city library

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“I have nothing,” he said, as he tried to make some money repairing an old car at a homeless encampment across from the city library.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

Opponents of the hotel, which is planned on land once occupied by a city library, said such publicly owned property should have been reserved for affordable housing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2023

His wife, Gina Nixon-Perry, 42, is also a city library associate.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021

“The Friends has been very careful not to fund, through private philanthropy, the business of being the library: being a city library means paying for hours, staff, facilities maintenance.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2019

Then I wouldn’t have to take the smelly bus to the city library.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes