Yasaman Mahdi co-authored this blog. She is currently a law clerk at Cole Schotz P.C. As of January 1, 2024, New York City will require that all building parapets facing the public right-of-way ...

Lessons not learned are doomed to be repeated. As the ol’ professor, Francis Brannigan, so famously said, “The building is your enemy; know your enemy.” This phrase was never so true as when it ...

Homeowners in Brownstone Brooklyn are anxious about their rooflines. “Someone was giving out flyers today on my block … about ‘mandatory’ parapet wall inspections,” one wrote on a Brownstoner forum.

Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom have investigated how parapet height affects dust accumulation on rooftop PV systems. They found that parapet walls substantially ...