Problems Found in Building Near WTC
Streets were blocked off around a two-story building near the World Trade Center site after cracks were found in an exterior wall and the windows began bulging outward.
Frank McCarton, deputy commissioner for the city’s Office of Emergency Management, said the building posed an immediate danger and would be razed today.
The building at Greenwich and Rector streets above a subway station that was closed for more than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is four blocks south of the World Trade Center site.
It wasn’t clear what caused the structural problems.
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