PHOTO GALLERIES- PAST EVENTS

    •    PHOTO GALLERY- CDL's Library Protection Week

    •    PHOTO GALLERY: May 8, 2013 Rally on Day of NYPL Trustee's Meeting  

    •    PHOTO GALLERY: June 3, 2013 Vigil At Central Reference Library Protesting Loss of Our Cultural Patrimony- Evening of NYPL Fund-Raiser 

    •     PHOTOS & VIDEO & MORE- First half of July 2013: Two lawsuits against the Central Library Plan, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio Comes Out Against CLP 

    •     PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: September 25, 2013 Rally Outside NYPL Trustees Meeting At the Countee Cullen and Schomburg Center Libraries In Harlem, 515 Malcolm X Blvd 

    •     PHOTO GALLERY: October 22, 2013 Delivery of Petition To Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall

    •      PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: November 4, 2014 Protest At Gala Where NYPL Honors Bloomberg A Mayor Selling Shrinking and Underfunding Libraries

    •      PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: November 20, 2013 Rally Outside NYPL Trustees Meeting

    •      PHOTO GALLERY: December 16, 2013 Books Not Billionaires action at the 42nd Street Central Reference Library

    •     Citizens Defending Libraries at February 27, 2014 Brooklyn Heights Association- Article and Pictures

     •    PHOTO GALLERY: March 12, 2014 Rally on Day of NYPL Trustee's Meeting, Plus The ILLUMINATOR Strikes! 

 

      •   PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: March 29, 2014, 10:00 AM Saturday March for Women and Education Outside The 42nd Street Central Reference Library

    •    PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: April 8, 2014 Rally Outside BPL Trustees Meeting 

     •    PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: September 7, 2014 Halt Library Sales Rally (42nd Central Reference Library) With Zephyr Teachout/Tim Wu Campaign- Barry C. Lynn Speaks on Amazon

    •    PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: September 16, 2014 Rally Outside BPL Trustees Meeting- BPL Trustees Vote To Hand Off Brooklyn Heights Library To Hudson Co. As Developer 

    •    PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: February 14, 2015 Library Lovers Gather on Valentine's Day to Speak and Sing of Aching Hearts

    •    News Coverage of Saturday, July 25, 2015 Village Of Sunset Park & Community Leader Rally To Save Sunset Park Brooklyn Public Library From Developers
 

    •    PHOTO GALLERY+: September 12, 2015 Connect The Dots Save Our Libraries March Through Brooklyn Heights

    •    PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: October 10, 2015 Libraries In Crisis!: An Evening of Theater and Comedy

    •    PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY: February 29, 2016 Press Conference- Request Eric Adams Postpone Brooklyn Borough Board Vote

Twitter Link. Facebook link.

    •    Work-in at the 42nd Street Library EVERY Saturday! (Started February 22, 2014 and is Now Continuing EVERY Saturday)

Citizens Defending Libraries March 8th rally outside City Council's offices.  Photo by Jonathan Barkey.  Click to enlarge.

    •    Can’t find visuals or information above about the CDL event you are looking for?  Maybe it’s on this page:  LIBRARY HEARINGS & FORUMS (Reports & CDL Testimony)

    •    More Coverage at CSNYPL’s News + Events

CARTOONS, IMAGES, VIDEOS

•        Cartoons and Images

This cartoon by Mark Hurwitt has been a favorite for people to complain about, including a complaint from at least one trustee on the board of one of the libraries who works for one of the city's biggest real estate companies.  The complaint is about the "tone" of CDL's message.  Mark Hurwitt say that, professionally speaking, cartoonists consider such complaints a true measure of the success of what they have accomplished.  

    •    More Cartoons and Images

 Artist Gary Panter says: “Essential to all lovers of beauty, intellect”and "A WORLD OF ITEMS THAT DO NOT GOOGLE." (on Facebook)

    •    Even More (Shareable) Cartoons and Images- From Artists Fighting To Oppose Sale, Shrinkage and Plundering of Libraries

Bulldoze this historic Brooklyn library to build a luxury tower? (A troop of Girl Scouts created this video to save the Pacific Branch Library.)



