Love of Reading, Lore, and Research
Dear Mayor de Blasio,
I lived in New York in 2001, and had to leave when the Towers fell. I have always been looking forward to returning. My family is also from New York.
One of my wonderful experiences while in school in the City was going to the NYPL. I have always been looking forward to going back.
It gave me such peace and such a sense of the strength of knowledge and of connection to learning and history to be in that library. It gave me a sense of action and I could feel my presence through its presence, with the hustle and bustle of searching and reading, a quietude and a reverence New York style.
The Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch fosters connection to history and to the power of the pursuit of knowledge for all. It was always my favorite place Midtown to spend time. Amidst all the glitz and tourism and high-fallutin’ advertisement and money of Midtown, the Library with the lions stands for but more importantly IS, physically is, the people’s center of the strength of knowledge, particularly in tangible form. To be able to sit amongst the stacks in the middle of Manhattan gives a sense of solace, a respite, a reassurance of one’s equality and ability, necessary here more than anywhere.
For these reasons, it was always my favorite thing on 42nd Street, and I am even a theater person.
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