about government is not what’s being done, but what is not being doneI was writing...
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Conundrum For Those Wanting To Donate To Libraries: People Who Would Use Our...
Reading Citizens Defending Libraries flyer before entering Friends of Brooklyn Heights Branch Library October 21st fund raising gala- Author Evan Hughs enters captured by Jonathan Barkey's...
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Inspiration For The Non-Library: The Genesis Of The Design For The Space That...
Library?- The design to 'replace' DonnellThe bleacher/stairs can be used to show people David Niven movies in the daylightWho knows what will serve as inspiration for the fertile imagination? Or, as...
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Candidate Lhota's Flub!: He thinks library lovers don't read the Wall Street...
"Libraries Not Luxury Condos"? Or "Hospitals Not Luxury Condos"- Same thing, really, although a little Photoshop magic helped this de Balsio campaign ad bridge the very small difference. Here is some...
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Oops! NYPL Documents The Blank Check Mentality of Certain Reliable Supporters...
NYPL's "Voices of Support" page for the nonexistent Central Library Plan starting off with praise from the Daily News editorial pageGotcha! Smile! Say Cheese! You’re on Candid Camera! Caught in...
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Too Little Information And Perhaps No Good Explanation: Can Anyone Say Why...
Preserve Park Slope's flyer announcing the Thursday Community Board 6 meeting about the LICH expansionI usually like to have more information before I write an article, but maybe the fact that I have...
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Drastically Reducing Manhattan’s Main Library Space (At City Expense), The...
The South Court addition which in 2002 added another 42,222 square feet of needed space to the 42nd Street Central Reference LibraryThe New York Public Library (NYPL) is in the middle of drastically...
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Are NYPL Trustees Flying Blind on The Basics? Numbers To Inform Them About...
Demonstrators outside 42nd Street Central Reference Library during the November 20th NYPL Trustees meeting- On right, Simon Verity-drawn banner: "Trustees- On Your Watch" What do the New York Public...
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Tall Stories- Buildings Proposed To Shrink The Brooklyn Heights Library:...
Tall new towers in Brooklyn Heights to replace the Brooklyn Heights Library? The image of the two towers above are of buildings whose potential height speculatively ranges, Photoshopped to show their...
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A Seasonal Reflection: Assessing Aspirations Toward Alternate Realities- 'Tis...
’Tis the day to revisit our annual Noticing New York tradition: Checking in on the status of New York’s not-so-metaphorical `Ratnerville,’ which is to say to engage an annual stocktaking of the...
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Gifts We Are NOT Getting- For New York City's Libraries
Tom Wolfe at the White House, from WikipediaIt’s the holidays! The gift-giving season!. . . . Let’s talk about some gifts that are not being given these days. . . to New York City’s...
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