De Blasio: Halt NYC Library Sales Until Properly Reviewed (From Citizens Defending Libraries YouTube Channel)

    •    VIDEOS: Available videos pertaining to the Citizens Defending Libraries (Including Videos of Elected Officials and Candidates Expressing Their Views On Saving Libraries From Sell-offs)

PRESS RELEASES/MEDIA ADVISORIES

For media inquires:

CONTACT:
Carolyn E. McIntyre, Michael D. D. White

Michael White, 718 (area code) 834-6184, MDDWhite (-at-) aol.com

Carolyn McIntyre, 917 (area code) 757-6542 cemac62 (-at-) aol.com

2013

   •    April 16, 2013 Open Letter from CDL To Brooklyn Public Library Trustees Delivered At Trustees Meeting  

   •    April 18, 2013 Press Release: City Comptroller John C. Liu Criticizes Underfunding and Sell-off of NYC Public Libraries to Private Real Estate Developers

    •    April 2, 2013 Press Release And Open Letter To Mayoral Candidates From Citizens Defending Libraries

    •     February 27, 2014 Open Letter from Carolyn McIntyre To Brooklyn Heights Association Delivered At It’s Annual Meeting That Day

    •    March 5, 2013 Press Release About CDL's Rally At Friday March 8, City Council Hearing On Library Budget

2014

    •    May 8, 2014- May 7th & 8th 2014- Our Press Release and Breaking News Headlines As NYPL Does About-Face Abandoning Its Central Library Plan

    •    April 8, 2014 Open Letter from CDL To Brooklyn Public Library Trustees Delivered At Trustees Meeting- Plus Information About the Meeting

   •    Monday, September 15, 2014 Press Release: Citizens Audit and Investigation of Brooklyn Public Library- FOIL Requests

2015 

    •    Friday, February 13, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY (& Press Release): Library Lovers Gather on Valentine's Day to Speak and Sing of Aching Hearts

    •    Friday, May 15, 2015  Our Message For the May 15, 2015 City Hall Rally to Respond to de Blasio's Budget Underfunding the Libraries 

    •    Wednesday, June 17, 2015  Where Is The Transparency?- Handout to Community Board 2 Land Use Committee the day of its June 17, 2015 Hearing About Whether To Sell and Shrinks The Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Monday, July 13, 2015 PRESS RELEASE & NEWS ADVISORY- Brooklyn Community Board 2 Votes Wednesday, July 15th On Proposed Fire Sale of Major Public Asset, Central Destination Library In Downtown Brooklyn

    •    Tuesday, July 14, 2015 NEWS ADVISORY- Brooklyn Community Board 2 Votes Wednesday, July 15th On Proposed Fire Sale of Major Public Asset, Central Destination Library In Downtown Brooklyn

    •    Thursday, July 16, 2015  Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams To Hold Uniform Land Use Review Procedure Public Hearing, August 18, 2015, On Whether Brooklyn Heights Library, Brooklyn's Central Destination Library In Downtown Brooklyn Should Be Sold And Shrunk 

    •    Monday, August 17, 2015 PRESS RELEASE & NEWS ADVISORY- Tuesday, August 18th, Eric Adams To Hold First Ever Borough President Hearing On Proposed Fire Sale of Major Public Asset, Central Destination Library In Downtown Brooklyn

    •    Tuesday, August 18, 2015  Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Still Taking Testimony On Whether Brooklyn Heights Library, Brooklyn's Central Destination Library In Downtown Brooklyn Should Be Sold And Shrunk

    •    Monday, August 24, 2015  PRESS RELEASE: Donald Trump Connected To Sell-Off of NYC Libraries? This Explains Exactly How.

    •    Monday, September 7, 2015  New York City Planning Commission To Hold Uniform Land Use Review Procedure Public Hearing, September 22, 2015, On Whether Brooklyn Heights Library, Brooklyn's Central Destination Library In Downtown Brooklyn Should Be Sold And Shrunk

    •    Friday, September 11, 2015  PRESS RELEASE & NEWS ADVISORY- Citizens Defending Libraries Connect the Dots Save Our Libraries March, Saturday

    •    Sunday, November 1, 2015  PRESS RELEASE & NEWS ADVISORY- NYC planning commissioners challenged to recuse themselves on Monday's library vote.

