According to my calendar, Passover started at sundown the 12th.
I have now found our Arby’s will be open, and the grocery store til 5.
The library may be closed on Easter, but I can assure you that no one is getting paid for it. Usually libraries rotate around Sunday assignments among the regular staff and give them a day off during the week. Part-timers would just be shifted to another day.
It makes sense to close because:
- not a lot of people would come in to begin with
- a lot of people would ask not to work that day, so you wouldn’t have a lot of staff to run the place
I’ve worked for library systems that also closed on Mother’s Day, but that was a convenient budget-cutting excuse.
I know the SCOTUS would not rule that way, but that is neither hare 
nor there. By closing for Easter you are basically saying that the non-Orthodox Easter is the real Easter. Kind of a “War on Orthodox Easter”.
Closing on a religious holiday for pragamatic reasons is fine with me, I just don’t think you want to have the govt choose what the official religious holidays are. You start to get into issues of what is the real sabbath, what version of the ten commandents is the correct one, etc.
But, as I said, this is a relatively trivial issue. Question for NYC dopers: any objection among Christians when schools and other govt offices are closed for Jewish High Holy days?
I know when Easter is because I look forward to it, because it’s one of the holy days of my faith, in some ways THE holiest day of the year. To expect someone else not of my faith to know when Easter is for us, simply so they’ll know when the library is closed, or the mall, or the gas station? Those seem like really secular uses of the religious name of the day-- rather like using irreplaceable photos of a loved one as scratch paper, or something.
Only the schools in NYC close for the Jewish High Holy days.They are usually also closed on Good Friday What objections there are tend to not be so much about the schools being closed on Jewish and Christian holidays- but about such things as a test being scheduled on a Muslim holiday.
Apparently Easter is named after the ancient Saxon fertility goddess Eastre. The association with with the fertility symbols of the hare and eggs originated back then. I’m amazed that the present day fundamentalists don’t object to to calling the holiday Easter or the practice of putting out eggs.
Also at my workplace, I never heard one complaint about us being closed for “Easter Sunday.”
Some people complained about us being closed, but those were people who either use the library to sleep in all day or wanted to get tax forms.
Our library in Topeka is open seven days a week. 9:00AM-9:00PM M-F, 9:00AM to 6:00PM Saturday, and noon to 9:00PM Sunday. But it closes for federal holidays, for Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas Eve and Day and New Year’s Eve and Day.
The library at which I work was open today - I’d taken this as one of my weekends to work so I’ve been home about 20 minutes (regular hours, open until 9). It’s an academic library though - and finals aren’t too far off for our students.
We should have been closed or on reduced hours, though. Not because it’s a holiday, but because most people assumed we were closed or were doing whatever they do on Easter, like family time, church or whatever - over the course of the day, I answered about 6 questions, with one of them over the phone (and most of them were not reference questions, but things like “where’s the bathroom?”. To me, this is a waste of resources - me, the circulation clerk and our student workers are all paid for being there (regular pay rates - I was the only salaried one there), plus the cost of having the building open. And the security guard, who is paid a holiday rate for being there today.