The high-rise office building near Grand Central Terminal at risk of collapsing Tuesday is being converted to a residential complex, a notoriously complicated undertaking that some developers have pit...

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 ...

Engineers often refer to the most dangerous possibility as a progressive collapse, a process in which structures near the initial failure become overstressed and also fail, potentially bringing down t...