Deteriorated City Hall roof could cave

City Hall has fallen into such bad physical shape that the City Council and its staff will be vacating the building in July for up to a year, sources told NBC New York. The building hasn’t been renovated since the late 1950s, with the exception of two of the Mayor’s rooms, which were renovated last year after workers found that the ceilings were so rotted that Bloomberg himself was actually in danger. Now, it’s the Council Chamber’s turn, but the main room is apparently too big to support with scaffolding during the construction and must be closed. Public hearings will be held at either 250 Broadway or 52 Chambers Street in the interim. Renovations are expected to cost $106 million, which includes the cost of bringing the rest of the building up-to-date with city building, electric and fire codes.