A garbage truck hit a parked vehicle, pushing it into the scaffolding, the police said. By Samantha Latson A woman in East Harlem was killed Tuesday morning when a garbage truck hit a parked vehicle, ...

A controversial 140-year-old, only-in-New York law that holds property owners and contractors responsible for all falls on construction sites, even in instances of worker negligence, has caused ...

(The Center Square) — New York’s “scaffold law” is driving up insurance costs and draining billions of dollars from the state’s economy, according to a new trade industry report, which is renewing ...

Any New York leader who cares about “affordability” will cheer Rep. Nick Langworthy’s effort to rein in the state’s obscene “Scaffold Law.” President Donald Trump, and anyone who’s built anything in ...

Researchers engineered an injectable silica-based scaffold that trains the immune system to attack S. aureus on medical implants, cutting bacterial load dramatically and even clearing infection ...

HONG KONG — Kan Shui-ying was home alone on Wednesday, watching television at her Hong Kong apartment while her husband and son were at work. It was around 3 p.m., she said, when she “smelled a strong ...

The Hong Kong residential towers engulfed by smoke and flames on Wednesday were surrounded by an ancient construction material familiar to anyone who’s spent time in the one of the world’s most ...

HONG KONG, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's deadliest fire in three decades has highlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries ...

Last month, authorities removed the scaffolding covering the western facade of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Since then, lucky pilgrims to this legendary 5th-century B.C.E. temple—which accepts ...

Ask New Yorkers what keeps them up at night, and many will say the same thing — the cost of housing. In a recent survey, more than half the respondents said they might have to leave the city because ...

The city has enacted new laws to reduce the length of time for scaffolding and sidewalk shed permits. But you can take more direct action. By Jill Terreri Ramos Q: We live in a building in Manhattan ...