#buildings (structures)

Unraveling a High-Rise Horror Story

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last month, when Karen Zraick, a Times reporter on the Metro desk, got a tip from a tenant of a Lower Manhattan residential building, she wasn’t sure it would result in an article. The tipster wrote that elevator service in the building had been spotty, at best, since…

Tornadoes Tear Through South and Midwest, With at Least 70 Dead in Kentucky

While the destruction was spread throughout western Kentucky, much of the estimated death toll came from a single building, the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory, just southwest of the small city of Mayfield. Officials described an almost unfathomable level of destruction there, a knot of concrete and metal strewn with cars and 55-gallon drums leaking corrosive fluids into the…

Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: October 22, 2021 at 12:40AM

Author: BY KATIE VAN SYCKLE - Publish Date: September 4, 2021 at 11:50PM

Author: BY MELINA DELKIC - Publish Date: June 28, 2021 at 02:31AM

Author: BY KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA, PATRICIA MAZZEI AND JOSEPH B. TREASTER - Publish Date: June 27, 2021 at 02:55AM