The NYPL cancelled all fines on children and youth cards!

[conuly]

(And if you're older than 17 but still in high school, you have a small window to drop in and get them to cancel your fines as well.)

Like many such ventures, this was jointly done by the NYPL and the Brooklyn and Queens libraries too.

Over the past few months we'd carefully returned nearly all the books we had out (this time, it was NOT my fault for losing them!) but those fines, omg.

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Found: A Schoolgirl’s Autograph Book From the 1930s

Why insects can develop from unfertilized egg cells

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When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats

Opera in the living room: an old tradition sees restoration in Italy

“Coming Out” as Face Blind

School honoring Confederate general has a new name: Justice

Victorian Culinary Trading Cards Are a Feast for the Eyes

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Air Crash: A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

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The “Unlikely Historians” Who Documented America in Protest

The physics of mosquito takeoffs shows why you don’t feel a thing

Why This Cardiologist Is Betting That His Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis

The doctor of the future

Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming

What's The Meaning Of The World Bank's New Poverty Lines?

JFK Files: Thousands released but Trump holds back others

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The Invisible Black Man on a Prospect Park Statue

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Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner

Chinatown’s Ghost Scam

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The Real John Kelly

This Land Is No Longer Your Land

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North Korean official: Take hydrogen bomb threat 'literally'

Comments

[chanter1944]

Oooooh, they *did* rename that Virginian school! :D I knew Justice Marshall was a candidate, name-wise, but I thought the deletion of J.E.B. from the original name, and the retention of the surname, was likely to win out. Guess not!

[conuly]

Not entirely sure I'd've gone with "Justice" myself, but I can see why they decided against Thurgood Marshall.

[chanter1944]

I read that at one point one proposed name was Justice Thurgood Marshall High, shortened to Justice. I like this variation, though. It's apt on at least two fronts. I can also see why they decided against Thurgood Marshall, for purely logistical reasons.