The mayor has blamed the budget cuts on federal COVID aid ending, and the cost of the migrant crisis in the city.
Seeing this is being reported uncritically on a few other websites and on TV news as well.
The language surrounding the migrant situation is becoming more and more dangerous. It was only a month or two ago that Top Cop Adams said that the migrant “crisis” would destroy the city. Now we have the media running around putting the blame for budget cuts on migrants.
Here’s a NYT article that goes into more detail on the recent budget cuts: https://web.archive.org/web/20231116210120/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/nyregion/nyc-budget-cuts-schools-police-trash.html
The entire budget of the public library system is equivalent to the NYPD’s funding to encrypt their radios so citizens can’t hear police scanners anymore. This is an intentional “budget cut” to make people feel pain.
Oh that’s bad lmao
Annual library budget for New York: 430-470 million
Cost to ‘upgrade’ police radios: reportedly 390 to 500 million
There are Wall Street guys who make $36 million a year all by themselves. The city is swimming in money. It must be one of the richest cities in all of human history. I knew the yearly spending for libraries was going to be small but holy mother of fuck that’s obscenely tiny.
Cost to ‘upgrade’ police radios: reportedly 390 to 500 million
That doesn’t surprise me. I assume any number the police say is “necessary” is inflated by about at least five times.
Via Google
NYPD’s current Fiscal 2023 budget is $5.83 billion
hmm I’m not sure that’s right
NYC Libraries’ current proposed Fiscal 2023 budget in the Executive Plan is $471.5 million
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2023/05/Libraries.pdf
Ah, you’re right
Source I looked at was citing “city funding” as the 36 mill I used (not sure where they got that now tbh)
Total budget is indeed north of 400 mill, edited
What’s even sadder is the additional text I found when I went further digging
The Libraries’ projected Fiscal 2024 budget of $431.0 million represents less than one percent of the City’s proposed Fiscal 2024 budget in the Executive Plan.
But yeah no, libraries are killing the budget
Fuckin pig mayor
Hahahahahahaha fuck Eric Adams omg that man will have a premier seat in hell hahahahahahahahah
Richest city in the world somehow broke af guys get it together
Bet the Instanbul public library is not closed on Sundays
Have you considered robodogs catching fair evaders though
A society that closes libraries is a society not worth saving.
Imagine blaming immigrants for cutting library hours. Imagine believing that shit. This guy thinks everyone in the city is stupid and he’s saying it right to your faces.
Booo
and the cost of the migrant crisis in the city
It’s never the fucking rich, never ever ever!
Would it be wise to give the Borough Presidents more power over the mayor?
NYPD just spent $390 million on an encrypted radio system so it’ll be easier to hide when they kill people
A dying civilization
What if the library were to somehow become open on Sunday?
