Metro

The buckling Midtown hi-rise dramatically evacuated over collapse fears Tuesday was cited multiple times last year for dangerous construction safety violations, The Post has learned.

A Midtown high-rise whose support beams were discovered buckling Tuesday is “shifting’’ and in danger of partially collapsing — a situation so precarious that crews can’t even go in to stabilize it, authorities said.

A Midtown NYC high-rise was evacuated Tuesday morning after massive beams inside the under-construction building started buckling — sending some floors caving in and bricks raining down under the crushing strain.

Officials have made the shocking revelation that the ongoing outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease on the Upper East Side wasn’t caused by a building’s decrepit drinking water system, but by water mist from a cooling tower erected to help New Yorkers beat the heat.

The gun-toting teen who rushed an unmarked NYPD car, leaving a veteran detective just days from retirement shot by friendly fire, has been identified and hit with attempted murder and a string of other charges.

The Big Apple school system is infested with grade inflation and even grade fixing — yet more than more than 900 or nearly half of all schools have fewer than half their students passing math, reading, or both on state exams last year according to a report.

A 6-year-old boy whose dad was fatally shot before he was born took a bullet to the chest during a July 4 mass shooting on Coney Island — and can’t understand why someone would hurt him, his mom said Monday.

A high-profile lawyer who became one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for Jewish college students after Oct. 7 netted a whopping $6.4 million payday from a settlement with Columbia University — by preying on his own clients, a shocking new lawsuit claims.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani embarrassingly botched the spelling of the veteran NYPD officer who was shot in the back this weekend — despite announcing he had just visited the father-of-three in the hospital.

Treacherous downpours and severe flash flooding is expected to snarl morning and evening commutes across New York City on Monday — after a weekend of scorching temperatures and severe thunderstorms.