Save NYPL

Voices of Support for SaveNYPL's Previous Campaigns

The humans of New York seem to be rousing themselves to a collective understanding: that the great public institutions they boast of and rely upon can’t be entrusted to the stewardship of real-estate developers, corporate synergists, media barons, and other ostensibly well-intentioned, deal-drunk one-percenters. Instead we need to tend our own commons, large and small -
individual libraries, and the city itself.

Jonathan Lethem

National Book Award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow

As a longtime, devoted user of the NYPL—I’ve researched my own books there, borrowed books and books on tape, taught workshops for the Office of Adult Services—I am against any plan to decimate what has been a way in and up for generations of New Yorkers. Please add my LOUD voice to this protest!

Hettie Jones

Distinguished poet and acclaimed memoirist

For some time, a hypothesis that dared not speak its name has reigned over the NYPL debate: that the sale of the seven-story Mid-Manhattan Circulating Library and its air rights on Fifth Avenue at 40th is a developer’s dream, as was the greatly regretted sale of the Donnell Library across from MOMA.

David Levering Lewis

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois and 2002 Library Lion

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