RDHT
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INCOMING: All-new MG 2!
The MG GO concept car has been unveiled, and it offers us a glimpse at the forthcoming MG 2!
Details are thin on the ground at the moment, but we're loving the hot hatch styling!
The question is, if the final production version looks like this, would you choose it over a Renault 5 or MINI Cooper?
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MG has unveiled the Cyber concept as a showcase of its future design direction – squint, and it almost looks like a Ferrari Purosangue 👀 buff.ly/Y2M7bm2
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Return of the Metro? MG has revealed the British-designed Go concept as a first look at its Renault 5 rival coming next year 🔋 buff.ly/z3slIOX
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SpaceX Launches Record Breaking Falcon 9 with Starlink 10-42 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@911Gene @Gothamist Buildings are not fire resistant. They are designed to hood up a certain amount of minutes/hours.
Fire code is for people to escape, not for a building to remain intact….
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If a top FDNY Chief publicly confirms that damage in a steel-framed high-rise produce only localized failure at most… then how can anyone in the FDNY still accept the official story that fire alone caused three fire-resistive steel high-rises on 9/11 to collapse entirely, evenly, and through themselves?
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@BohuslavskaKate My bet, Trump needs Ukrainian build Patriot rockets because the us fired to many...
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TRUMP: President Zelenskyy and I actually developed good relationship. It's hard to believe, right? From Oval Office to now, we've developed very good relationship.
ZELENSKYY: This is not the end.
TRUMP: This is not the end. This is going to be the beginning.
ZELENSKYY: Yeah.
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@GreenGrassGuru @shortbus_ace @JK28712220 Ow, i'm not saying is willfully. Sometime it is, but most time its just time pressure creating mistakes.
I doubt loads where removed, the building stopped moving so an equilibrium was found in the bearing members (or at least for now). Thats why it was "safe" to inspect.
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@RDHT_91 @shortbus_ace @JK28712220 I hear you. Still don’t believe a contractor would willfully alter spec’d material, this includes new concrete pours and beams. The existing beams failed due to dead loads. The city sent humans in after determining low collapse risk. That tells me the identified loads were remove
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these pictures should freak everyone out. the fact that this was allowed to happen in 2026 is a complete failure to the highest level and hopefully people face consequences
FDNY@FDNY
Just before at 8 a.m. Tuesday, the FDNY received reports of a structural issue at an active construction site on East 42nd Street between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. The call came in for reported issues at a 37-story building at 235 East 42nd Street that is currently being converted from a commercial office building into a residential building. FDNY units, as well as representatives from the Department of Buildings and NYC Emergency Management, responded and found structural issues on the 21st floor. Two structural columns buckled, and there were multiple cracks and sagging floors. "It's a very serious situation because the box beams—the steel beams—have started to bend and deflect from the weight," Chief of Department John Esposito said. "We evacuated the building and started evacuations of surrounding buildings. The building has continued to move since we have been on the scene." The FDNY's drones have provided technical information and visuals for partner agencies as assessments are conducted. All workers were accounted for as of 1 p.m. Tuesday. Approximately 150 FDNY fire and EMS members responded to the scene.
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@GreenGrassGuru @shortbus_ace @JK28712220 Lets just say as an engineer, nothing surprises me anymore. I’ve seen some bonkers shit. To summarize, drill holes first ask question later kinda things.
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@RDHT_91 @shortbus_ace @JK28712220 That is possible but highly unlikely due to SE drawings specifying the beam sizing and locations, and contractor creating submittals for the SE to approve prior to procurement. If the new beams are heavier than designed and approved, then you have criminal level negligence.
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Thanks for the info, anonymous Reddit fella. Boy, it sure would be a shame if something happened to those three plants. 🤔
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@KonojnQqqq @gaughen @414magyarbirds Hope 414 sees this. Maybe this reply helps that a bit, else, could at least try.
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This 37-storey tower in Manhattan has been evacuated after at least two structural columns buckled on its 21st floor.
Formerly the headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the building at 235 East 42nd Street had been undergoing renovation work to convert it from office space to more than 1,600 high-end apartments — including the addition of four new floors and the extension of several other levels.
Fire crews were called to reports of falling masonry at the site on Tuesday morning local time. A 'frozen-zone' was established from 40th to 45th Streets and from First to Third Avenues, which saw the area closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic and buildings evacuated.
New York City Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani reassured New Yorkers on Tuesday night that the building was stable.
