Dear City Elected Officials,

We, the undersigned, care about libraries in our communities and we want them to stay open. We rely on the Queens Library every day to provide access to free computers, free classes, free books and materials, free afterschool programs for our kids, and free adult education.


We urge the City Council and the Mayor of New York City to stabilize library funding and fully restore the proposed cut to funding to Queens Library next year. At 35%, or nearly $30 million, this cut will force over half of the libraries in Queens to close altogether. It will slash open hours to the lowest levels in recent memory. It will add hundreds of talented library staff to the unemployment rolls. This is at a time when we are turning to library services more than ever. Now is the time to support public libraries. Please help us save Queens Library by fully restoring the proposed budget cut for next year.



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