Jason Polanco left behind nearly all of his belongings when he and his colleagues, who were just starting their work day, were told to evacuate their Midtown Manhattan office building Tuesday. They expected it to be brief.
Instead, they spent the next hours trying to get back inside to retrieve their laptops, paperwork and other essentials after the structural columns of a nearby high-rise building buckled.
Confused and frustrated, evacuated workers fled their office buildings and hotel guests hauled suitcases out of the danger zone as questions mounted over the building city officials said was “unstable”
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