A New York public library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street will be renamed after the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, for donating $100 million dollars. This money will start a billion dollar expansion.
Mr. Schwarzman is a library trustee, and the chief executive of the Blackstone Group. The construction will not be complete until 2014.
"In an e-mail message on Monday. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, “With this donation, Steve is giving back to the city that gave him so much and is helping ensure that New York remains a cultural and intellectual capital of the world.”
I think that it is so great when the media publishes things like this. I love to see positive changes happening, whether it's here or there. I wish there were more positive than negative in the media.
Things like these remarkable donations are just inspiring. I hope it makes others want to do good too. I think by putting stories like this in the news it will make people stop and think. Do you think that the media still has a positive impact on people?
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I think it is amazing of this guy to give that much money to the library, to help New York stay the way it's been. I also think that by putting these inspiring stories in the news paper, tv, etc. people will stop to think about something they could donate money or objects to. With the medias help, I think our country can grow and be a better place.
This is an interesting piece. Finally, there is something positive in the media that can affect people in a good way. It is hard to believe that people like Schwarzman can give back to the community in order to enrich people's lives in a positive. I wish that there were more news like this one.
What a great individual. It takes more people like this to bring public knowledge to events and places here on our own country. It is always a great thing to remember where you came from and who helped you get there.
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