NYC building faces collapse risk
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Offices and hotels around East 42nd Street were evacuated after structural damage affected an office conversion project. Traffic was halted in the area. No injuries were reported.
A Midtown Manhattan tower undergoing the largest office-to-residential conversion in U.S. history has thrown parts onto the pavement below after two support columns buckled, forcing evacuations across nine buildings near Grand Central Terminal.
The developer of the former Pfizer building in Midtown said the building was never at risk of collapse and the repairs are fixable.
Buckling columns on a Midtown tower forced evacuations and street closures as city crews investigated the structural failure.
A full evacuation has been ordered at a building in Midtown Manhattan that is undergoing conversion from office space to luxury apartments
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