Buckling ex-Pfizer HQ hit with multiple DOB violations last year
The former Pfizer headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, where structural columns buckled on its 21st floor this morning leading to concerns of collapse, generated seven construction safety violations in 2025 with more than $32,000 in penalties. The city’s largest planned office-to-residential conversion, led by David Werner and Nathan Berman’s Metro Loft Management and architect Gensler, had multiple Department of Buildings violations last year preceding today’s evacuation of workers. “As we await the arrival of materials that will stabilize the building, DOB engineers have been investigating with FDNY drones,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference. […]
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