“Extremely serious situation”: Evacuations ordered as NYC high-rise building at risk of collapse

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An area of Manhattan was evacuated on Tuesday as officials deemed a high-rise that was under construction to be at risk of collapse. Firefighters were called to the 37-storey office tower, a former Pfizer headquarters being converted into luxury apartments, after reports of bricks falling from the high-rise. Nearby buildings, including a school with approximately 400 children, were evacuated after crews determined support beams inside the building had buckled and that, as a result, it had become unstable. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said engineers were using drones to monitor the building and working to stabilize it. The tower is part of the city’s largest office-to-residential conversion project, with over 1,600 planned units. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@globalnews.ca?lang=en #nyc #GlobalN

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