Privacy, safety, security—these are only a few of the reasons that homeowners build solid, durable garden walls. Although it’s immensely satisfying to construct ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

For two decades, motor vehicle infractions, code violations, citations for public drunkenness or fighting and other matters have been resolved in a plain-looking cinder-block building across the ...

Segundo Manuel Huerta Mayancela, an immigrant from Ecuador, died in 2019 as he worked in a Bronx building surrounded by relatives. By Liset Cruz Nearly four years after a Bronx building collapse ...

UNION SQUARE The cinder blocks broke away from an 11-story building under construction on West 14 Street just after 9 a.m. The blocks crashed through the roof of a neighboring office building, ...