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...

Attorney Glenn Nick addresses escalating concerns over the structural integrity of aging New York City buildings after a Midtown high-rise experienced buckled columns this week.

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...