Last week, I fielded no fewer than five phone calls from homeowners with the same grim news. They found it nearly impossible to get quotes from contractors to do fairly simple repairs. Each caller’s ...

I am a renter in a beautiful duplex brownstone in Carroll Gardens. We have exposed brick walls in the kitchen, with a non-working brick fireplace. The owner has chosen not to seal the interior brick.

One of the tallest structures in western Berks County will soon be no more, as the smokestack of the former Noble and Horst Hosiery factory is brought down by crane. Reading-based Empire Services is ...

TROY — Decaying relics of an earlier model of urban planning will be demolished at a western entrance to Troy and become the latest in a long line of high-rise public housing projects nationwide to be ...