The libraries of the borough of Queens were announced as being the most utilized in the entire country. The Public Library Statistical Report just announced that Queens public libraries loaned 20.2 million items to residents in 2006, and the borough's on track to retain the top spot after loaning 21 million items in 2007. According to the 2000 federal census, Queens had 2.2 million residents, so that means the average person in the borough is......

You may remember Christopher X. Brodeur from his unexpectedly successful run for mayor, or from his spectacularly unsuccessful fight against aggravated harassment charges that landed him in the clink for six months last year. Well, he's back, and he's taking the fight to a new enemy: the Con Edison bill printing department! From an email he sent us this morning: Have you seen the new, larger Con Ed bills, which of course waste more......

- Seriously, why does it seem like public libraries are always closed? The News investigates. - Today was the Singaporean Chili Crab Festival in Brooklyn. Yum. - The Times ponders the sudden building boom in our city's cultural institutions. Check out the slideshow if you like architectural porn. - The strike is over at American Girl Place. - Busted! A Parks Department worker was caught after stealing a woman's watch while she was sitting......

In a stunning, yet not all that surprising, move that speaks volumes of about dwindling city funding, the NY Times reports that the New York Public Library hopes to Arts > Art & Design > New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/arts/design/11libr.html">raise millions by selling some of its artwork. Sotheby's will be handling the sale, which is expected to bring in $50-75 million, with Asher B. Durand's Hudson River School......

I was just hired full-time at a small but rapidly growing media company, and guess what? We don't have Martin Luther King, Jr. Day off! I'm kind of ticked at this, not just because I want a 3 day weekend, but I don't like how it's treated as a 2nd-tier holiday. Do most people have to work on Monday? How are you commemorating the holiday? City schools, post offices, the public libraries, the New York......