Mayor Eric Adams would not formally commit to restoring the $58.3 million budget cuts to the city’s three library systems but at his weekly press conference on April 30, he hinted that he and City Council speaker Adrienne Adams are looking at ways to restore the funds.

03 May 2024 | 12:16

One of the more controversial cuts outlined by Mayor Eric Adams last November as he was trying to close what he projected was a $7 billion budget deficit was the $58.3 million cut to the city’s libraries.

That caused libraries across the city to shut on Sundays and the worry was that if other threatened...