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235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by AlM on Tue Jul 7 13:52:34 2026

Consult your favorite news source.

It's a conversion from office to residential. But they were adding 11 floors on top as well - maybe that was a bit too much.

Evidently the buildings main structural pillars are starting to bend.

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jul 7 14:24:17 2026, in response to 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by AlM on Tue Jul 7 13:52:34 2026.

I was about to call it yet another symbol of NY economic decline but Pfizer is still here, in Hudson Yards

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jul 7 14:59:36 2026, in response to 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by AlM on Tue Jul 7 13:52:34 2026.

It'll be ok. They can put the city owned grocery on the first floor.

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Jul 7 17:13:46 2026, in response to 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by AlM on Tue Jul 7 13:52:34 2026.

TEAR IT DOWN

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by bingbong on Tue Jul 7 17:27:36 2026, in response to Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jul 7 14:24:17 2026.

No, it's just architectural decline. As in someone declined to check the structural loading for a rooftop swimming pool on a building never meant to house one.

I hope they stabilize it and then tear it down so something else can take its place….and accommodate the weight of a rooftop pool. I wouldn’t want to go near that building ever again.

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by AlM on Tue Jul 7 17:36:13 2026, in response to Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jul 7 14:24:17 2026.

Unfortunately, it may put a damper on a very healthy trend of renovating older office buildings into luxury residential buildings.

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by rkba on Tue Jul 7 17:58:50 2026, in response to Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by bingbong on Tue Jul 7 17:27:36 2026.

why don't you climb to the top and level it once and for all?

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 7 19:11:30 2026, in response to Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by rkba on Tue Jul 7 17:58:50 2026.

Please sho some respect. Bingy just disproved the law of gravity. Its been proven that the more she weighs, the easier it is to pick her up.

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Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jul 7 20:22:23 2026, in response to Re: 235 E 42nd St at risk of collapse, posted by AlM on Tue Jul 7 17:36:13 2026.

Not necessarily. One exception, anomaly whatever dosen't mean a slowdown of a popular and profitable trend.

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