Aguilar Library — Attraction in New York

✨ I go to this place a lot, it’s quiet, and friendly. The staff sometimes let people play on the computers. Free WiFi, hand sanitizer. If your library card expires, and you didn’t know. They usually let you have the books you need, then later the staff and you can renew it. Even though it doesn’t have a public bathroom, there’s usually a bathroom near the library for me. It’s a good library and is obviously free, it’s split into many sections to find the correct books, fiction, non fiction, Spanish etc. There are seats and places to sit. I find a lot of books that inspire me. There’s a toddler room for kids, though it looks like it isn’t supervised there’s staff around the corner seeing there, there parents there too, suits, fire fighters more....

I was just told that I wouldn’t be allowed to use the bathroom... although I was typing a final paper for class! I was told by the receptionist that adults aren’t allowed to use the restroom due to prior incidents... But that’s down right ridiculous and sad. You guys need to do better. It’s a PUBLICCCCC LIBRARY but you’re telling the public that they are not allowed to use your facility to use the restroom! Someone needs to look into that. I’m sure there’s someone higher up that can be reached to complain about this matter. It was said to me that only the children’s restroom is available to the public and it’s strictly only to be used...

As a lifelong learner and intellectual, I think libraries are so important when improving access to books and other resources like internet and educational programming. This branch of NYPL, only blocks from my apartment, is a convenient location for me to pick up texts ordered through the NYPL website (given that it's only a branch of the main library, it doesn't house the same volume of materials, but it is absolutely a...