Painting the City White - Over a Million Square Feet of White Roofs

October 13, 2010
With a soft, squishy thrust of a roller, the CoolRoofs program painted its millionth square foot of white roof on top of a housing project in the Bronx Wednesday. To celebrate the coverage, sporting an orange T-shirt just like the other volunteers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped roll that patch into place.

CoolRoofs is one of several programs that is painting black roofs white, and they hope it will spark a city-wide trend among building owners.

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