{"id":289439,"date":"2026-07-07T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:30:22","slug":"midtown-manhattan-high-rise-evacuated-after-alarming-structural-damage-sparks-collapse-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289439\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown Manhattan high-rise evacuated after alarming structural damage sparks collapse fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">A major emergency unfolded in Midtown Manhattan after structural damage was discovered inside a 38-story building undergoing renovations.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Construction workers reported buckled steel columns, sagging floors and falling bricks, prompting officials to evacuate the building along with several neighboring properties as engineers rushed to assess the danger.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Authorities closed portions of East 42nd and 43rd Streets while emergency crews secured the area. No injuries were reported as the investigation into what caused the structural failure continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major emergency unfolded in Midtown Manhattan after structural damage was discovered inside a 38-story building undergoing renovations.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-289439","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289439","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=289439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}