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Massive ‘frozen zone’ around buckling Midtown NYC building leaves hundreds out on street — with no idea when they can return
Midtown residents, workers and tourists ran for their lives from homes and offices near a buckling building Tuesday — and now have no idea when they can return to the evacuated “frozen zone’’ around the site.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani tells Maine’s Graham Platner to drop out of Senate race after rape claim
Mamdani said Tuesday that Graham Platner should drop his bid for a Maine US Senate seat after a bombshell rape accusation against the scandal-scarred candidate.
Crucial beams inside buckling NYC building ‘bending like cigarettes’: worker
Crucial support beams in Tuesday’s buckling Midtown skyscraper were “bending like cigarettes” — sending some floors collapsing under the punishing pressure, according to a construction worker.
Exclusive | NYC Midtown building evacuated over collapse fears is riddled with prior ‘safety’ issues: records
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.
Midtown NYC building ‘shifting’ and in danger of ‘localized collapse’: officials
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.
Midtown building evacuated after support beams buckle, floors cave
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.
The terrifying way Legionnaires’ disease is spreading on NYC’s Upper East Side
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.
Gun-toting teen involved in NYPD cop shooting identified and charged
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.
Staggering 900 NYC public schools failing students amid grade inflation, lax accountability
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.
Exclusive | Boy, 6, whose dad was fatally shot before he was born, takes bullet to chest during Coney Island mass shooting
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.