THE COMMITTEE TO SAVE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
urges you to come to a meeting of the NYPL Trustees to be followed by a rally
where we are inviting elected representatives and candidates for office to speak. The Trustees don't meet frequently so this is important. This is their first meeting since the Scott Sherman article in the Nation, the cover story this month, based on recently obtained minutes of their meeting showing what they have been up to in designing real estate deals in the last decade.
LET THEM KNOW WE ARE WATCHING - Invite your friends to join us.
WHERE: COUNTEE CULLEN LIBRARY - NYPL
104 West 136th Street near Malcolm X Blvd. (Lenox Ave.)
135th St. stop on the 2 or 3 train
135th St. stop on the B or C train
WHEN: Wednesday, September 25
Meeting at 4pm - open to the public Rally at 5pm
Stop the destruction of a great research library.
Stop the sell-off of public libraries
Let NYPL know libraries should grow - not shrink
Come to the NYPL trustees meeting and let them know you are watching as they plan to spend taxpayer money on their wasteful, destructive plan. Then, come to the rally afterwards in front of the Countee Cullen Library 104 West 136th Street in Central Harlem. The meeting starts at 4pm and rally starts at 5pm, so please be on time! We want to have a strong presence at the meeting. If you can't make it at 4:00, join the rally after work at 5pm and greet the Trustees on their way out.
This event is also listed on MoveOn which you can join and get more info on at this link http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=139966
On the breaking news front this week: Did you know that if the Brooklyn Heights Library is sold (for shrinkage) the lion's share of of the proceeds and benefit from the transaction is likely to go to Forest City Ratner even if that company is not formally declared the developer of the property the library will give up? You'll be enmeshed in some real estate development analysis but that news is available from Noticing New York here (pass it around - it's already on the Citizens Defending Libraries Facebook page):
Friday, September 20, 2013, Forest City Ratner As The Development Gatekeeper (And Profit taker) Getting The Benefit As Brooklyn Heights Public Library Is Sold http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/09/forest-city-ratner-as-development.html
Regarding the very important October 1st Runoff election for Public Advocate in which the library sell-offs have become a big issue (Letitia James running against Daniel Squadron) there is a relevant CDL YouTube video (with a background write up) here of Squadron dodging a request to state his position on the sell-offs. Find it here: Squadron Campaign Kickoff: Equivocation on Libraries? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WBydN9OYI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUuPpIz0HsroX68Fdth79EfA
Sadly, the Brooklyn Heights blog ran this video, and (intending to defend Squdron?) suggested that a reason to sell the Brooklyn Heights Library is that it is used by the wrong kind of people- Comments can be posted at that site (as a "guest" if you prefer). There is a Citizens Defending Libraries comment post there by Michael D. D. White.
Here is what else is up in terms of events this week.
Canvass Mid Manhattan Library
40St and 5th Ave
Tuesday 4:00-5:00 PM
Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM
Contact Carolyn McIntyre, cemac62@aol.com
CDL meeting
101 Clark Street Community RoomBrooklyn Heights,
Sunday September 29, 4:30-6:00 PM
any subway first stop in Brooklyn 2,3 to Clark St
Thank you for caring about your public libraries which you pay for through your taxes,
Carolyn McIntyre
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