For the past three years, staff and budget from the New York Public Library have been cut, said NYPL spokeswoman Gale Snible in an email. Last summer, the library was facing $ 40 million cuts.
Fearing that their branch might be closed, employees from the Mott Haven Library Branch started a petition to save the library. “I signed mine and my daughters name,” said 43-year-old Colen Moore, who often visits the library together with daughter Keisha, 8. “I don’t want it to close,” she said.