Monday, February 8, 2010

St. Agnes Branch of the NYPL

Reopened, my friends, reopened! And the NYTimes has some beautiful pictures including this gem that shows the Children's Area.

Do they take down the Story Hour thing when it's not actually Story Hour? I mean, logically, it's not always Story Hour. Then it'd just be, I dunno, Story Day. And that's just silly.

Also of interest in this article is the lovely note about how all of the 67 libraries that Andrew Carnegie built include staircases with little black hooks, meant to catch or "deter" sliding children who think to themselves "Hey, banister! Fun!"

Imagine getting one of those in the crotch bone. When they say "catch" what they really mean is "castrate."

Carnegie, seen here with a boner tenting his hat, either didn't want children to get hurt by sliding down the banister and falling, or was afraid that one day a child would be born whose own massive boner power would far outweigh that of Carnegie, and then they would have to, like, epically battle or something. And being a kind-hearted rich guy, Carnegie was all "No way, man. No way. Hook those little rugrats in the balls."

And history was made.

You can find more New York History like this at your local library, kids. To find out more go to www.nypl.org and start on the path to learning!

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