The evacuation of a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan and the surrounding area was ordered on Tuesday after the building showed signs of potential collapse that may have been caused by overload,

Video from inside a New York City high-rise under renovation showed multiple buckling beams. The former Pfizer building is being renovated from an office into residential apartments.

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A large FDNY response is underway in Midtown after two columns buckled at a building under construction Tuesday morning. FDNY said the call came in at 7:57 a.m. for reports of bricks falling from the building at 235 East 42nd Street.

Midtown Manhattan's former Pfizer building was left at risk of collapse on Tuesday after its columns began buckling during a conversion project, forcing the evacuation of a nearby school with about 400 children and several surrounding buildings,

Steel support columns in the Midtown building, which is being converted from offices into apartments, may have been overloaded, experts say

Buckling columns on a Midtown tower forced evacuations and street closures as city crews investigated the structural failure.