Two columns buckled and floors sagged in the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown during an apartment conversion.

Crews are making progress in their effort to stabilize an under-construction Midtown Manhattan building that was evacuated Tuesday after structural columns buckled. Follow for live updates.

Two structural support beams on an under-construction building in Manhattan started buckling Tuesday morning, triggering a large emergency response, officials say.

A major Midtown Manhattan thoroughfare remains gridlocked and seven surrounding buildings have been evacuated after two columns buckled inside a high-rise construction site, rendering the building highly unstable.

Mapped: New York City’s compromised high-rise leads to closures around major Manhattan landmarks - The 37-story office building had been undergoing extensive renovations to convert it into over 1,600

As of Wednesday morning, the only streets closed off around 235 E. 42nd St. is E. 42nd St and E. 43rd St. between Second and Third Avenues, city Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani said at a presser outside the building

An under-construction Manhattan high-rise at risk of collapse was stabilized late Tuesday and some evacuations of nearby buildings were lifted. “We’ve been monitoring the buil