EditorialThe 113-year-old Charles Street garage, where city officials have documented cracked ceilings, exposed rebar and other problems since 1988, in the Greenwich Village section of New York, May 11, 2023. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
EditorialThe 113-year-old Charles Street garage, where city officials have documented cracked ceilings, exposed rebar and other problems since 1988, in the Greenwich Village section of New York, May 11, 2023. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers place a rebar frame before pouring a concrete pylon while building the replacement for the destroyed Irpin Bridge, which was demolished to stop Russian forces from crossing the Irpin River, in Irpin, Ukraine, April 24, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialDeyonna Hancock, center, lays rebar on an affordable housing project near the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, Calif., Jan. 28, 2022. (Chloe Pang/The New York Times)
EditorialThe border wall construction site in Guadalupe Canyon, where wall construction has been suspended, in southeast Arizona, Feb. 11, 2021. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialRebar slicer with carving and year 1751, Rebar slicer with carving and year 1751. Decorated as a carving slicer., anonymous, Netherlands, 1751, wood (plant material), iron (metal), oak (wood), beech (wood), l 13 cm ? w 9 cm ? d 19.5 cm.