A Midtown Manhattan high-rise building was evacuated Tuesday after authorities said it was at risk of collapsing. Approximately 150 fire and EMS personnel are on the scene.
New York City has bet heavily on converting aging office buildings into apartments to help ease a housing shortage. But the threat of a partial collapse Tuesday by one such conversion in progress ...
The office-to-residential conversion added new construction to an existing building, causing supporting columns to buckle and steel beams to bend.
Two columns on the 21st floor of a building under construction in Manhattan buckled Tuesday morning, triggering a slate of street closures and a large emergency response, according to the FDNY. The ...