Bootleg Betty Bette Midler Celebrates National Library Day By Mister D April 6, 2025
Legendary singer and actress Bette Midler urges the Mayor to reverse the $36M libraries cut to the city’s three public library systems in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget, which must be passed by the City Council before midnight on Friday.
Midler, the singer of chart-toppers such as “Wind Beneath My Wings,” said in the missive that she “does not envy” Hizzoner’s position of having to make “difficult choices” in balancing the city’s budget for the coming fiscal year. But she pleaded with Adams to spare the city’s three public library systems — the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries..
