Mamdani wants to slash NYC library budgets by $30M— despite calling similar cuts by Adams ‘cruel’

Source: New York Post

He’s making a return on his promise. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning the page on his campaign promise to boost funding for libraries — instead pushing to slash their budgets by nearly $30 million — after calling similar cuts under his predecessor “cruel. ” Under Mamdani’s $127 billion preliminary budget plan, the Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library would see an $11.