Open Letter To BP Adams: Don’t sell off our libraries
Dear Borough President Adams,
My name is Doreen Gallo and I am writing on behalf of the DUMBO Neighborhood Alliance (DNA) to express our extreme concern over the current plans to sell off some of the historic buildings that our public libraries inhabit in order to pay for repairs for other libraries throughout the borough. I am the DNA representative on the Brooklyn Public Library Community Advisory Council (CAC), which was formed after the decision to sell off our libraries to developers was decided by a select few.
The majority of our constituents are against the sale and corresponding physical shrinkage of our library system as a way to pay for maintenance for the remainder of the Brooklyn library system. What will happen the next time that the BPL runs short on cash? Libraries especially at risk in our borough are the Brooklyn Heights Library and the Pacific Street Library. Our public libraries are crucial in achieving the vision of equity and unity for all of Brooklyn’s residents, key visionary goals in your and Mayor de Blasio’s elections.