Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
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Re: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
#2Sunday seems like a poor choice. Sunday was always a prime homework day for me when I was in school. Typically not a lot else going on, so there was time for quiet, focused work.
Why not close on Tuesday or Wednesday? Unless it's also about staffing difficulty on weekends.
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#3Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Re: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
#4Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Well, give more money to the cops. That'll fix everything.
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#6Sunday seems like a poor choice. Sunday was always a prime homework day for me when I was in school. Typically not a lot else going on, so there was time for quiet, focused work. Why not close on Tuesday or Wednesday? Unless it's also about staffing difficulty on weekends.
> Why not close on Tuesday or Wednesday?
Library near my parents' house used to be closed or would close early on select weekdays. It really, really sucked for getting schoolwork/research projects done.
We expect businesses to be open during the workweek. We do not always expect them to be open on weekends.
I don't understand why they don't open late 7 days a week. Who goes to the library before noon? The kids are all at school.
Re: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
#7Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Oh man, I didn’t realize it was 3%!
NYC has a ton of people at the top of their fields in a really dense setting. I wonder what city services cause such a big shortfall! On paper it should be easier to finance NYC than any other big city, so I wonder where the money goes.
Or an I incorrect and the city is poorer than I think? Perhaps Long Island sucks more incomes away from the city than I thought?
Re: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
#8Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Well, give more money to the cops. That'll fix everything.
The NYPD is skipping an entire Academy class because of the cuts. It was uniform to every city agency.
Re: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
#9Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Well, give more money to the cops. That'll fix everything.
The police budget is ~6 billion, out of about a $110.5 billion budget
[0] https://www.nyc.gov/site/omb/publications/agency-budgets-pro... [1] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/fp11-23.pdf
Re: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
#10Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Oh man, I didn’t realize it was 3%! NYC has a ton of people at the top of their fields in a really dense setting. I wonder what city services cause such a big shortfall! On paper it should be easier to finance NYC than any other big city, so I wonder where the money goes. Or an I incorrect and the city is poorer than I think? Perhaps Long Island sucks more incomes away from the city than I thought?
About $32 billion comes from property taxes and $38 billion from "other taxes" (mostly income tax).
[0] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/fp11-23.pdf