Oh, look, an announcement

[timepiece]

$100 Million Donation to NYPL

Look what I saw in the New York Times. How nice. Funny, I work there, and yet did not hear about this before I saw the NYT story. Would it kill them to tell the staff before the general public?

And really, a cafe in Astor Hall? Do they have any idea how echo-y it is in there?

Comments

[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

No, NYPL doesn't tell anyone anything. The PTB much prefer to let rumors run free. Many of us figured months ago that Mid-Manhattan was being sold and SIBL might be next. Maybe 42nd Street a circulating library makes sense (It used to have Literature and Language, the Popular Library, and the Picture Collection), and using all those stacks for public space is a nice idea, too, now that remote storage exists for things that won't fit the stacks under Bryant Park.

So far, all the rumors I've heard have been right. I can't wait to see what's next?