JERSEY CITY – The Jersey City Free Public Library announced on Tuesday that three neighborhood library branches will be closed by the end of this year due to “severe” cuts in the city’s funding to the library.
The library is also enacting the layoffs of full-time employees, and beginning a policy requiring library staff to take two furlough days per month while working reduced hours at all remaining locations.
Starting this Friday, Oct. 1, the West Bergen Branch Library, 476 West Side Ave., will close its doors to the public. Then the Lafayette Branch Library, 307 Pacific Ave., will close on Monday, Nov. 1. Then the Marion Branch Library, 1017 West Side Ave., will close on Wednesday, Dec. 1.
Each storefront branch will vacate its premises by the end of the month its doors close. – Ricardo Kaulessar