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
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.
That doesn’t surprise me. I assume any number the police say is “necessary” is inflated by about at least five times.
Via Google
hmm I’m not sure that’s right
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
But yeah no, libraries are killing the budget
Fuckin pig mayor