Exclusive | NYC librarian quits after endless parade of nude nutjobs, unhinged patrons, and a thug who threatened to cut off her fking toes

It’s a chapter she’d like to forget.A Bronx librarian was forced to quit her job because she was traumatized by the unending parade of unhinged patrons — including one who flopped around on the floor naked, and another who threatened to “cut off [her] f–king toes,” according to a lawsuit.Kelly Coffey said her New York Public Library horror story began after she started as a senior librarian in the young-adult sections of the Parkchester branch in November 2022.An agitated man came in, talking to himself and looking for his phone, according to Coffey and court papers.“He had his hands in his pockets” and suddenly “pulled his hands out and started screaming.”Coffey — who said she now struggles with anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder — feared the man had a gun.“I was hiding behind a column.

That’s when everybody ran.… If he did have a gun, he would have been pointing it at seven teenagers.”A security guard, who had allegedly been glued to his phone, ran away along with other staffers, Coffey, 46, claimed.

Then the maniac ripped his clothes off.“When he got fully naked that’s when I actually” blocked the stairs leading to the children’s area, she said.The episode lasted about 20 minutes.She was stunned, but for her co-workers “it was just another day at the library and that’s when I really became concerned.

I said to them, ‘This is not normal.'”In a “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” moment in July 2023, a man enterd in only his underwear, exposing himself to Coffey and two teenagers, she claimed.Coffey repeatedly told supervisors she felt unsafe and questioned a lack of action from security, but was chastised for “escalating” incidents and complaining, she said.“I was told I’m ’emotionally fragile,’ and I’m ‘too emotional,’ and I’m ‘being dramatic,'” she said.The constant chaos left her full of “dread and despair” and turned her “dream job … into a nightmare,”...