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.

Does anyone know of what to do about crumbling bricks in a brownstone? If you touch the bricks (a few in the back and in the basement), they just crumble. I suspect some sort of water damage???

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Residents of an apartment building on Richmond’s northside are speaking out after what they say has been years of neglect by an absent landlord. On an overcast day in November, ...

City workers pulled out bricks in the driving lanes of Superior Street from Lake Avenue to Fifth Avenue West in the last month and replaced them with an asphalt surface before Grandma's Marathon. The ...

Revamping crumbling colored brick on two downtown Fargo intersections likely won't start until 2011, say city engineers. Until then, expect concrete and asphalt patches on the intersections of ...