Structural columns supporting a high-rise in New York City’s Manhattan borough buckled on July 7, prompting evacuations.
Emergency personnel rushed to the 37-story building on East 42nd Street around 8 a.m. and found that two structural columns had buckled, as well as multiple cracks and sagging floors, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters during a briefing nearby.
Engineers and first responders are working on plans to shore up the building if it is deemed secure, Mamdani said.
Officials said a collapse is possible because there has been continued movement.
“It is not yet stable,” said John Esposito, the chief of department for the Fire Department of New York….