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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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The Library of the Future Envisioned- “The 21st Century Library”. . . And...
Discernible in the year 2077 pile of rubble that the film "Oblivion" envisions, the wreckage of the NYPL's 42nd Street Central Reference LibraryThere’s a powerful intuitive link between libraries and...
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The following is an open letter I wrote to the New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan concerning an article for which I was interviewed as co-founder of Citizens Defending Libraries by that...
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Was Library Administration Officials’ Campaign For Restoration of Library...
Caption to this "We Did It" photo sent by the NYPL: "You asked them to Invest in Libraries-and they did! Pictured, from left to right: Libraries Sub-Committee Chair Costa Constantinides, Finance...
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Priorities To Be Replicated?: Private Luxury Now Abounding Where Former...
"DO NOT ENTER" the library, still a construction site in the huge new luxury tower, but an "Opening Alert" went out last March inviting those who could afford it to come "Come sip cocktails in the...
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Do Conflicts of Interest Steer the New York City Planning Commission? The...
Over 2,000 completed testimony forms opposing sale and shrinkage of the library and collected in just over two weeksOn September 22, 2015 the City Planning Commission was taking oral testimony about...
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Op-Ed: City Council Poised To Vote On City-wide Model For Library Sales and...
The Brooklyn Heights Library, Brooklyn's central destination library in Downtown Brooklyn. Recently expanded and fully upgraded it is two-stories (about 38,000 square feet) above ground and two...
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Seasonal Reflection: Mayor de Blasio, His Heart Squeezed Grinch-Small, Starts...
Mayor de Blasio becomes the Grinch arriving at Christmas to steal and shrink the public's libraries while disguised not so very credibly in a faux Santa Claus suit.Noticing New York returns here to its...
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So You Are Looking To Make Sense of The World And Want To Get That Same Book...
Aaron Swartz said a book from the library changed his life- Picture of Aaron Swartz from an interview shortly before his suicide- "Three young New York filmmakers sought to document how the internet is...
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NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Is Taking Political Donations From...
WNYC and News News 4 New York have partnered to report on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office taking contributions from the potential targets of his investigationsYou probably don’t come to...
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Councilman Brad Lander Announces Participatory Budgeting 2.0- The Next Phase...
Democracy without training wheelsCouncilman Brad Lander, the city’s most joyously fervent exponent of Participatory Budgeting, took the opportunity of this spring season’s focus and rampant advertising...
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Ethan Hawke Appointed as a Trustee of New York Public Library- At Eventful...
Ethan Hawke, NYPL's newest trustee, at his first trustees meeting. NYPL president Marx seated on right.It was a change of pace, with the trustees of the New York Public Library meeting yesterday...
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Oddly Timed 2008 NY Observer Article Pumps Up “Ambition” For The Books- A...
Found on the Massey Knakal a real estate firm website. Text highlighted in yellow calls attention to the involvement of one of their brokers. It is probably just a bizarre coincidence that there is...
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Snowden, Booz and the Dismantling of Libraries As We Know Them: Why Was A...
This post will in a moment, I assure you, be about what has been a favorite topic for Noticing New York to keep returning to in recent years: The dismantling of libraries as the institutions we have...
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Too Close For Comfort? Real Estate Addresses- Blackstone, Booz Allen...
Here is a quick note, something to take stock of. I invite readers to see what they can make of it.At the end of last month I posted an article about how the private spy company Booz Allen Hamilton,...
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