NYC high-rise ‘collapse zone’ leaves guests and locals scrambling for hotel rooms as street closures continue - The high-rise previously housed offices for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and was be

New York City has bet heavily on converting aging office buildings into apartments to help ease a housing shortage. But the threat of a partial collapse Tuesday by one such conversion in progress highlighted the significant challenges of those construction projects.

The buckling Midtown hi-rise dramatically evacuated over collapse fears Tuesday was cited multiple times last year for dangerous construction safety violations, The Post has learned. The city Department of Buildings slapped seven violations on the 38-story commercial building at 235 E.

New York, Jul 8 (PTI): The building housing the Permanent Mission of India to the UN was among the several premises evacuated in Midtown Manhattan after structural damage rendered an under-construction high-rise "unstable",