Debris blows from roof of Brooklyn Heights Library, worrying neighbors
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Neighbors contacted the city’s Buildings Department on Sunday after loose construction debris blew from the roof of the former Brooklyn Heights Library.
“Thank God nobody was hurt by the heap of flying 9-foot-long metal shards,” Heights resident Justine Swartz told the Brooklyn Eagle. “The construction debris should have been bagged and dumped in a dumpster.”
Swartz took multiple photos of a pile of roof flashing, which became unsecured during Sunday’s high wind and was gradually blown into a corner of the roof and then over the edge of the building located at 280 Cadman Plaza West at Clinton and Tillary streets.