An NYC Skyscraper Buckled, Revealing Risks of Office-to-Housing Conversion Boom
On the morning of July 7, 2026, two steel support columns on the 21st floor of a Midtown Manhattan office tower began to buckle. Several floors sagged. Bricks fell to the sidewalk. The fire department evacuated the building and nine others around it, closed traffic on East 42nd Street, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood in…