Midtown Manhattan building evacuated after structural failure warnings
Several buildings in Midtown Manhattan were evacuated Tuesday morning after officials discovered buckling support beams in a former office building that is being converted to residences.
Get off the cross, they need the wood!🤪😀 #FreePalestine4The epitome of greed. #NYC landlords and building owners.
dabxdee.bsky.social17 fines over $36K last year alone...
JJ1They were adding floors to get more Money. Tear it down and charge the owners.
Realbutterplease1Whoa! Owners need to be held accountable - that’s just bad, stupid bad.
Sugar Thief1I redeveloped a building in NYC. Fcking nightmare. Every rich person’s spouse is on some committee which has regulation authority over your project. Bricks are turning to dust. Screw you. You gotta reuse them or spend 2 years litigating. After ‘winning’ in court, the real fun begins. $$$$$$$$$$
Ben K 🌈1I remember when a bunch of old mills got converted to condos and realized that part of the problem was that the buildings being selected for conversion were the most problematic ones, the ones least appealing to commercial renters for businesses (unloading junk buildings).
Wondering about the civil engineer who signed off on the plans for that pfizer building that is currently collapsing in midtown. My understanding is they were trying to add stories to what was a 10 story building as part of an office to apartment conversion.
Tyler King13Wait. It was originally 10? And now it tops out at over 30? Is that a normal thing that happens? Just tossing 20 more floors on an old foundation?
Dr. Stephanie5Especially suspicious because the *speed* of doing conversions like that is supposedly the biggest way they save money.
Abolition, Dissolution, Prosecution, Conviction5Pfizer building having trouble remaining erect is a delicious irony
Rebecca Schoenkopf3oh no, I'm in love with office-to-apartment conversions!
kathydettmer.bsky.social3My daughter, a newly minted civil engineer, has been talking about this all night. She keeps showing me buckled something or others.
Dr. Stephanie1Here’s the NYT article about the conversion from last year (gift link):
a liquid oxygen tanker caught fire next to Bellevue and you have to avoid the area, and 40th-45th between 1st and 3rd is frozen because the Pfizer building might collapse, and miraculously no one was hurt in either place but it’s a good day to avoid midtown east if you can
Joshua J. Friedman39Helpful NYT map with UN building 😬
Anjali Dayal14I missed most of this match because I had a meeting but I see the World Cup has been as exciting and fraught as anyone trying to do anything in midtown east
Robert Rosenthal6Wow! I guess we're learning something about office to residential conversions. Whoever stopped long enough to take a photo of that bending beam reacted a bit differently than I would've!
Julia Rose Kraut4WTF is happening in Midtown East today?! It's only 2pm and already a nightmare.
Greg Etling3Don’t forget about Legionnaire’s on the UES!
Ducky Krup2It’s ALWAYS a good day to avoid midtown east though
Hypatia L.A. Seneschale4What is happening in Gotham? This sounds like the set-up to an episode of Batman: The Animated Series where Bats has to decide which scene to respond to first.
Jake Simpson2Also, be on the lookout for robotic form skeletons, intent on kill a specific woman. Avoid, if you can.
Here's what we know about the building in Midtown Manhattan that is at risk of collapse.
pinkprincessinthecity •🌸🌃🧳•👩🏻🎨👩🏻🔬🕵🏻♀️👩🏻🏫👩🏻💻👩🏻🍳•🏮🧧🎍•7Architecture, an interdisciplinary field, is a combination of art and design with science and math. Particularly when it comes to building sciences and materials sciences. Adaptive reuse conversion with expansion challenges all of this in load bearing and stress points where corners cannot be cut.
Cecilia Tan5Whooooops. Maybe adding 10 floors at the top wasn’t such a great idea? (More likely: all the construction materials and equipment to build those new floors, stockpiled in certain areas… exceeded the load capacity of some columns and it worsened from there…)
The Pfizer World Headquarters, currently undergoing the largest office-to-residential conversion in the US (and therefore probably the world), is at risk of collapse: “The north side of that building is crumbling...I-beams are bending like cigarettes in there.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/n...
Stephen Jacob Smith6The developer is making this out to be a very minor issue www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Sic Transit PHL4That ain't good, and it's *not* gonna buff out. Q1: Presuming that the building is beyond saving at this point, is there a way to bring it down safely? Q2: Am I correct in guessing that, as a large lot on E 42nd St, the land underneath this tower is essentially Zoned for Burj Khalifa height?
Taylor Rule2Time to start converting schools instead www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab219 additional storeys… ouch that’s not the news you want to get after years of project work
msdobalina.bsky.social1I don't know what the hell went wrong there, but it's tragic that it happened on a conversion.
