Category: Masonry

Co-op Puts Skin in the Game to Stop Leaks

May 9th, 2013 by

Beauty, they say, is more than skin deep. At 33 Fifth Avenue, a luxury co-op in Greenwich Village, the board had to go more than skin deep to restore the beauty of their building and make it watertight. Time had...

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Masonry, History, Integrity—By the Book

January 20th, 2012 by

New York City has nearly one million buildings (975,000 by the DOB’s count), many of them prewar constructions with historic features that require regular maintenance and repair to guard against the ravages of time and weather. Yet for New York...

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