The New York Public Library is surprisingly CHUD-friendly

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/15/the-new-york-public-library-is.html

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Hmm…want’s a pneumatic tube system for moving the book like the Library of Congress used to use. http://pneumaticpost.blogspot.com/2015/04/librarys-keynote.html

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Where’s the Art History section? I’m with a girl and we’re in a rush to get to second base.

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Holy cow, someone else watched C.H.U.D.!

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I hear this is the most popular book on the lower stacks:

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I find the New York Public Library a surprising choice for lunch and the access is wonderful.

So many dark corners.

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So will somebody chime in here and explain WTF is a CHUD?

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A cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller, as from the movie of the same name. I still don’t know what it has to do with the NYPL.

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Sewer-dwelling mutants from the '80s cult-classic horror flick of the same name.

No, the headline still doesn’t make sense.

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They live/d in NYC sewers

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Disagree.

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Reiterate original statement.

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Reiterate original retort.

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GOTO 10

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sys 64738

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Also surprisingly CHUD friendly: shopping mall basements. Let me just open up the telepsychotronic heat radiation shield here and show you.

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Seems legit.

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It also looks hospitable to a free-floating full-torso vaporous apparition!

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CHUD?

What about Erik living in the uncharted depths of the Paris Opera? (Not the ALW one)

I could be the Phantom of a Library.

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