Others remember picnicking on the tenement roof, known as tar beach, and knocking on the radiator pipe for more heat or less noise.

They had built a veritable bunker rising seven feet above the tenement roof.

The rope from the tenement roof, the furnace tunnel from the cellar - it was far from luck.

Helpless to halt his slide, Kane floundered over the edge and dropped back to the tenement roof.

"Brooklyn," Francie proclaims, gazing in starlight at the church spires and tenement roofs.

He heard the men moving up on the tenement roof.

The bare tarred surface is indistinguishable from any tenement roof.

He told of a social worker, lured onto a tenement roof, raped repeatedly and thrown off the building to her death.

She froze, staring upward but not really seeing the white crow on the peak of the tenement roof.