The "self-christened Wild Geese," six men and one woman, are zealous and idealistic and physically impressive; assigned to a high-crime precinct of the East Bronx, they are "preternaturally proactive, sometimes showing up at the trouble spots two steps ahead of the actors," and given to "chasing their prey through back yards and apartments, across rooftops, up and down fire escapes".
Today, at just under 500 feet high, the Smith Tower's pointy rooftop pokes up vainly among a forest of modern steel-and-glass high-rises, at least 15 of them taller and built mostly in the last few decades.
Because of the landscape of the built environment in urban areas, it has been suggested that rooftop locations (up to four stories in height) serve as representative locations for pollutant exposure monitoring (Chow et al. 2002).
Others threw themselves from rooftops, making up some of at least 14 suicides in that seven-year period.
Across the region, people scrambled to safety on their rooftops, packed up their belongings ahead of advancing floodwaters and piled into shelters.
Weekends during the ski season, angelabergavenny.com Once Upon a Wigwam is a rooftop pop-up at this bar and club, themed around the Brothers Grimm fairytales.
By Eugene Kinkead and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 26 , 1938P. 11 Talk story about penthouse gardening; bulbs, herbs, and hedge shrubs are being planted on rooftops all up and down Park Avenue.
Half medieval stave church, half Thai wat, its gleaming golden rooftops step up in successively larger segments, like the innards of a matryoshka doll huddling together in the field.
Typical photovoltaic panels on rooftops cost up to $8 per watt installed.
Even if they're on the rooftops go up there.
