Joshua J. Friedman: Four NYPL branches had broken air conditioning this week amid 90-degree temperatures, despite being city-designated "cooling centers." Library officials blame $750,000 in deferred maintenance exacerbated by Mayor Eric Adams’s recent budget reductions.

Four NYPL branches had broken air conditioning this week amid 90-degree temperatures, despite being city-designated "cooling centers." Library officials blame $750,000 in deferred maintenance exacerbated by Mayor Eric Adams’s recent budget reductions.

After budget cuts, NYC's libraries can't fix broken air conditioners amid heat wavegothamist.com The air conditioning was out in at least four New York Public Library branches on Tuesday, forcing two Staten Island sites to close.

I wonder how much overtime was paid to cops this week?

I mean, how long can it take to stop and frisk someone wearing only a tank top, a pair of shorts, and flip flops.

This is the new Helsinki library with free 3D printing, 6 foot long poster printing, Nintendo 64 classics play room, evening dress sewing classes, meditation center and gourmet cooking program.

But something horrible happened to their bagels

😂

Look! A wagon wheel!

That looks like the stone money they have on Yap.

They built a robot to guide patrons to books. One morning in 2019, I woke up to an email from a researcher there. They had built a robot to guide patrons around the library and used my open source robotic googly eyes design on their robot! futurice.com/blog/the-lit...

The Little Robot that Lived at the Libraryfuturice.com How we built an emotive social robot to guide library customers to books

Plans to build your own eyes here. bikerglen.com/blog/build-a...

Build a Pair of Robotic Googly Eyesbikerglen.com

Send the cops to fan the library visitors with palm fronds.

Does anyone besides NYPD approve of Eric Adam’s job performance?

Maybe Kathy Hochul

If only there were giant pools of water where people could cool off, this wouldn’t be as …. Oh wait.

Most New York City Pools Are Still Closed as Temperatures Soarwww.nytimes.com New Yorkers are sweating through an early heat wave, but the city’s outdoor public pools won’t open until June 27.

Another victim of cop budgets

BAD MAYOR.

Makes me yearn for the halcyon days of … checks, doublechecks, …. de Blasio. My god.

Been hearing my fellow NYers waxing nostalgic for Bloomberg recently…..

Is it some kind of latter day unwritten requirement that the mayor of New York be a goofball bozo? Was the mayor in ‘84 Ghostbusters the last good one? 😀

What a disgraced.

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