The New York Public Library has expanded hours at branches throughout the city, with a focus on evenings, weekends and other periods of high demand, as we cut-and-paste from the news release.
How did they manage this?
A historic $43 million increase in operating funding to the city’s three library systems in Fiscal Year 2016 has allowed NYPL to add 293 more public service hours per week at branches across the system, bringing average weekly branch hours up from 46.6 hours to 50.
And here are the new hours for the branches around here...
• Hamilton Fish Park Library, 415 East Houston St. between Pitt and Columbia
Hours: Mon. and Weds. 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Tues. and Thurs. 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Ottendorfer Library, 135 Second Ave. between St. Mark's Place and East Ninth
Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Tompkins Square Library, 331 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B
Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
None of these branches will have Sunday hours, however, like several other locations. (Still only one Library open on Sundays hereabouts.)
Also, the NYPL released the "Top Book Check Outs of 2015" by branch... so in case you were wondering...
Hamilton Fish Park - "Blue Exorcist" by Kazue Kato and John Werry
Ottendorfer - "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Tompkins Square - "The Paying Guests" by Sarah Waters
H/T DNAinfo
