The New York Public Library is facing up to $75,000 in cleanup costs following recent pro-Palestinian protests in which demonstrators marred the famous façade of its landmark Manhattan building with blood-red handprints.
The library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman building in Midtown was defaced so badly during the demonstrations that some of its carved marble reliefs may need to be replaced, officials said. “On Thanksgiving, individuals involved in a protest engaged in a shameful act of vandalism to the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman building, a space devoted to the open exchange of ideas and intellectual debat