The operation to stabilize 235 E. 42 St. is expected to last "into the night," officials said.
Many of the residents need to retrieve medicine, passports, birth certificates, and other critical items from the partially collapsed building where they lived.
Firefighters spent hours searching a pile of debris that was 12 feet high in spots, but no victims were found.
The hours-long search through rubble ended after officials found no victims.
A motorcycle was damaged after bricks fell from the 19th floor of a NYCHA building in the Bronx Wednesday.
The four parking garages were found in a proactive sweep of 78 parking structures after the Ann Street parking garage collapse.