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Man, I'm feeling left out. Mitch is burning up the phone lines but he hasn't called me yet. Thune, Barasso, Scott Jennings...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/mitch-mcconnell-health-senate-gop.html

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I thought they are just converting the building from office to residential and that they are modifying structure to do the conversion. I missed that they are adding stories to it.

The Fire Department of New York said it received reports of bricks falling at around 8 a.m. from the 37-story tower. Officials found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and that floors were sagging between the 21st and 26th floors.

The office-to-residential conversion has been billed as the largest in the city’s history, according to Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project. The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower while also redesigning an adjoining tower.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/nyc-high-rise-unstable-columns-evacuations.html

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Midtown Manhattan buildings evacuated after beams found buckling at high-rise construction site

At least 9 buildings have been evacuated in Midtown, including a school and a hotel.

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