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A $100 Million Donation to the N.Y. Public Library

March 11, 2008 - 7:46am — Blake

NY Times Reports The New York Public Library’s venerable lion-guarded building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street is to be renamed for the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, who has agreed to jump-start a $1 billion expansion of the library system with a guaranteed $100 million of his own.

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March 11, 2008 - 10:48am — Mack (not verified)

New York Libraries

And I bet that they still won't raise the starting salary.

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March 11, 2008 - 11:51am — Kristen (not verified)

NYPL Donation

Oddly, I was just reading a profile on him last week that mentioned how he was regularly criticized by his financial peers for not being philanthropic enough.

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