The construction site of the affordable building at 321 East 60th Street as seen from the Queensboro Bridge in May 2016. Via Google Mas On a tiny plot of land, right next to the Manhattan-side ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- A manhole fire on Manhattan's East Side by the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge caused dark, billowing smoke and led to precautionary evacuations at seven buildings earlier Friday.

In Brooklyn, the Coignet Building in Gowanus was a showpiece for reinforced concrete, first introduced at the 1867 Exposition Universelle de Paris. Sitting underneath the Queensboro Bridge in Long ...