During finals week in May, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law students Matthew Kriegsman and Kenneth Renov placed a bin in their school's lobby to collect textbooks students no longer needed. They thought they'd get a few dozen throughout the summer. Instead, they got 650.

The collection bins were the first step in a new loan program where students struggling to afford textbooks and workbooks can borrow them from the school and return them at the end of the semester.