    •    Tuesday, November 17, 2015  MEDIA ADVISORY- A First Ever City Council Hearing: Should Brooklyn's Second Biggest Library Be Sold and Drastically Shrunk

    •    Thursday, November 19, 2015  How to Submit Testimony To City Council And Its Land Use Disposition Subcommittee About The Proposed Sale And Drastic Shrinkage of the Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Tuesday, December 8, 2015  MEDIA ADVISORY- City Council Votes On Library Sell Off Program Prototype This Week- Should Brooklyn's Second Biggest Library Be Sold and Drastically Shrunk? Comptroller weighing in.

    •    Monday, December 14, 2015  PRESS RELEASE & ADVISORY- City Council Vote On Library Sell-Off & Shrinkage Program Prototype Imminent- As Comptroller & Public Advocate weigh in de Blasio raids DOE funds to promote sales

    •    Tuesday, December 15, 2015  PRESS RELEASE & ADVISORY- City Council Vote On Library Sell-Off & Shrinkage Program Prototype- Many questions to be asked about backroom deal involving de Blasio

    •    Wednesday, December 16, 2015  Citizens Defending Libraries Statement About Today's City Council Vote Approving the Sale and Shrinkage of Brooklyn Heights Library (stated by BPL president Linda Johnson to be a "model" for future NYC library deals)

    •    Sunday, December 20, 2015  PRESS RELEASE: De Blasio, reversing campaign pledge, commences selling NYC libraries delivering, in Grinch mode, huge shrinkage

    •    Monday, December 28, 2015   TOP TEN REASONS TO BELIEVE THAT COUNCILMAN STEVE LEVIN WAS REALLY ON THE DEVELOPER'S SIDE PROMOTING A SELL-OFF RATHER THAN PROTECTING THE PUBLIC AGAINST A BAD LIBRARY SALE

2016

    •    Sunday, January 31, 2016  Love Brooklyn Libraries Files Complaint With Attorney General Eric Schneiderman That Brooklyn Public Library Understates Capital Funds In Order to Sell Heights Library

    •    Wednesday, February 3, 2016   PRESS RELEASE: Brooklyn Public Library Trustees Looking To Put Writers Out Of Work Create Story That Writes Itself- Their Bios

    •    Sunday, February 28, 2016  MEDIA ADVISORY- Citizens Demand Brooklyn Borough Board Postpone Critical Vote on Future of Brooklyn Heights Library- A Call for Transparency, Full Investigation of BPL Hoaxes & Bid-Rigging

    •    Monday, February 29, 2016  PRESS RELEASE- Citizens Demand Brooklyn Borough Board Postpone Critical Vote on Future of Brooklyn Heights Library- A Call for Transparency, Full Investigation of BPL Hoaxes & Bid-Rigging

    •    Monday, February 29, 2016  MEDIA ADVISORY-Sale of Brooklyn Heights Library Before Brooklyn Borough Board TONIGHT - Despite Community Calls For Transparency, Full Investigation of BPL Hoaxes & Bid-Rigging

Smorgasbord- Helpful List Of Open Letters, Letter Exchanges, Support Resolutions, and Handy Resources Concerning Libraries

Here are links to help you find some things you never thought you might want to look for. . .

Open Letters From Citizens Defending Libraries

    •    Tuesday, April 8, 2014- April 8, 2014 Open Letter from CDL To Brooklyn Public Library Trustees Delivered At Trustees Meeting- Plus Information About the Meeting

    •    Thursday, October 9, 2014- Open Letter To Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson

    •    Friday, February 6, 2015- Open Letter To Brooklyn Public Library Trustee Peter Aschkenasy Re Commitment to Provide Information About Library Sale

    •    Thursday, February 5, 2015- Open Letter to Brooklyn Community Board 2 Regarding Libraries

    •    Monday, February 29, 2016-  Letter to Borough President Eric Adams Requesting Insistence on Transparency and Full Investigation Into Cooked Books and Rigged Bidding Before Calendaring Brooklyn Borough Board Vote On Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Sunday, January 31, 2016- Open Letter To Councilman Steve Levin About His Letter To Brooklyn Public Library Demanding Transparency About Library Sales

