And Now You Know How Astronauts Crap

When you get a reputation for bartering support it just makes everyone paranoid:

Last fall, the library went so far as to hire an outside lobbying firm, the Parkside Group, to help promote its plan. Mr. Marx has acknowledged that he spoke informally last month with City Hall about another topic: how the library and its 88 branches could help the city realize one of Mr. de Blasio’s favorite initiatives, the introduction of prekindergarten classes to the public school system.

Theodore Grunewald, vice president of the Committee to Save the New York Public Library, said he hopes the library’s gesture “doesn’t privilege N.Y.P.L.’s access to the administration over the community groups that are opposed to the Central Library Plan.”