Articles about “rooftop”
DUMBO Building Owner Fined For Airbnb Roof Rentals
One of the rooftop rooms (Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement) While the vast majority of New York's Airbnb hosts have managed to skirt the law prohibiting short-term sublets, it appears the city is taking a harder...
15-Year-Old Girl Dies Attempting To Jump Across Hell's Kitchen Rooftops
via Facebook A 15-year-old girl fell to her death yesterday after she attempted to jump between rooftops in Hell's Kitchen. Police say that Chelsea resident Natalia Jimenez was on the roof of a building at 10th...
Everything We Know About That Strange 1920s Brooklyn Rooftop
(Courtesy of the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection) Yesterday we became fascinated by three photos from the Brooklyn Library archives, all showing the same adobe-style house, which existed nearly a century ago in Brooklyn. All we...
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,...
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...
Some Urban Homesteader Is Living In A Bucolic Cabin On A Roof In Manhattan
Flying above New York City in a helicopter can be a beautiful thing, until you look down and see that someone has stolen and is living your dream life in a bucolic cabin on a rooftop in...
NYPD: Woman Was Forced Onto Bronx Rooftop And Raped
The police are hoping the public can help them identify a man accused of dragging a woman to a rooftop and raping her yesterday morning. According to the NYPD, the incident occurred in the Bronx at...
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...
$500 Gets You Into These Transparent Rooftop Bar Bubbles
Sometimes you want to go out so that you can stay in. So that you can be out but while There also seclude yourself from others you don't know (and frankly, don't care to know). So...
2nd Suspect Arrested For Raping, Throwing 16-Yr-Old Off Brooklyn Roof
725 Miller Avenue (Google Maps) Police have arrested the second suspect wanted in the rape and attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl on Sunday. Cops had already arrested Anwar Desouza but were still seeking Antonio Owensford....
Cops Come When Brooklyn Tomato Plant Is Mistaken For Pot Plants
Pot plant on the left, tomato plant (duh) on the right (Shutterstock) The super of a Prospect-Lefferts Garden building called the cops when he spotted some plants on the rooftop that looked like marijuana. Well, at...
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...
Williamsburg Community Board: New Bars Can't Have Backyards
Take those beers inside! (Flickr user loreleynyc) Williamsburg's Community Board 1, which you may recall as the group that wants to ban anything fun (namely, new liquor licenses and waterfront concerts), is at it again, putting...
Brooklyn Woman Fatally Shot While Protecting Children
Yesterday afternoon, a 34-year-old pregnant woman picking up one of her children from P.S. 298 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn was killed by gunfire from a rooftop. Zurana Horton apparently tried to shield the little...
Check Out Eataly's Big New Rooftop Beer Restaurant, Birreria
Don't call it a beer garden! The management of Birreria insist that even though their handsome new rooftop oasis atop Eataly is producing three cask-conditioned ales right there on the 15th floor, the establishment is most certainly...
Six Rooftop Bars That Will Keep You High, Not Dry
We think we can safely say that the worst of the winter is behind us. Which means it is now time to start looking forward to warmer weather and longer days—not to mention drunken nights staring at...
Rooftop Break-Ins Up in Bed-Stuy?
According to one resident, there has been a rash of rooftop break-ins in brownstones in Bed-Stuy. He wrote BedStuyBlog, "Just yesterday, we were burglarized by someone breaking through the entrance to our roof and literally taking...
Green Gardens Grow Above The City
Urban gardening! The Parks Department is currently getting their green thumb dirty growing 16 types of rooftop gardens in the city. Their aim is to see which mixture of soil and plants will work most efficiently...
After 3-Year-Old's Fatal Fall, ACS Removes Other Kids From Mom
Earlier this week, the body of a three-year-old girl was found on a Brooklyn sidewalk. It was later determined that Kyrah Martin had somehow gotten onto her new apartment building's roof and fell four stories to...
Little Girl Alone When She Fell From Brooklyn Rooftop
After a three-year-old girl was found dead, face down in a snow bank, outside a Weeksville apartment building, the superintendent told WCBS 2 "that a video camera captured pictures of the little girl alone on the...
Rooftop Farming in the South Bronx
Rooftop farm in Greenpoint With rooftop farms all the rage right now, it's nice to see the eco-trend has even made it over to the South Bronx. We're told "a new state of the art affordable...
Luxury Rental Imitates '60s TV Show With Rooftop "Waterfall Shower"
Photograph, at left, of 200 Water Street's waterfall shower from The Real Deal; at right, from the opening of Petticoat Junction There's been excitement about the "waterfall shower" atop the roof of downtown luxury rental building,...
New Restaurants on the Radar: Hudson Terrace, Chocolate Bar, Watty & Meg
Hudson Terrace Hudson Terrace: After operating as a private event space last year, this gorgeous bi-level aerie with the commanding Hudson River views opens to the public for the first time tonight with a Cinco de...
Charred Body Found on Bronx Rooftop
A Bronx neighborhood was shocked by the discovery of human remains on the roof of an apartment building. Acting on a family's missing person report for their daughter, the police headed to an apartment on Marion...
This Just In: Rooftop Water Tank Collapses on 54th
If you're wondering what the hell's going on in Hell's Kitchen right now, reader Ed writes in to tell us that around 12:45 p.m. the water tower on top of the now defunct Sony Studios building...
Studio B Keeps Workin' Despite Stop Work Orders
Two years ago Studio B promised/threatened to bring Miami to Greenpoint, and for better or worse, the venue/club/bar has delivered ever since. Currently they're raising the bar by creating a palm tree adorned rooftop oasis -- and...
Studio B Adds Rooftop Bar; Neighbors Already Complaining
Add a koi pond, some palm trees and a wood patio to a New York roof, and you probably get to raise the drink prices by a few bucks (see: The Delancey). Add those things (minus the...
Jeff Koons Atop The Met
All photos by thelexiphane at flickr Jeff Koons' rooftop installation at The Metropolitan Museum opened today, featuring three stainless steel sculptures with transparent colored coatings. The three pieces are Balloon Dog (Yellow), Sacred Heart (Red/Gold), and...