Homeowners in Brownstone Brooklyn are anxious about their rooflines. “Someone was giving out flyers today on my block … about ‘mandatory’ parapet wall inspections,” one wrote on a Brownstoner forum.

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Who knew that a large mound of earth, or basically a grassy hill, could be such an iconic Civil War historical site? I’m talking about the powder magazine at Camp Parapet, a ...

Today, it’s a fairly ordinary Jefferson Parish neighborhood, with modest but tidy homes co-existing shoulder to shoulder amid the hustle and bustle of the more commercially developed Causeway ...

Cleanup is now underway following a partial building collapse in Williamsburg on Sunday. Caution tape still surrounds the vacant building on the corner of Roebling and Hope streets, as cleanup crews ...

The grounds of a Civil War fortification in Old Jefferson will be the site of an annual observance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday for Camp Parapet Day. The Jefferson Parish Historical Society and ...

CYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A worker was killed after a parapet, or a rooftop wall, collapsed on him at a one-story garage in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon. It happened just before 3 p.m. at 113 ...

I noticed some deterioration on our parapet wall, and am trying to figure out what we need to do to fix it. In some spots, the brick face seems to have popped off. My guess is that some water is ...

Historic architecture made a clear distinction between the normal load-bearing wall up to the roof and the non-load bearing parapet wall on the terrace. In village homes if it was the simple mud wall ...