You know that book that you’ve owed the library forever that you’re assuming no one will find out about? Louise Sylvia Katz probably thought the same thing—but now, 86 years later, discoveries are still being made around her tiny indiscretion.
According to Gothamist, when 97 Orchard Street was being turned into the Tenement Museum in the late 1980s, an overdue slip from Seward Park Library was found in one of the mailboxes. The slip, addressed in 1928 to Katz, a former resident of the building, is now on display in the Sweatshop Workers Tour at the Tenement Museum.
