{"id":290063,"date":"2026-07-08T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:22:09","slug":"live-updates-nyc-officials-working-to-stabilize-high-rise-building-in-midtown-with-some-evacuations-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290063\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: NYC officials working to stabilize high-rise building in Midtown with some evacuations lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrbq6e0t000a3b6suppxedpx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Officials working to reinforce a Midtown Manhattan building after some of its support columns buckled will continue their efforts Wednesday after saying they made good progress, allowing many of those evacuated from nearby buildings to return.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrbqcpcp000c3b6ssa53wvcw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe are feeling confident that many of the emergency shoring measures that have been put in place \u2026 is stabilizing the situation,\u201d NYC Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani said Tuesday night.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote_block-quote__text  vossi-pull-quote_block-quote__text inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\">\n                    \u201cJacks are in place to hold up and stabilize where the weak points are, but they are also installing new steel as another emergency intervention, which is creating stability and allowing workers and material to move into place and keep the building in a stable situation,\u201d Tigani added, noting crews had not seen any further movement of the building, which is being renovated.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrbqntxs000e3b6s0kte2w5a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Crews were seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/07\/us\/live-news\/nyc-pfizer-building-evacuations?post-id=cmrbn4zia00003b6r7ks9s3g8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">working in the building<\/a> late into the night, placing additional supports in the area of the crumpled columns.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials working to reinforce a Midtown Manhattan building after some of its support columns buckled will continue their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10098,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-290063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-hnk","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290063","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=290063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}