Author and educator, Jennifer Cruzado, has spent the last two years pushing for a free little library to open at Pelham Bay Park. <\/p>\n
The mother of two said the place holds sentimental value, as a place her family spends quality time in. <\/p>\n
“This is where my girls have built their community with their friends, and this is where they spend so much of their time,” said Cruzado. <\/p>\n
The 36-year-old has shared updates on TikTok over the last few months, from battling city approvals, unboxing the shed, and painting it by hand. <\/p>\n
The book shed will hold 75 books and will feature work from local storytellers. <\/p>\n
“We got an overwhelming amount of donations, and a lot of local Bronx authors want to donate and sign their copies of their books,” said Cruzado. <\/p>\n
Park officials picked up the completed book shed in February, but Cruzado has yet to hear back on when it will be set-up. <\/p>\n
“We have incredible stories and incredible people here. And we just need to highlight that a little bit more,” said Cruzado. <\/p>\n
A source at the Department of NYC Parks told News 12, the book shed will be installed in the coming days, depending on the weather. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author and educator, Jennifer Cruzado, has spent the last two years pushing for a free little library to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,1385,1384,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-196660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rebuilding","tag-rebuilding-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}