The building renovation project, designed by Gensler for Metro Loft and David Werner Real Estate, had been due to complete in 2027. It's understood that the general contractor is 235 GC LLC with GACE as structural engineers.
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@WillChiarucci However, he has to back up with facts. He can’t have the facts on why this failed. As that has not been researched yet/ as he is no structural engineer. He’s just doing a pro Union speech. The whole pro/against tends to happen when something big fails. Stay with facts please.
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Show me where the defamation is. Metro Loft literally put the lives of every worker in jeopardy. Developers often win projects by underbidding and everything this gentleman said is 100 percent factual. The developer has far bigger issues to worry about than criticism from a steamfitter. Metro Loft reputation has already taken a hit and it got a whole lot worse today. But by all means, keep defending it.
nydailynews.com/2026/07/07/nyc…
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@predictanalyst @WillChiarucci Totally agree, if I was the non union steel erector, I’d sue that union and that clown for defamation.
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@ChickenSamosaa @acechhh You have loads, material, calculation factors. Not every section being used fully. Calculation for the full floor to be of a weight it will never be loaded to.
The real safety factor is way way way higher.
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@acechhh i googled around a bit and was surprised that civil engineering accepts safety margins as low as 1.5x
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back when I used to be around this work in my old career, you’d find out things like this due to something that was missed, hidden or a cut corner 50-60 years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the case here. But this rarely happens because of one mistake
Steven Bognar@Bogs4NY
BREAKING: Midtown Manhattan high rise evacuated after construction workers discover buckled columns ... sagging floors and falling bricks. 42nd & 43rd streets near 2nd avenue closed as DOB assesses the danger.
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@TomBeckerle @MrCleanandshiny @TerriGerstein So from the looks you can see the engineering? See the calculation, know all? This is just another union versus non union the US is famous for. Free pr for him.
Yelling way to loud while not actually knowing what went wrong.
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@MrCleanandshiny @TerriGerstein Guy has probably been in a building or two. Just saying.
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Union workers know how to build buildings safely. Full stop.
Oliya Scootercaster 🛴@ScooterCasterNY
NOW: "The North Side of that Building is CRUMBLING" - Construction Worker speaks about the former Pfizer HQ building, which is in danger of COLLAPSE in Manhattan. Licensing @FreedomNTV desk@freedomnews.tv
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@TerriGerstein He sounds pretty knowledgeable. We should probably get rid of all the architects and engineers, and have reps from the steamfitters union build our skyscrapers from scratch.
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@Brandonxgen @NYC_Buildings @FDNY @AhmedTigani54 Not automatically so. (European loads)
If you go from a 5kN/m2 office load to 2,95 kN/m2 person load times that many floors. You suddenly have a big reserve of load for additional floors.
However if just 1 point if not up to expected spec. Shit happens fast.
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@NYC_Buildings @FDNY @AhmedTigani54 For a residential conversion from office space your addition by tons of weight. More furniture, plumbing waters heaters hvac systems more electrical etc seems like a bad deal imo
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Earlier this evening @NYC_Buildings Commissioner @AhmedTigani54 gave a press briefing on the ongoing stabilization efforts at the former Pfizer building in Midtown Manhattan, and related updates on the associated street closures and building evacuations.
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@theOGchiggler @shortbus_ace Ye, so many thing could have gone wrong. But somehow people instantly form opinions.
In my opinion it would have been wise to at least remove the fire protection to inspect the steel. But maybe they already did that. Time will tell.
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@RDHT_91 @shortbus_ace It’s old steel apparently (original columns not the new ones). Maybe the supplier cheaped out 60 years ago and we’re only finding out now (because somebody decided to built an extra building on top of them 😂).
Maybe there was pitting under the paint they couldn’t notice.
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This guy is just saying what happens with every new development in New York City. I live in a newer building and it’s a fucking dump. Everything is made cheaply. If you live a pre war building cherish it.
Will Chiarucci@WillChiarucci
This guy is 100 percent spot on.
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@ejproductions @patkiernan Very hard, if not impossible to know. You’d have to have an as build drawing of the whole building to every detail. With every load exactly where it is now.
Pointless to ever start that calculation.
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@patkiernan How far down the building would the uneven load transfer cause structural instability? I can't imagine the other load bearing components are meant to take on that new downward overload
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I wanted to actually understand where the old Pfizer Building failed. After a couple of hours of matching photos and maps this is my understanding.
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