Bloomberg Wants To Demolish Public Libraries Before He Goes

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7. Wasn't Andrew Carnegie, despite how he made his millions, a supporter of public libraries?

And isn't the Carnegie Foundation (no matter what we may think of them) still active in NYC? Would they be able to help keep these open, since as the OP says, they are being used more often?

I hated seeing the beautiful public library in my city shuttered to the public and used as the administrators office space. I loved to spend time there in old building, often the only space to sit were the stairways to read books.

This was back in the late seventies and early eighties. They build this modern monstrosity across the plaza on the same block, with a lot of wasted space and sold the books from the old library for almost nothing. History gone.

Now the new place had computers and all of that, but I never wanted to spend any time in it and it seemed that no one else did, either. They just walked in got their books or media and left.

This is likely all about real estate development and everyone is supposed to get their education off the internet. This destroys community and the Commons, but many have voluntarily left the community and abandoned the Commons now.