Cuts all around. Get ready for layoffs.
Maybe that’s why the New York public library at Bryant Park didn’t open until noon today.
I wonder if they will reconsider their decision to let non New Yorkers use the Brooklyn Library now? I was paying $50 a year and it was a bargain.
I live in NYS. so my state income taxes fund the Brooklyn Library. Even after you get a library card, you have to recertify which is bullshit. This is not SNAP. I qualify to borrow ebooks without being shamed for not living in the boroughs.
I’m pretty sure that program was costing them more money to run than it was making, thus why they cut back on it. Anybody who bothered to sign up was a pretty heavy borrower of e-books, and those are expensive on the library’s side.
He’s undoubtedly the worst mayor the city has ever had.
New York somehow has terrible politicians on both sides. Like, the gullibility is insane. Adams, Santos, Hochul, Giuliani, they all suck. I just imagine shady people are bankrolling these nut cases.
This is my take as a liberal Texan, just because I live in a red state doesn’t mean I think these “blue” states are role models, NY especially is very hypocritical. People think down here we are a bunch of shooty bigoted cowboys and that’s sort of true, but over the years I’ve picked up that the East Coast has a bunch of dark shit going on that’s not reported in the media. I don’t think NYC models a good multi-cultural society either, it’s just a bunch of segregated pockets of different ethnicities/races/classes who secretly hate each other and want to be dominant. Guys like Eric Adams therefore are a product of that, there is nothing liberal about him except that he’s black so he has to play the part. I’d argue that there are sunbelt Republican mayors who are more progressive than Adams.
OK, you are in TX and have not one point of interest nor any reasonable input. Solve your own problems first.
Honestly, as a NYS resident, I don’t have a problem with Hochul. Santos is LI problem- they are idiots. Guiliani? It has been a long time since he was a NYS politician subject to a voting body. He is a sell out and frankly, sucked as a NYC mayor. I think the run off method for the mayoral vote is what gave us Adams. Garcia seemed to me to be a stronger and more experienced candidate. But I don’t live in NYC so don’t have a vote in that sector.
The USA in general has terrible politicians because they are controlled by business rather than workers.
Nah. I think Obama and Biden are fairly solid. Nobody is perfect, but they both seem to have a level of integrity that my other examples clearly don’t have.
Worse than Rudy?
Not really. When 200k people show up at your doorstep with their hand out what do you expect. The math isn’t that difficult to understand - it’s probably going to eat up $7 billion out of the budget over 1 year. Adams has tried to dissuade the tide of “asylum seekers” but it’s out of his hands. He doesn’t control the border.
I firmly believe he was backed by the GOP. He lived in New Jersey and used his brother’s NYC address to qualify.
Yeah, I don’t like cheaters. My current Congressional rep is a Texan carpetbagger MAGA fuck.
New Jersey isn’t really doing anything about their reputation as New York’s garbage dump.
NJ= Menendez
so we wait for him to be ejected. NJ, we are watching you now. Get your shit together.
New Jersey? Say no more, he’s cabbage
He is certainly one of the stupidest. I can almost see the cartoon birds flying around in his head.
Why does a city like NY keep voting in crypto-republican scum like this?
Stark denialism if you think somehow that Adams’ politics are the reason for this. Where is the $7 billion supposed to come from to pay for something like 200k (or more) people who have been thrown into his care? We all knew it would lead to this, but all you want to do is deny that there are consequences for acting like NYC is one big charity to the world.
It is the money… the funding. The people with the money have bought the candidate they expect will protect their interests.
It’$ a my$tery.
He is disgusting.
I hope things get alright! They should reconsider their decision…
libraries keep people safer than cops.
I would argue they’re two very different public services. You’re not going to call the library to come out if your neighbors are having a domestic dispute. You’re not going to ask a cop to help you find books on the mating habits of mole crickets.
Capitalists will try to destroy every 3rd place that doesn’t involve spending money - don’t let them!!
Voting has consequences. Instead of access to books you now can spend billions on illegal aliens. Win-Win!
BOOOOOOO
Adams sucks.
Apparently, being a sanctuary city is expensive. Things will probably get worse as time goes on.
Thank you New York, and thank you Seattle as well.
New York could have had the incredibly competent Maya Wiley as its mayor, but they went instead with an absolute knob that didn’t even really live there. Eric Adams is such a tool that he makes the groundhog-killing Bill de Blasio look like a capable leader, which is no mean feat.