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One Last Check As Mayor Leaves Office- Bloomberg’s Increasing Annual Wealth:...
The media recently provided us with a mostly adulatory free-for-all summing up Michael Bloomberg's years as mayor. Did all that coverage avoid placing appropriate focus on the major story that most...
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Libraries And Climate Change: The Dangerous Destruction of Information We May...
A 2011 vanity book the NYPL published about itself. Its title, "Know The Past, Find The Future" is now ominously ignored when it comes to climate change and other issues.Do you know enough about...
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Musical On Broadway: The “Revolting Children” of “Matilda” Throwing Away...
One of the four young actresses playing Matilda in the musical on Broadway. Matlida loves her library books!One of the hottest tickets on Broadway that you might be likely to take a cherished...
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Internet Guru Clay Shirky Speaking At Brooklyn Heights Association Annual...
Internet guru Clay Shirky: We need libraries. Why? Because there is lots that you won't find on the internet.- Photo by Jonathan BarkeyLast week the Brooklyn Heights Association introduced Clay...
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Not THAT Michael White - “Return of the Library Dragon” And Other Books Meant...
Noticing New York is written by Michael White, maybe you know. That’s me. Michael White is an award-winning fine artist. His art is regularly exhibited in area galleries. (I am quoting.) . . . I am...
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Two New Surprises Courtesy Of Forest City Ratner Respecting Luxury Tower...
Rendering of possible "luxury" tower to replace Brooklyn Heights Library built using Forest City Ratner modular unitsThere are two new surprises with respect to the luxury tower designs that are in the...
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What’s Wrong With These Numbers?: The Baccarat Tower’s $60M Penthouse and...
Does the above look familiar? I presented this image March 11th to the New York City Council at the council hearing on the library budget as part of my Citizens Defending Libraries testimony. It’s...
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Citizens Defending Libraries Issues New (Updated) Petition Asking Mayor De...
Time brings changes!. . .. . . Keeping up with the product of its own successes Citizens Defending Libraries (of which I am a co-founder) has today issued a new (updated) petition asking Mayor De...
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Spaceworks And Its Privatizing Space Grab Of The Libraries
From the website of the mystery firm Spaceworks: the Williamburg Library where the private, Bloomberg-created firm is privatizing second floor library space SoHo was full of artists. Not any longer:...
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Mostly In Plain Sight (A Few Conscious Removals Notwithstanding) Minutes Of...
The Brooklyn Public Library would like to deny it, and, in fact, has publicly denied it multiple times, but the minutes of the meetings of the the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)...
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A Multiplicity of Scoops: An Astounding List of Things You’d Discover By...
Here’s a bulleted road map to the multiplicity of scary, documented scoops that you need to know are in Noticing New York’s new article: August 31, 2014, Mostly In Plain Sight (A Few Conscious Removals...
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NOTICE TO HUMMINGBIRDS!- How Sweet the Media’s Coverage of NYC Library...
NOTICE TO HUMMINGBIRDS!Mayor Bloomberg cautionssugary drinks can be badfor your health and causediabetes- Take SMALL SIPSONLY . . . No large takeawaybottles!But do you remember that BEFORE Mayor...
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What Contemplated Price For Junior’s Says About Real Estate Value of...
Properties not very far away from each other in Brooklyn, city-owned Medicaid office and adjacent Pacific Branch library, and, 11 minutes away, Junior'sJust this last June it was announced that the...
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The Public Loss of Selling And Shrinking the Brooklyn Heights Library- How...
In simple bar graph form- The BPL is proposing to drastically shrink the size of the publicly owned space in the Brooklyn Heights Library from 63,000 feet (blue) to just 21,000 square feet (on left) of...
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“We’re Starting From Scratch!” Says Developer Getting Brooklyn Heights...
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe- What might the luxury tower proposed to replace the Brooklyn Heights Library looks like? We don’t now how tall or what shape, or anything, because the developer is “starting...
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Plutocratic Class Warrior Stephen A. Schwarzman: Public Impoverishment When...
Stephen A. Schwarzman sees himself on one side of a class war, where when it come to protecting the preferential tax breaks he receives the rest of us are like Hitler. Stephen A. Schwarzman, head of...
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Is Forest City Ratner, As Victor, Writing Our History?- WNYC's Press Release...
“History is written by the victors.” That's certainly the old adage that reflexively gets accepted as true by so many of us even without knowing who first said it.But first the victor must wrest the...
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BPL’s Bklyn BookMatch- A Match For The Human Race’s Book Future?: Electronic...
Brooklyn Public Library president Linda E. Johnson envisions staff reductions if her idea of a “new” state-of-the-art Brooklyn Library is ever built, not surprising since the “new” library she wants to...
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With Big Bucks Out To Hijack Truth and Broadcasting Integrity- The Daily Show...
October 29, 2014, Jon Stewart takes on the Koch's when they advertise on his show.This October when the Koch Brothers ponied up $$$$ to muscle in on the Daily Show (broadcast on a commercial network-...
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Seasonal Reflections: No Matter How Fortunate or Not, We Are All Equal,...
The cusp of a new year and the winter solstice have arrived and it is again that time when, Noticing New York returns to its now annual tradition. Since 2009, Noticing New York has annually offered a...
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