New York hopes converted offices can ease a housing crisis. A structural emergency at a high-rise tower shows the challenges
New York City has bet heavily on converting aging office buildings into apartments to help ease a housing shortage. But the ...
New York skyscraper on brink of collapse
A 37-storey skyscraper in the centre of New York City is shifting and at risk of collapse. Pfizer’s former headquarters in ...
Evacuated Manhattan Building Is Stable for Now, City Official Says
New York City’s buildings commissioner said late Tuesday that the building was stable for now, hours after officials set up a ...
It Was the Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion in New York City History. Then It Started to Buckle
Earlier today, two of the columns on the building’s 21st floor started to collapse, prompting an evacuation.
Unstable NYC high-rise is showing 'continual movement', fire official says
FDNY Chief of Department John Esposito said Tuesday that the New York City high-rise deemed structurally unstable is showing ...
New Supports Have Made Building Stable, Mamdani Says
A Midtown high-rise that suffered structural damage was stable for now, New York City’s buildings commissioner said, but he warned of tense days ahead.