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Windsor Terrace library closing for year-and-a-half-long makeover
BY COLIN MIXSON
Brooklyn Public Library leaders will
close the Windsor Terrace branch on
Feb. 1 ahead of a year-and-a-half renovation
project, according to a spokeswoman
for the system.
The stacks are shuttering in order
to let the city’s Department of Design
and Construction replace the facility’s
aging climate-control system — which,
along with the rest of the 1969-built
branch, is approaching its 50th birthday,
said rep Fritzi Bodenheimer.
The makeover won’t just pertain to
the E. Fifth Street reading room’s heating
and-cooling system, however — library
leaders also plan to spruce up
the space with new shelves, signage,
and lighting, in addition to slapping a
fresh coat of paint into the decades-old
facility, Bodenheimer said.
“With new signage, lighting, and
paint, it will be a better experience,”
she said.
Once work begins inside the library,
patrons looking for a good read
can visit one of the system’s rolling
Waterway
on the
runway!
Calvin Klein selling jackets
in ‘Gowanus Black’ color
BY JULIANNE CUBA
“Gowanus Black” is the new black!
Brooklyn’s Nautical Purgatory is
offi cially trending among fashionistas,
with iconic New York City-based
brand Calvin Klein hawking jackets in
a hue called Gowanus Black.
The toxic Gowanus Canal is notoriously
fi lled with noxious sludge often
referred to as “black mayonnaise,” and
some Gowanusaurs speculated that
the gross stuff lurking at the bottom of
the fetid waterway served as the inspiration
for the jackets’ color — which to
the naked eye looks no different than
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CHECKING OUT: Brooklyn Public Library leaders will close the Windsor Terrace Branch on
Feb. 1 to accommodate a year-and-a-half-long renovation project. File photo by Caleb Caldwell
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New year, new groove!
A quartet of classic-rock fans in their best Elvis-inspired swimsuits paid homage to the King as they dove into 2019 during the New
Year’s Day Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge on Jan. 1, which drew thousands of brave souls who dared to start the next 12 months
with a dip in the frigid Atlantic Ocean. For more from the plunge, see 24-Seven. Photo by Erica Price
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