Correction: Windsor Terrace Library Opens Following Closure For Roof Construction

Editor's note: This is an update to a story originally published April 12.

WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN — The Windsor Terrace Public Library reopened Monday as scheduled, but construction of a new "green roof" is still ongoing outside.

The library had closed on March 13. Madeline Kaye, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn Public Library, incorrectly told Patch on Wednesday that the branch would remain closed during the construction, which was pushed back because of strong weather in later March.

Kaye told Patch on Thursday that the branch was actually open.

"While work on the new green roof at Windsor Terrace Library is ongoing, the work that remains to be done will not disrupt service at the branch, and as a result, it has been able to reopen," she said Thursday in a statement emailed to Patch. "Upon completion, the roof will help green the neighborhood with shrubs, perennial groundcovers and ornamental grasses."

Construction workers were on the library's roof Thursday and scaffolding still surrounds the property. The front door, though, was open and library patrons were inside checking out books.

The library had closed for what was originally billed as "roof repairs" — and later revealed to be construction on a cool new roof that will attract birds, help with storm runoff and cut down on energy bills.

The roof will include "plantings, including shrubs, perennial groundcovers, and ornamental grasses like sedum, witchhazel, butterfly weed, and carolina rose that will attract birds and other pollinators," according to a library announcement.

The library had been scheduled to re-open around "mid-April," Kaye had told Patch before issuing the correction.

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