IMBY: A Rear Window View of Brooklyn's South Slope

When driving by you might mistake this construction site for just one more of the many generic luxury condominium developments being built ...

The Bathtub Now that the base slab is complete, hopefully the tangent piles will be secure. Finishing this aspect of the foundation's d...

- Detail from the Museum of Natural History. I love a good diorama. Still life is in the details. A plastic fly placed strategically on an ...

Pictured below Looking north and east. Surrounded by re bar, the square base of the passenger elevator is now visible in the foreground. Pic...

O nce upon a time, 15 th Street between 7 th and 8 th Avenues was a long, dark, desolate place where you could clandestinely strip a ...

Immobliliara Builders Corp. , the foundation contractor for Armory Heights, LLC . is now being allowed to work Saturdays by the Dept. of B...

Rear end of 1504 Eighth Avenue. I have been trying for weeks to attract a more upscale kind of clientele to our blog. I have finally succee...

In what's becoming an all too familiar sight in the South Slope--property owners openly engaged in the architectural equivalent of the f...

The basement, cellar, and subcellar tangent pilings get covered with concrete.

The sad truth. Unscrupulous developer teams up with dangerously inept foundation contractor and equally inept engineering firm, to build in ...

The Dimora 361 Sixteenth Street. "21 Streamlined Lofty Residences with soaring ceilings throughout each apartment, gives these modern c...

Veiled scaffolding went up this weekend as workers prepare to remove and replace the damaged rear brick facade of 1504 8th Avenue. There is...

DIY Tip of the day . A reader writes in that they have these annoying cracks forming in recently poured concrete pile caps and do we at IMBY...

Press Release May 16, 2007 Buildings Department Accepts 2007 Sheldon Oliensis Ethics In City Government Award Department Honored for Commit...

Contractor crackdown Wednesday, May 30th 2007 New York has enjoyed a historic building boom as a rising economy has sparked housing constr...

Cracks in the foundation Buildings Department fails as construction booms By MICHAEL GOODWIN DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST Wednesday, May 30th 2007 ...

O ne step closer towards the completion of the bottom slab. Once finished, this reinforced concrete sub-cellar floor slab will tie together ...