Posted on 03/12/2024 1:20:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The majority of New York City public libraries will be forced to cut their hours yet again and open just five days a week if Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed $58.3 million budget cuts go ahead, the presidents of the Big Apple’s three library systems warned Tuesday.
Since November, the city’s more than 200 public library branches have already been shut every Sunday to offset the surging cost of the local migrant crisis.
On Tuesday, the presidents of the New York, Brooklyn and Queens Public Library systems laid bare the possible further reduction in services as they testified during a City Council hearing about Hizzoner’s looming 2025 fiscal year budget plan. The NYPL covers Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island.
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they have to get the money to give to the illegal aliens from somewhere!
Aren’t they primarily used by the homeless these days anyway?
Where will homeless get their porn on weekends?................
That and other assorted freeloaders who don't want to pay for a book, dvd or newspaper.
Ignorant and less educated people are more easily conrolled.
Yep.
too bad so sad.
NY is over.
Neighborhood Drag Queens outraged. Where can they go to read their storybooks to the children?
I had no idea libraries were open 7 days a week I thought they were closed on Sat. and Sun.
Libraries are almost obsolete because of the internet. The cost effectiveness of them is no longer there.
Libraries have outlived their usefulness.
Waste of money.
Besides, liberals can’t read.
I spent countless weekends at the libraries when I was in high school and college, working on projects.
Democrat criminals have intentionally destroyed all the great cities of the USA - NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, LA, Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago. These were beautiful cities and are GONE.
I was a book nerd as a kid. I would ride my bike to the local public library several days a week during the summer, where I spent countless hours reading. This was many, many years before Algore invented the Interweb.
I also learned to solve complex math equations using a slide rule and how to program computers using punch cards. If I wanted to look at pictures of neked women, I had to borrow a Playboy or Penthouse magazine from one of my friends (who stole it from his father’s stash). I couldn’t buy Playboy or Penthouse magazines as a kid, but I could buy cigarettes and rubbers in gas station vending machine for 25 cents a pack.
My point is that times have changed. Most public libraries (particularly in large democrat controlled cities) now mostly serve as places for vagrants to sleep. That is what is driving most of the opposition to cutting down their library operating hours to five days a week. Where will the vagrants go to sleep the other two days?
That’s what I came here for.
Libraries are also used by folks who can’t afford or who don’t have access to electronic devices.
If they restrict libraries to a five-day schedule, where will the homeless go on weekends?
“Libraries are almost obsolete because of the internet.”
Maybe not.
A few years ago, the company I worked for had a partnership with a junior high school in Minneapolis. Every year, they held a history fair where the kids had to team up and put something together. The junior high was strangely enough about 1/2 ghetto kids and 1/2 white kids from a wealthier area of Minneapolis.
The teachers who ran the history fair made it very clear to the kids that they would not use the internet as a sole source of information and that they’d look for other sources at their school or public library.
the kids learned valuable research skills which are still applicable. I enjoyed grading these kids and seeing their work.
IMHO, libraries are still valuable.
Wouldn’t it be a lot cheaper to close the library and just put up a bunch of Port-a-Potties and horse troughs for the homeless to bath and wash up in?
They want to keep that truth buried.
They're open-door mental institutions.
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