Carroll Gardens Library Set to Reopen 12-01-2026

On October 7, 2026, I covered a Halloween decoration making light of the long-delayed reopening of the Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which I had first written about all the way back in 2023 (see Halloween and the Closed Carroll Gardens Library). This Halloween decoration is a skeleton, emerging from the ground, holding a white board which reads “R.I.P. THE CARROL GARDENS LIBRARY OPENING IN 2026.” In light of the fact that I had noted in prior articles that the Library, which was closed for renovations on July 21, 2023, with an initial 18-24 month time-frame, and had last year (2025) been projected to re-open in November 2025 and then summer 2026, I counted myself out of the Library prediction business. But was the skeleton wrong? Perhaps so. I quote from a October 15, 2026 report in The Carroll Gardens Times: It’s official: The Carroll Gardens Library will reopen on December 1, 2026, at 2pm. The prior projections, which I discussed in my article on the…