"It's a very prominent position, overseeing and restocking metal boxes. Inside, you'll find a load of ducks. Cerillo says this all started when she crossed paths with a stranger. "I saw him once place an object on one of the railings, and I looked to see what it was and it was a duck," Cerillo said. She asked the mystery man if she could do the same, and he approved."
"Cerillo spotted a group of kids run up to the box mounted on a pole in Chelsea. "There was a whole crowd of kids around it and it just made my day, the joy it brought me, it was bringing them," Cerillo said. It's now a movement that's captured on Cerillo's Instagram page. She added a library on Seaman Avenue in Inwood, where we left an Eyewitness News duck, and another inside the library in Chelsea Piers."
""Here we are as adults, and we run into a duck and it's glorious," Cerillo said. This effort did recently hit rough water. Someone stole one of the libraries. That aside, Cerillo's wish is she wants people to put up more in their neighborhoods, which is something that's already happening. "There's one in Edinburgh, Scotland who wanted to do this, so I told her how and what to do and she does it," Cerillo said."
An anonymous person began hiding tiny plastic ducks on railings, creating the first 'duck library.' Dog walker JJ Cerillo maintains and restocks several metal boxes as the self-described duck librarian. Children gather at mounted boxes to take or leave ducks under a take-a-duck, leave-a-duck rule. Locations include Chelsea, a Seaman Avenue site in Inwood, and a box inside Chelsea Piers. The effort is shared on Instagram and has inspired others to create libraries in additional neighborhoods and overseas in Edinburgh, Scotland. One library was recently stolen, but the project continues to spread joy.
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