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City officials restored almost $1 million of a proposed $1.2 million cut in the 1990 budget of the Brooklyn Public Library and also allocated funds from the $26.6 billion city budget for economic development and health, housing and recreation programs in the borough.
A Trauma Center at Coney Island Hospital, a lead poisoning program in Bushwick, legal services to help elderly tenants fight evictions and relocation of the historic Duryea House to a safer location, are among some of the programs that received funding.
Apparently responding to Borough President Howard Golden's call to Mayor Edward I. Koch to "cut the cut" when Golden joined school children in a recent protest at City Hall, the Board of Estimate restored $964,000 in library funds. The reduced budget would have forced many branch libraries to open only four days a week and eliminate weekend service at some.
"Public libraries offer hope to our people, especially our children, that they can improve themselves and make a difference in our society," Golden commented. "We must keep that hope alive."
"This is good news for the people of Brooklyn," said Larry Brandwein, director of...