    •    Monday, November 3, 2014- Proposed Statement of Principles Concerning Any Possible Redevelopment of Library-- Sunset Park Branch -

    •    Support and Sign-On Letter: Full and Adequate Library Funding, A Growing System, Transparency, Books and Librarians

    •    Thursday, February 27, 2014- February 27, 2014 Open Letter from Carolyn McIntyre To Brooklyn Heights Association Delivered At It's Annual Meeting That Day

    •    Saturday, September 12, 2015- Open Letter To The Brooklyn Heights Association: Stop Supporting The Sale and Drastic Shrinkage of the Brooklyn Heights Library And Start Opposing It.

    •    Saturday, September 12, 2015- Open Letter To Saint Ann’s School: Please Oppose the Sale and Drastic Shrinkage of the Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Saturday, September 12, 2015- Open Letter To The Fifth Avenue Committee: Stand on The Side Of Protecting The Community And Our Public Assets

    •    Monday, August 3, 2015- Conflicts of Interest Inquiry- Inquiry Submitted To The New York City Conflicts of Interest Board Respecting Brooklyn Community Board 2 and The Proposed Sale and Shrinkage of Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Friday, October 30, 2015- Letters To New York City Planning Commissioners Requesting Recusals With Respect To Vote on Proposed Sale and Shrinkage of Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Friday, October 30, 2015- Open Letter To NYC Planning Commissioner Cheryl Cohen Effron Respecting Her Vote About Selling & Shrinking the Brooklyn Heights Library, Other Libraries The Revson Foundation, Center for an Urban Future, And More

    •    Wednesday, August 12, 2015- Open Letter To New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan Regarding Non-disclosures By Ginia Bellafante and the New York Times In Connection With Article About Proposed Sale And Shrinkage of Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Friday, July 10, 2015- Open Letter and Invitation To Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders For Event About Protecting Public Assets At Tillary Clinton Library

    •    Friday, July 10, 2015-  Open Letter and Invitation To Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton For Event About Protecting Public Assets At Tillary Clinton Library

    •    Tuesday, June 2, 2015- Our Public Assets Under Attack- A Calamity of the Commons Unfolding That We Must Act Collectively Against- How best To Express It?

Letters Objecting To Library Sales From NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and NYC Public Advocate Tish James

    •    Wednesday, December 9, 2015- NYC Comptroller's Office Letter to Deputy Mayor Glen on the Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Thursday, December 10, 2015- Tish James, Public Advocate To City Council: "Supporting affordable housing and preserving public assets like libraries must not be competing imperatives."

Resolutions Supporting Citizens Defending Libraries' Fight Against Library Sales

    •    Thursday, April 23, 2015- Resolutions About Library Sell-offs and the Future of the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Heights Branch & Business Library adopted by Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats on April 23, 2015

    •    Thursday, April 16, 2015- Resolution on Future of the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Heights Branch & Business Library Adopted by Independent Neighborhood Democrats on April 16, 2015

    •    Thursday, February 5, 2015- Resolution Respecting the Brooklyn Heights Library Adopted by the Independent Neighborhood Democrats Executive Board

Letters Between Others Respecting Central Library Plan, Mid-Manhattan Library and SIBL    •    New York Public Library Staff Update: "Frequently Asked Questions" Respecting Changes Entailed With Its Abandonment of Its Central Library Plan

    •    Thursday, April 3, 2014- March 25, 2014 Letter From Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer to NYPL President Anthony Marx About NYPL’s Proposed Central Library Plan
 
     •    Wednesday, December 10, 2014- Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Exchanges Correspondence With NYPL President Anthony W. Marx About Sale of SIBL, (And Emails Constituents About It DURING City Council Hearing)  

Open Letter From Councilman Steve Levin About The Brooklyn Heights Library

    •    Monday, December 28, 2015- “An Open Letter Regarding the Brooklyn Heights Library Project”- Obfuscation From Councilman Steve Levin Concerning His Betrayal of The Community By Approving The Sale and Shrinkage of Our Library

Handy Resources

    •    Thursday, January 1, 2015- Partial List of Successes of Citizens Defending Libraries (founded early 2013)

