From ABC7 New York News today:
The high-rise at East 42nd Street and Second Avenue is a 1970s-era office building being converted into luxury apartments.
From NBC News YouTube:
And in true "Idiocracy" fashion, they're going to "shore up the buckling floors with thick metal poles." And these are going to be "luxury apartments?" What fucking morons are going to want to live in a collapsing building?
Oh, by the way, in other Idiocracy news from New York from a couple days ago, they had a fireworks presentation for the 4th, of course, and some of the fireworks were shot off the Brooklyn Bridge -- which they proceeded to burn!