‘Unsustainable’: QPL head warns that cuts could bring further woes to Queens’ libraries

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‘Unsustainable’: QPL head warns that cuts could bring further woes to Queens’ libraries

Double the wait times to check out books, over 100,000 potential Sunday visits lost and dozens of early closures or delayed openings – Queens' public libraries are in dire straits after struggling through several months of budget cuts, officials said on Tuesday during a City Council budget hearing.

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Jail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract

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Jail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract

The city’s Department of Correction has continued to struggle to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees on Rikers Island a year after the agency cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofits and opted to provide the programming themselves.

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Council rails against Adams’ budget cuts

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Council rails against Adams’ budget cuts

The New York City Council is pushing back on Mayor Eric Adams’ recent budget cuts to libraries, education, police and other agencies, arguing that their own projections show that new revenue can stave off the cuts.

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A dozen Queens pols call for CNN to host climate town hall in the borough

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A dozen Queens pols call for CNN to host climate town hall in the borough

Queens is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather because the borough contains such a large amount of coastline.

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