    •    Friday, January 1, 2016- Brooklyn Public Library Trustees- Identified + Biographical and Other Information Supplied

    •    Friday, January 1, 2016- Why Nonprofit Boards May Stray From Their Core Missions And Obligations To the Public- Considered Generally And Particularly With Respect To Libraries


    •    Floor Plans of the Brooklyn Heights Library Considered In Light of the Library’s Proposed Sale and Shrinkage 

    •    Wednesday, June 3, 2015- In A Closed Library, A Tour of Much The Public Doesn't Get To See- Don't Let Them Close This Library, The Brooklyn Heights Library On Cadman Plaza West, Corner of Tillary & Clinton

    •    Sunday, June 14, 2015- It's Marvelous To Have Books!- Indeed, But Architect Jonathan Marvel Designs a Library Seemingly Oblivious To The Tradition of Finding Books In The Library

    •    Physical Books vs. Digital Books

    •    Wednesday, March 9, 2016,  WBAI Reporting About The Sale and Shrinkage of NYC Libraries- “Behind News,” "The Morning Show," Plus News Reports

    •    Occupy Alternative Banking: Listen to Citizens Defending Libraries - Feb. 1st Talk, Josh Snodgrass, Posted on February 1, 2015

VIDEOS: Available videos pertaining to the Citizens Defending Libraries (Including Videos of Elected Officials and Candidates Expressing Their Views On Saving Libraries From Sell-offs)

Citizens Defending Libraries is making a all sorts of videos available on its Citizens Defending Libraries YouTube Channel.  Selected videos from that channel can also be found here in this video page.

Only Citizens Defending Libraries’s own videos (that it has itself put on the web) are on its YouTube Channel.  Videos produced by others or links to them can be found here.  The best viewing of the videos can be had by going to the YouTube Channel, YouTube, or site where they are hosted.

At the end of this page you will find videos pertaining to positions of elected officials and candidates for office about the sale of libraries and shrinkage of the system as well as treating the mayor's underfunding of libraries as an excuse for doing so.

Bulldoze this historic Brooklyn library to build a luxury tower? (A troop of Girl Scouts created this video to save the Pacific Branch Library.)



The Girl Scouts at City Hall courtesy of CDL’s YouTube channel



Video of the culminating City Hall event of Library Protection Week produced by the Comptroller’s Office: Comptroller Liu criticizes sell-off of libraries to real-estate developers (Apr. 18, 2013) (The event in which the Girl Scouts participated)



News12 Brooklyn:Citizens Defending Libraries fights Cadman Plaza library move to Grand Army Plaza, March 26, 2013 (Go to site to watch video of new story that ran throughout the day).

Half hour BCAT documentary featuring footage of Library Protection Week Rally at the Pacific Branch: Underfunding Scam to Close Down Libraries.

  


David Levering Lewis, Double Pulitzer Winner, Decries "Catastrophic" Central Library Plan



Video: SAVE THE STACKS! - NY Public Library Protest "Shoutin' out in Public Space" song New York Public Library SERMON by Rev. Billy + "Breaking Into Public Space" SONG


Video: SAVE THE STACKS! - NY Public Library Protest "Shoutin' out in Public Space" song



Video: Librarians, Activists, and Henry Louis Gates collide @ the New York Public Library (6.2.2013)


Video: Reverend Billy choir goes to save the libraries from sale, shrinkage and underfunding.



Video: June 3 vigil outside the 42nd St. Central Reference library Reverend Billy’s choir assembles.



Video: June 3 vigil outside the 42nd St. Central Reference library Rev. Billy Preaches and then the Stop Shopping Choir Performs “Breaking Into Public Space.”



Videos of Elected Officials and Candidates for Office

State Assemblyman Kellner Pledges Library Oversight Hearings Absent Full Disclosure



State Senator Montgomery Requests Comptroller Liu Audit Library Sell-Offs



Letitia James & Stephen Levin Fight Library Selloff Schemes



Council Member Letitia James [candidate for Public Advocate] Rejects BPL's Real Estate Deals on March 8, 2013



Councilman Stephen Levin Questions NYPL, Brooklyn & Queens Library Presidents


Assembly Woman Joan Millman’s Opening at Assembly Committee Hearings On Sell-off of NYC Libraries



State Senator Eric Adams, candidate for Brooklyn Borough President speaks out against selling libraries- Eric Adams at CBID



De Blasio: Halt NYC Library Sales Until Properly Reviewed
(This recent, 7/12/2013 video supersedes the earlier video of de Blasio before he said he had yet to inform himself about the facts.) 

