High-Rise Tower Building

Mass evacuations in Manhattan

Bricks fall from Manhattan high-rise, leading to discovery of buckling towers

Reports of falling bricks and buckling columns have forced evacuations in the area around a Midtown Manhattan high-rise office building that was being converted to luxury apartments, fire officials sa...

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Manhattan High-Rise To Be Stabilized After Columns Buckle, Forcing Evacuations

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Falling bricks and buckling columns at a Manhattan high rise force evacuations

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Manhattan Building’s Columns Buckled Beneath New Addition, Images Show

At least two structural columns buckled and failed in a 37-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, prompting evacuations of nearby streets and buildings.

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Evacuations ordered in Manhattan as officials warn of potential building collapse

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'Buckling' beams inside NYC high-rise trigger mass evacuations

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Confusion and uncertainty in Midtown following building’s near collapse

The former Pfizer office building, located at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Ave., was undergoing a massive renovation designed to turn it into housing when two interior columns began to buckle around 8 ...

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Video captures badly bent steel beams as midtown Manhattan high-rise appears to be on verge of collapse

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Building next to buckling Manhattan high-rise is declared safe, officials say

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Manhattan high-rise developer says new addition caused structural problems

The ambitious office-to-residential conversion added new construction to an existing building, causing supporting columns to buckle and steel beams to bend.

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Officials warn NYC high-rise remains unstable and could collapse

A Manhattan high-rise that once served as Pfizer's HQ was evacuated Tuesday morning after officials found "buckled" columns and "sagging" floors.

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New York hopes converted offices can ease a housing crisis. A structural emergency at a high-rise tower shows the challenges

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.

Unstable NYC building sparks evacuations surrounding Manhattan high-rise, collapse fears

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.