Manhattan high-rise to be stabilized
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The ambitious office-to-residential conversion added new construction to an existing building, causing supporting columns to buckle and steel beams to bend.
New York City has bet heavily on converting aging office buildings into apartments to help ease a housing shortage. But the threat of a partial collapse Tuesday by one such conversion in progress highlighted the significant challenges of those construction projects.
A Manhattan high-rise that once served as Pfizer's HQ was evacuated Tuesday morning after officials found "buckled" columns and "sagging" floors.
A Midtown Manhattan high-rise building was evacuated Tuesday morning after authorities said it was at risk of collapsing. The 38-story building at 235 East 42nd Street was once the corporate headquarters for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
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Some evacuation orders and street closures remain as work continues on a NYC high-rise that buckled
Crews worked through the night to shore up a massive, under-construction apartment building in Manhattan after columns buckled and floors sagged, triggering widespread evacuations and street closures
Crews are making progress in their effort to stabilize an under-construction Midtown Manhattan building that was evacuated Tuesday after structural columns buckled. Follow for live updates.