Emergency crews clear 38-story tower under conversion near Grand Central after support columns buckle and floors sag; nearby buildings, including the Israeli Consulate and Israel’s UN mission offices, evacuated as precaution

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…

Reports of falling bricks and buckling columns at a Midtown Manhattan high-rise have prompted evacuations in the surrounding area.

A high-rise under construction in Manhattan was evacuated on Tuesday after structural columns buckled and bricks fell onto the street, prompting officials to warn that the…