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Posted on 07/07/2026 11:34:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan high-rise that was under construction when columns buckled and bricks tumbled into the street below during the Tuesday morning rush hour remained unstable and was still moving, forcing nearby buildings to evacuate, officials said.
The 1970s-era office building was being converted to luxury apartments, and is the former global headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. It’s located in a busy corridor about a block from the landmark Chrysler Building and between Grand Central Terminal and the United Nations headquarters.
A nearby school with about 400 children was among the evacuated buildings, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. There were no reports of injuries and all workers inside the office tower were accounted for, he said at a press conference at the scene.
Mamdani said engineers are working on ways to shore up the damaged floors and using drones to monitor the building, so that they don’t have to send people in.
“The building remains unstable,” he said. “This is an extremely serious situation.”
Fire Department Chief John Esposito added that the building has continued to move as emergency officials have been on scene. Nearby streets were closed to people and vehicles.
“It is not yet stable,” Esposito said. “It is still a very serious and dangerous situation.”
The Fire Department of New York said it received reports of bricks falling at around 8 a.m. from the 37-story tower. Officials found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and that floors were sagging between the 21st and 26th floors.
The office-to-residential conversion has been billed as the largest in the city’s history, according to Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project. The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower while also redesigning...
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If it falls, what’s the over/under on if mayor Mad-Mani can resist yelling allahu akbar? (Not not be confused with Admiral Akbar, the Ole Miss mascot).
Communist is in charge about a month - and already buildings are falling apart, LOL
*I hope I don’t have to explain that’s a joke, but without this bit, I’m afraid one or two wouldn’t.
Another little something for the neighbors to think about, lest they become too relaxed.
I wonder what they were planning on charging to rent the new apartments? That plan will be on hold until an army of structural engineers gets to inspect the entire structure. A picture I saw suggests that the failed columns are old ones.
Mamdani should track down and shoot all the architects and contractors involved.
After all, that’s what Stalin would have done.
Yeah. No.
It’s a bit funny to note that Pfizer seems to always successfully offload liability, in multiple venues.
“Hey Juan, you do know that all of those were load bearing beams you just cut, right?”
If that building actually collapses it will cause extensive damage to surrounding structures and to infrastructure. The cleanup and repairs will cost over a billion dollars. Local businesses will lose probably a billion more. Mamdani will soon be making very nice to President Trump.
That plan will be on hold until an army of structural engineers gets to inspect the entire structure.
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Good luck on finding any engineer who would be willing to do that inspection....
Pfizer is Pfalling
Or running for President.
Undergoing conversion to apartments.
I’m sure the renovation had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Mafia quality construction?
They should have gone with the abattoir.
How did they find a structural engineer who was willing to sign off on the renovations in the first place? Adding 12 stories on top of 37 stories that were never designed to hold another 12 stories on top when new, after those 37 stories already went through approximately 50 years of use and environmental exposure ... what engineer signed off on that?
It looks like it’s a miracle already that no one died from this fiasco!
Pfizer Pfalling in very funny and I wish it would fall down it for all of the damage their disgusting shots did to people..
In the 1930s when my grandfathers, uncles and great grandfathers were building NYC, they were able to put up the Chrysler, the Empire State bldg (in 9 months), the Bridges, with ornamental plastering, stonework and stained glass, which still stand today.
Well…they’d better get some guards at the Cathedral. The Irish women raised the money for St Pats, it was always said. The 60% of foreign born population in nyc will be looking at that just for the demoralization value
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