Fourteen years after going up, a sidewalk shed in Harlem has finally come down. Dismantled Oct. 5 to the great joy of area residents, the shed was one of thousands of ugly steel-and-wood structures ...

Fatal collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 ignited interest in the safety of public-occupancy outdoor-event structures, which in many cases are not engineered to resist ...

The laws of physics say what comes up must come down. But the even more powerful law of sidewalk sheds says these ugly steel and plywood structures can come up and stay in place for years. Manhattan ...