ON CDL’s YouTube Channel where statements of many elected officials and candidates are available, Bill Thompson Blasts BPL-Bloomberg Library Sell-Offs At Mayoral Forum (Question: Is he leaving himself any wiggle room?  CDL is trying to meet with him on that.)



Brooklyn Heights Library Rally — Sal Albanese, candidate for Mayor



City Councilman and candidate for Manhattan Borough President Robert Jackson Stands With Library Defenders At City Hall



City Council Candidate Yetta Kurland: Save Our Libraries!

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 Visually oriented?  You might also be interested in the following:

•    PHOTO GALLERY- CDL's Library Protection Week (April 2013)

•    PHOTO GALLERY: May 8, 2013 Rally on Day of NYPL Trustee's Meeting

•    PHOTO GALLERY: June 3, 2013 Vigil At Central Reference Library Protesting Loss of Our Cultural Patrimony- Evening of NYPL Fund-Raiser

•    Cartoons and Images

•    More Cartoons and Images

Elections/Candidate Recommendations

•        Results of the Primary Election- The Coming Runoff and General Election And Their Importance to Saving Libraries (Concerns Related To Citizens United)

•        Citizens Defending Libraries First Election Recommendation: NO to Christine Quinn, Who Favors Selling & Shrinking Libraries

•        Citizens Defending Libraries Recommendations On Other Candidates: Vote For Liu or de Blasio (Depending), Tish James For Public Advocate, NO to Squadron, and . . . More

LIBRARY HEARINGS & FORUMS (Reports & CDL Testimony)

Citizens Defending Libraries March 8th rally outside City Council's offices.  Photo by Jonathan Barkey.  Click to enlarge

  •       Wednesday, March 23, 2016 City Council Library Budget Hearing- Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

  •       Report on March 1, 2016 Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams & Brooklyn Borough Board Vote On Selling and Drastically Shrinking Brooklyn Heights Central Destination Downtown Library-

  •       Thursday, February 25, 2016- City Councilman Brad Lander Tells Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats He's Still Eager To Support His Sale and Shrinkage of Brooklyn Heights Library Despite Investigations Into Fraud- Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon Is Milquetoast on Perceiving Problems
 

  •       Wednesday, February 24, 2016- Annual Meeting of Brooklyn Heights Association- The BHA President Patrick Killackey Insists That BHA Will Continue To Betray Community By Supporting The Brooklyn Heights Library Sale & Shrinkage Notwithstanding Recent Scandals
 

  •       Thursday, February 18, 2016- INSIDE the CUNY Graduate Center Mayor Bill de Blasio & Paul Krugman Have a Conversation about Inequality in New York City: INSIDE We Say Don't Sell Our Libraries Because That IS Inequality
 

   •       Thursday, February 18, 2016-  Councilman Stephen T. Levin Comes To Speak About His Approving The Sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library at Independent Neighborhood Democrats Meeting- Doesn't Answer Questions Asked, Including Whether & When He Will Insist on Transparency from the BPL

   •       Wednesday, November 18, 2015- Report on Wednesday, November 18th City Council Hearing On Proposed Sale And Shrinkage of Brooklyn's Second Largest Library Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

  •       Tuesday, September 22, 2015- Report on Tuesday, September 22nd City Planning Commission Hearing On Proposed Sale and Shrinkage of Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

  •      Tuesday, August 18, 2015- Testimony and Report on Hearing Before Eric Adams, About Proposed Sale/Shrinkage of Major Public Asset, A Brooklyn Library, First Ever Such Borough Preseident Hearing

  •       Wednesday, July 15, 2015- Brooklyn Community Board 2 Votes To Sell and Shrink Brooklyn Heights Library, Largely In the Dark, With Much Manipulation And Strong-Arming In Background- Developer's Says He's "Super-duper Excited" And Thankful

