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‘Buckling' beams at Manhattan high-rise under construction trigger mass evacuation (www.nbcnewyork.com)

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Two structural support beams on the 21st floor of a 37-story under-construction building in Manhattan started buckling Tuesday morning, triggering a mass evacuation, street closures and a large emergency response, officials say.

The FDNY said it got a call around 8 a.m. about bricks falling from the building at 235 East 42nd Street, between Second and Third avenues. The NYPD says it got a 911 call about the incident less than 15 minutes later.

When cops got to the scene, the NYPD says officers were told that construction workers on the 21st floor of the commercial building saw the columns beginning to collapse.

Raw footage from inside, taken by a construction worker, showed crumbling steel beams on the 21st floor.

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer_Building

The former headquarter consists out of 2 buildings, a 10 story one from 1905 and a 32 story one from 1960. Pfizer was using both since 1974 and moved out in 2023. Now with the conversion to residential, the builders were adding 19 stories to the lowest building + renovating the taller one.

Based on where the bricks were falling, I think the buckling is occurring in the taller 1960s building, which should just be a non structural renovation/conversion ... strange. My guess is that they overloaded the top floors by storing building materials there, but this is just a wild guess.