Petker v. City of New York

This proceeding, apparently under CPLR article 78, although not so denominated, appears to be but another reaction of outrage by a community to the curtailment of library facilities brought about by a continuing and crushing financial crisis.

It is the partial "shut down” of library doors that precipitates this application and the correlative relief now being sought:(1) that the entire public library system is in violation of section 1 of article VIII of the New York State Constitution;(2) that the Public Library No. 32, Rosedale Branch, be kept open on a six-day-a-week schedule;(3) that…