Brooklyn Public Library announces branch sale to developer; Citizens Defending Libraries launches investigation
Brooklyn Public Library’s unanimous vote on Tuesday to approve a 52 million dollar sale of the Brooklyn Heights Branch to developer Hudson Companies was met with outrage from Citizens Defending Libraries, the… Read more »
NYPL President Tony Marx takes to public television to defend controversial Central Library Plan
In an interview with Jack Ford on New York public television’s MetroFocus program, New York Public Library President Tony Marx defended the so-called “Central Library Plan” to convert the 42nd Street Main… Read more »
Lawsuit compares Bloomberg administration’s decision on NYPL Central Library Plan to a “fourth grade book report”
A lawsuit filed in the New York State Supreme Court by Citizens Defending Libraries is charging that Mayor Bloomberg’s administration merely “rubber-stamped” the New York Public Library’s application for the… Read more »
Citizens Defending Libraries calls the Central Library Plan “a real estate grab” and “contrary to the public interest”
Citizens Defending Libraries, which was co-founded by Michael D. D. White and Carolyn McIntyre, has been organizing protests and actions against the Central Library Plan. They have told us that… Read more »
In blow to the Central Library Plan, The NYPL agrees to halt the planned destruction of the 42nd Street Library research stacks
Members of library advocacy groups Save the 42nd Street Library, Citizens Defending Libraries, and the Library Lovers League packed a court hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday morning in an attempt… Read more »
Second lawsuit filed against the Central Library Plan
Sometimes, it seems, you just have to get a lawyer. After a year of protests from all kinds of individuals and organizations against the New York Public Library’s Central Library… Read more »