A high-rise building in Midtown Manhattan is at risk of collapse, with buckling support columns prompting the evacuation of several surrounding buildings.

Reports of falling bricks and buckling columns have prompted evacuations in the area around a Midtown Manhattan high-rise office building that was being converted to luxury apartments, fire officials ...

Fire officials determined that two columns had buckled on the building’s 21st and 22nd floors and that several floors near the columns were sagging.