NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) – A high-rise building under construction in Manhattan remained at risk of collapse on Tuesday after two of its \u200csupport columns buckled, officials said as engineers worked to stabilize the \u200cbuilding.<\/p>\n
The New York City fire department said it received a call just before 8 a.m. ET \u200babout bricks falling from the 37-story building located on 42nd Street, which is being converted from an office building to residential apartments.<\/p>\n
Officials responding to the scene found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and multiple floors of \u200cthe building were sagging, \u2060the department said.<\/p>\n
Nearby buildings, including a school, were evacuated and streets were closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, with no injuries \u2060reported.<\/p>\n
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the concern was that the building was still moving hours after the incident was reported. A team of emergency responders and engineers \u200bwere \u200bworking to access the site and secure \u200bit, he said.<\/p>\n
“The building remains unstable,” \u200cthe mayor told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n
“If the floor is deemed to be secure, engineers will enter and begin shoring up the building as we await the arrival of materials that will stabilize the building,” Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
John Esposito, chief of the Fire Department of the City of New York, said preparations for \u200ca partial collapse had been made but officials \u200bthought any collapse would be contained.<\/p>\n
“The way this \u200bbuilding is constructed, it’s a \u200bsteel frame building, so it would not be a total \u200ccollapse, it would be more of \u200ba localized collapse, but \u200bthat remains our concern that it’s moving,” he said.<\/p>\n
The building near Grand Central Terminal was once Pfizer’s corporate headquarters. It is being converted into \u200ba 1600-unit apartment building \u200cdue for completion in 2027, according to the architectural firm Gensler’s \u200bwebsite.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova in New York and Katharine Jackson in \u200bWashingtonEditing by David Ljunggren and Susan Heavey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) – A high-rise building under construction in Manhattan remained at risk of collapse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,54465,8506,82],"class_list":["post-289405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-office-building","tag-residential-apartments","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}