Articles about “roof”
Man Breaks Both Legs After Falling Through Skylight At Bed-Stuy Roof Party
(Google Maps) A man was seriously injured after falling through the skylight of a roof in Brooklyn early Sunday, officials said. The 25-year-old man was attending a party in Bed-Stuy at 185 Malcolm X Boulevard when...
Peeing Woman Falls Off Manhattan Roof
(Google Maps) A young woman was seriously injured after she reportedly went to a Washington Heights roof to urinate and fell two stories onto the roof of an adjacent building. Her friend reportedly told 911 that...
Man & Woman Seriously Injured After Falling Off Bushwick Roof
Google Maps A man is in critical condition and a woman was injured after they both fell off the roof of an apartment building in Bushwick early this morning. "It looks like people were drinking and...
Man Dangling By His Ankle Three Stories Above Williamsburg Street Rescued By FDNY
A man plummeted off the roof of a four-story Williamsburg building on Tuesday night, only to become tangled in cable wiring on the way down, and find himself hanging precariously upside-down by one of his ankles, three...
Is Someone Living In This Rooftop Vintage Trailer In Brooklyn?
(Photo by Sophia Polin/Gothamist) If you can get a vintage Streamline trailer up to the roof of a building in NYC, shouldn't you just be allowed to keep it there? That should be the rule. However,...
Photos: JFK Airport Now Has An Open-Air Roofdeck
Once you pass through security in an airport, you are locked in until your departure, which can become a horrible experience if you get stuck with a long layover. If you're at JFK, however, now you'll find...
Another Rustic Rooftop Paradise Has Been Found On The Upper East Side
How many rooftop residences are secretly hiding out above the streets of NYC? Recently we have seen several rooftop properties that we would have preferred having no knowledge of, ever: we saw a rooftop cottage paradise in...
Woman Survives Fall Off Bed-Stuy Roof Into Pile Of Glass
1041-3 Bedford Avenue (Google Maps) A 24-year-old Bed-Stuy woman fell four floors from the roof of her apartment building down a 6-foot-wide air shaft last night, and survived. It is not immediately clear if she fell...
23-Year-Old Who Fell Off Greenwich Village Roof Has Died
via Google Maps Via LinkedIn The 23-year-old woman who fell off a roof while partying in Greenwich Village over the weekend has died, and officials have reportedly posted a vacate order outside the building. Cindy Yeh,...
[Update] 23-Year-Old Falls Off Greenwich Village Roof While Allegedly Partying
via Google Maps A 23-year-old woman fell off the roof of a Greenwich Village apartment early this morning. According to cops, the woman fell from the roof of a four-story residential building on Sullivan Street just...
Photos: Met Rooftop Garden Gets Green And Reflective
Another sign that spring is here, even if it's still grey and chilly out there: The Met has opened their rooftop garden. This year's site-specific installation was created by Dan Graham with Günther Vogt, and will be...
Bronx CVS Demolished After Roof Collapses From Snow Build-Up
Yesterday afternoon, a CVS at 694 Burke Avenue was evacuated when its roof started to collapse. Apparently employees "heard a creaking noise and saw tiles falling from the roof of the store," according to NY1. Now the store has been demolished.
Madonna Opens Up About Being Raped And Mugged Upon Moving To NYC
Madonna opened up in an intimate new essay about being raped and mugged when she first moved to NYC back in the late '70s. "New York wasn't everything I thought it would be," Madonna writes in...
Watch The NYPD Shut Down A Jefferson Airplane Rooftop Concert In 1968
Let's fully revisit that time in late 1968 when Jefferson Airplane took to the roof of the Schuyler Hotel in Manhattan to play a free concert, screaming to the city: "Hello New York! New York, wake...
Here's What The Roof Of The Washington Square Arch Looks Like
Photo courtesy of Eric Johnson In 1914, a group of artists—including John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp—climbed the spiral staircase inside the Washington Arch and gained access to the roof. Once there, they lit a bonfire and...
