Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said.<\/p>\n\u201cThe building remains unstable,\u201d Mamdani said at a news conference at the scene. \u201cThis is an extremely serious situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fire Chief John Esposito said the way the steel-framed building is constructed, \u201cit would not be a total collapse, it would be more of a localized collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahmed Tigani, the city\u2019s building commissioner, said officials had not seen evidence that debris fell off the building. Nevertheless, nearby streets remained closed to people and vehicles. Mamdani said there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n
The office-to-residential conversion would add more than a dozen stories and redesign an adjoining tower, according to Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project. With more than 1,600 units, it has been billed as the largest conversion in the city\u2019s history, Gensler says.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Gensler did not return a voicemail and email seeking comment.<\/p>\n
Officials found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and floors were sagging between the 21st and 26th floors.<\/p>\n
First responders and city officials were working closely with the project engineer to develop plans to shore up the impacted flooring, Mamdani said. If it\u2019s deemed to be secure, engineers will enter and begin making repairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a minute-by-minute assessment,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n
The building commissioner said workers will need to add emergency beams and columns to stabilize the compromised ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur top priority right now,\u201d the mayor said Tuesday morning, \u201cis the safety of those who live in this area and the safety of those who work in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min NEW YORK \u2014 An under-renovation high-rise in Manhattan was still unstable Tuesday after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[110668,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-289551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-high-rise-manhattan-evacuated-buckling-columns-falling-bricks-streets-closed-renovation-pfizer-mamdani","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\/289551","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=289551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}