The Friends of the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library held a Trustees Meeting on Tuesday night addressing the impending sale of the building. As previously reported, it was announced on January 15 several BPL branches would be impacted as the system shifts to digital media and services. The current Brooklyn Heights’ Cadman Plaza branch will be closing and be “temporarily relocated.”
The Brooklyn Eagle was on at the hearing and live tweeted highlights. (The “star” of the evening was apparently Josh Nachowitz—pictured here—the library’s VP for Government and Community Relations.)
As Michael Kimmelman in today Times notes it is the Branch Libraries which democratize the system and they should be getting the support needed to make them viable. Let’s be honest: The Brooklyn Public Library is willing to sell itself out to a developer to raise some badly needed cash. They are selling out a fundamental neighborhood amenity that meets serious community needs for a mess of pottage. Needing a new air conditioning system is a lame excuse for tearing out a vital neighborhood service.
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