Thank you for this wonderful article. I spent many afternoons of my childhood in the Forest Hills branch of the Queens Library—which is wonderfully located down the block from P.S. 196 (my elementary school) and a few steps away from the E and F subway stations (which my parents took to their business in Manhattan)—thus I could spend after school hours studying until they got home from work. I've given a lot of credit over the years to my parents, the then-excellent NYC schools, and several major philanthropists, who paved the way for me to go to Princeton and the University of Virginia—but in my heart those early childhood years in the Forest Hills branch formed the base from which all else was possible. I work in the area of philanthropy and not-for-profit development and hope that someday I will be able, either personally or through client activities, to pay back some of what I owe the Forest Hills branch of the Queens public library.