The collapse of the Donnell Library deal in Midtown?in which Orient-Express Hotels would have purchased and torn down the West 53rd Street building for a new 11-story hotel with two floors of space for a scaled-down library?has left neighbors fuming about the branch's premature closure and calling for the building to be reopened. A library spokesperson says there's still hope that Orient-Express “honors its commitment to the library," but $59 million is hard to scrape together these days. [NYT, previously]
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