{"id":290574,"date":"2026-07-08T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290574\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:40:07","slug":"israels-new-york-consulate-to-reopen-with-police-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290574\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s New York Consulate to reopen with police approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel’s New York<\/a> Consulate will reopen on Thursday, with police approval, following safety issues at a nearby building, Walla learned on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Consular employees were evacuated from the 2nd Avenue building on Tuesday after being alerted that the nearby building was at risk of collapsing<\/a>, with Consul-General Ofir Akunis noting that “all consulate employees were evacuated safely.”<\/p>\n

Officials said the nearby 37-story building, currently being converted from an office building to residential apartments, was deemed a safety risk after its support beams began buckling.<\/p>\n

New York City Fire Department officials responding to the scene found two buckled columns on the 21st and 22nd floors of the 42nd Street building, with multiple floors sagging as a result.<\/p>\n

Besides the consulate, other nearby buildings, including a school, were evacuated, and streets were closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> spoke to reporters at the scene on Tuesday, saying that the building “remains unstable.”<\/p>\n

The mayor noted that the concern was the building’s continuous movement hours after the incident began.<\/p>\n

According to Mamdani<\/a>, a team of emergency responders and engineers was working to access and secure the site.<\/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,” he said.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel’s New York Consulate will reopen on Thursday, with police approval, following safety issues at a nearby building,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[449,7438,60,9,24,55,54,56,104,820],"class_list":["post-290574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-building-collapse","tag-firefighter","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-police","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290574","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=290574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}