Construction for buckling New York building
Steel beams in the tower’s middle floors nearly snapped, forcing officials to clear the building and evacuate nearby towers while engineers stabilized the structure.
- Steel beams in the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown nearly snapped on Tuesday, prompting City officials to evacuate the building and neighboring towers while closing several blocks in one of the country's busiest sections.
- After office buildings emptied during the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City officials enacted tax breaks and incentives to convert old commercial structures into apartment complexes and address the housing shortage.
- "You have to account for everything that happens to a building structurally," said Eugene Gurevich, a principal and forensics team leader at the engineering firm RAND, noting conversions demand intensive investigation monitored by the Department of Buildings.
- The specific mechanism of failure remains under investigation; Chiara said the rare structural failure should not impact other conversion projects going forward because "this is something that rarely, rarely happens."
- Department of City Planning data shows more than 3,000 housing units added through conversions since 2020, with more than 2,000 units currently under construction across New York City as rezoning allows further expansion.
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Union Steamfitters prevent catastrophic midtown Manhattan building crash
NEW YORK—In all the worries and angst over loss of jobs nationwide, what is often overlooked is that there are certain skills, observations, and alertness only humans can perform—such as preventing a catastrophic building collapse in midtown Manhattan. That’s what happened at 235 East 42nd Street on July 7, when two members of Steamfitters Local […]
For a while, there was also a risk of partial collapse.
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Noticias ao MinutoTwo of the 37 floors of Pfizer's former headquarters have sunk. Four buildings remain under total evacuation order. Ongoing works will transform the office building into apartments.
In a 37-story New York skyscraper, two columns suddenly deform during the construction work. The area around the building is one of the most operational in the millions metropolis. Mayor Mamdani now declares the situation safe again.
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