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East 42nd Street Conversion Crisis | New York City News
A major structural collapse at Manhattan’s East 42nd Street office-to-housing conversion has triggered a citywide safety sweep, uncovering critical violations at 19 linked construction sites and halting work across most. Though no public danger was found, the incident casts doubt on the safety of similar projects—over 40 in development, targeting 14,000 new homes—to tackle the housing crisis. The exact cause remains under investigation, but inspectors confirmed widespread code-breaking and unsafe conditions, prompting urgent scrutiny of developers, contractors, and the entire conversion…
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