[Update] Blind Woman Stabbed Multiple Times, Possibly Thrown Off Apartment Roof
(tonyz20 / shutterstock) A legally blind woman was found stabbed behind a Bronx building yesterday, and police are investigating whether she was thrown off the roof of her building. According to cops, the 49-year-old woman was...
Teen Accused Of Tossing 9-Year-Old Off Roof Ate, Napped After Fall: "My Brain Froze"
Freddy Martin, Carmine Aska The 17-year-old boy accused of throwing his younger neighbor off of a Bronx rooftop repeated his assertions in a jailhouse interview that the incident was an accident—and he also tried to explain...
Teen Charged With Attempted Murder For Allegedly Throwing 9-Year-Old Off Roof
via NBC A teen was arrested after a 9-year-old fell off of a five-story roof in the Bronx yesterday. Police say the incident happened around 8:30 p.m. at 1545 Nelson Avenue in the Morris Heights section...
Video: Guys Spotted Riding On Top Of Party Bus Roof Through East Village
In this video, titled "Guys on top of a bus (roof) as it is driving in New York City," you will see just that. It's the art of idiocy at its finest, showing a group of...
14 Stunning Photos Of The Met Rooftop's "Cloud City"
One of the greatest annual events we look forward to each summer is The Met rooftop's seasonal rooftop exhibit. Throughout the years the artists given the massive space have ranged from Sol LeWitt to Roxy Paine to...
We Got Inside The Hotel Chelsea Yesterday, Here's What We Saw
Yesterday we were invited to the Hotel Chelsea to check out an art show (more photos and commentary on that later this week), and while there tried to get a closer look at the current state of...
Documents Show New Hotel Chelsea Owner Wants To Bring A Bar To The Roof
Photo by Sam Horine On March 21st, the Landmarks Committee of Community Board 4 voted to NOT recommend the Chetrit Group's proposal for an addition to the roof of the Hotel Chelsea. Rumor has been that...
Coming To The Met's Rooftop This Summer...
Yawn? The Metropolitan Museum of Art will not be bringing an exciting new rooftop installation to the masses this summer, instead we'll get a tame set of sculptures from British artist Anthony Caro, on view through...
Metrodome Roof Was Designed By Two NY Companies
Like many of you, we were pretty amazed at the footage of the roof of the Metrodome collapsing after a heavy blizzard this past weekend. The Giants were supposed to play the Vikings there, but ultimately defeated...
Man, Trying To Enter Apt. Through Window, Falls To Death
Harlem's Steven Wright and Lanecca Austin had gotten into a lover's quarrel late Wednesday night. It's unclear what they were fighting about, but around 5:30 Thursday morning, Wright tried to return to her 13th-floor apartment at...
New Law Would Close Bar Backyards at 10 on Weeknights
In this file photo of The Diamond, a lonely man contemplates a grim future without outdoor drinking after 10. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay out here, says Assemblywoman Joan Millman, who...
Roof Raff Cause Rift In Williamsburg Building
This is why you can't have anything nice, Williamsburg. Seems the residents at 132 North 5th Street (at the corner of Bedford) are all doing their part in keeping the common roof space a catastrophic mess....
The Rules Of Bambú
via the Met's Flickr So that bamboo thing that's been intricately and artistically weaved together on top of the Met? It's been unveiled (NewYorkology has some new photos), and so have the rules for a guided...
Teen in Coma Apparently Chased Robbers to Roof
According to police, the student who fell (or was pushed) off a roof this weekend while trying to flee robbers was actually the one who chased them onto the roof. The Daily News reports that Harry...
Rooftop Gunman Shoots At Least Three in Crown Heights
Police say the gunman fired from this roof. (WPIX) One day after NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly held a press conference in Crown Heights to publicize a sting on local merchants who sold marijuana, three teens were...