The Herald has learned the City will vote on building a new central library in the East Village, close to the new National Music Centre. $175 million from property taxes will fund the library. The current central library was built in the 60s, and is crumbling and requires $53 million in repairs. Thoughts on tax money going to this?
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The transformation could be most striking on an 8th Avenue spot alongside the LRT tunnel that was dubbed "crack cul-desac" until the past few years of police crackdown.
Barring a change of heart at council Monday, the library will span from that corner to 3rd Street, and offer easy access from the new City Hall twin stations.
There's also planning in the works to restore the long-broken Stephen Avenue pedestrian link through City Hall that was originally supposed to be preserved when the blue glassy complex was built in the 1980s.
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