{"id":75843,"date":"2026-07-07T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/manhattan-building-sparks-evacuations-after-two-structural-columns-buckle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:55:07","slug":"manhattan-building-sparks-evacuations-after-two-structural-columns-buckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/manhattan-building-sparks-evacuations-after-two-structural-columns-buckle\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan building sparks evacuations after two structural columns buckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials also find multiple cracks and sagging floors in building that is being converted into apartments<\/p>\n<p>A high-rise building in Manhattan was deemed unstable on Tuesday after authorities determined that support columns buckled, spurring evacuation of nearby buildings, according to officials and reports.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they also found \u201cstructural issues\u201d on the 21st floor of the former Pfizer pharmaceutical building, which is being converted into residential apartments. \u201cTwo structural columns buckled, and there were multiple cracks and sagging floors,\u201d the fire department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2074543873049629024\">said<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/07\/manhattan-building-columns-buckle-evacuations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials also find multiple cracks and sagging floors in building that is being converted into apartments A high-rise building in Manhattan was deemed unstable on Tuesday after authorities determined that support columns buckled, spurring evacuation of nearby buildings, according to officials and reports. Officials said they also found \u201cstructural issues\u201d on the 21st floor of &#8230; <a title=\"Manhattan building sparks evacuations after two structural columns buckle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/manhattan-building-sparks-evacuations-after-two-structural-columns-buckle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Manhattan building sparks evacuations after two structural columns buckle\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}