Brooklyn Life

Instead of cutting library hours, the mayor should cut the exorbitant salaries of the top honchos salaries at the library. Linda Johnson, Brooklyn Public Library's long-serving president & CEO, pulls down $577,422, and that's not counting about $50 grand for benefits. Ms. Johnson isn't the only one pulling in big bucks at BPL. Eight others are drawing about $200 thousand and more. They may work hard, but maybe they could work for less dough.

Super sad to hear this news. Shopped there all the time when I lived in the area. Young Joseph carried the torch and made it something special.

According to employees there in the last days, it's going to be an Anthropologie.

A terrific read, as usual. Thanks for reprinting it. The Sterling/Stirling typo, while unfortunate, doesn't come close to the error involving the naming of Keap St., wherein the name of a Declaration of Independence signer named McKean was converted to Keap, when the clerk doing the paperwork misread his handwriting as T. Keap. (A museum in, of all places, San Francisco has a collection of the signitures of Declaration signers and McKean's small c looks a lot like a dot.) Ah, the perils of poor penmanship! Although Stirling served ably at all three battles, Brandywine and Germantown were actually defeats and Momouth was at best, a draw. Stirling did, however, play a big role in preventing Monmouth from becoming a serious American defeat. Finally, another example of Washington's high regard for Stirling was his appointment to lead the inquiry regarding Benedict Arnold's attempt to turn over West Point to the Redcoats. While he was probably a bogus Lord, Stirling was a really good guy who deserves to be better remembered.