Park Slope kids surround their library with hugs to protest proposed budget cuts
Kids from across the city woke up early on Tuesday, May 28, in an attempt to give city politicians a wake-up call about the importance of public libraries to New Yorkers.
They surrounded their neighborhood libraries, armed with posters and, more importantly, more arms — arms and hands, linked together in giant circles around the library buildings.
Hug The Libraries! was a way for libraries’ youngest patrons to emphasize the need to “stop the cuts” and “keep libraries strong,” the kids chanted at libraries throughout the five boroughs, including Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Bushwick branches.