   •       Monday, July 6, 2015- Handout Number 1 For July 6, 2014 Brooklyn Community Board 2 Land Use Committee Meeting- Let's Get the Record Straight! Concerns Re Proposed Library Sale+Shrinkage To be Voted On

  •       Tuesday, June 9, 2015-  Our Testimony and Report on City Council Hearing On Budget For NYC Libraries Held Monday, June 8, 2015 and Tuesday, June 9, 2015

  •       Thursday, December 10, 2015-  Links Respecting City Council land Use and Subcommittee Vote (and Steve Levin community betrayal) Respecting Proposed Sale and Shrinkage of Brooklyn Heights Library As Prototype For Future
 

  •       Monday, March 9, 2015-  Report on March 9th "Community Advisory Meeting" About Plans To Sell and Shrink Brooklyn Heights Library, Putting Up A Luxury Condominium Tower
 

  •       Public Assets Under Attack- Prepared For Handout at February 24, 2015 Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting

 

Citizens Defending Libraries' Carolyn McIntyre testifying about a BPL representative informing people that shelves in the Brooklyn heights Library Children's section were "fully stocked and overflowing" while the photo she held up in  poster form (see also below) showed that was clearly NOT the case

   •       Report on Tuesday, February 24th City Council Hearing On Supporting Public Libraries in the City's Ten-Year Capital Plan Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

  •       Monday, March 24, 2014, New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's Brooklyn Community Forum at Brooklyn Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza

Councilman Steve Levin (far right) on December 14th addressing Citizens Defending Libraries weekly meeting, speaking about ULURP

  •       Sunday, December 14, 2014, Councilman Stephen T. Levin Attends Citizens Defending Libraries Weekly Meeting to Discuss Uniform Land Use Procedure (ULURP) and Sale of NYC Libraries Like The Brooklyn Heights Library

•       October 17, 2014 Discussion of Sale of Public Assets

Culture Chair Jimmy Van Bramer tweeted, during the hearing, this photo of what it looked like from his vantage saying "No surprise to see packed house."

 •       Report on Wednesday, December 10th City Council Hearing On Future of Capital Budget For NYC Libraries Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

 •       Report on Tuesday, June 3rd-9th 2014 City Council Hearing On Budget For NYC Libraries Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

City Council Member Laurie Cumbo asking about library board members and their conflicts of interest at hearing about the NYC Department of Design and Construction's role in overseeing library construction, renovation and costs

•       April 28, 2014 City Council Subcommittee on Libraries Hearing: Testimony By Citizens Defending Libraries and the Committee To Save the New York Public Library- More

CDL's Michael D. D. White on right- one of many panelist delivering testimony against library sell-offs at March 11th hearing.  No one, except two of the library heads testified in favor of such sales

•        Report on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 City Council Hearing On Preliminary Budget For NYC Libraries Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

Attendees at November 3rd forum

•        November 3, 2013 Citizens Defending Libraries Forum On Sales Of Public Assets

September 3oth, years after the 2007 sell-off of Donnell, the City Council holds its first hearing on the sell-off of NYY's public libraries and finds the public is opposed.  Chair of the committee, Jimmy Van Bramer, center

•        Report on Monday, September 30th City Council Hearing On Sell-off of NYC Libraries Plus Testimony of Citizens Defending Libraries

Set up and ready to go at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center

•        Public Advocates and Comptroller Candidates Forum on Libraries Held September 4, 2013

•        Mayoral Forum on Libraries Held August 30, 2013

Above, Assembly Members Micah Kellner and Joan Millman listen to NYPL President Anthony Marx's testimony.  Photo from Jonathan Barkey

•        Testimony By Citizens Defending Libraries At June 27, 2013 State Assembly Committee Hearing On Selling New York City Libraries

The June 3, 2013 City Council hearing in the NYC library budget.

 •       Testimony By Citizens Defending Libraries At June 5, 2013 City Council Committee Hearing On Library Budget Issues

Until this March 8th hearing City Council Cultural Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer overseeing libraries hadn't encountered  Citizens Defending Libraries and the upsurge of opposition to sale of libraries as breaking headlines started unveiling facts

•        Testimony By Citizens Defending Libraries At March 8, 2013 City Council Committee Hearing On Library Budget Issues