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Last updated: Thursday, November 12, 2026 6:30PM GMT
FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) — Eight people are dead and 18 others are hurt, two critically, after part of a three-story building collapsed into a construction site at the corner of Flatbush and Bedford avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn, just after 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to the FDNY.
Six bodies were recovered from the rubble, and two people died at the hospital. Four of the victims found Thursday are believed to be construction workers and two of them are young children.
The building at 1321 Flatbush Ave., which had a store at street level and apartments upstairs, fell into an open excavation at 2625 Bedford Ave.
The Department of Buildings says the developer had an active permit for excavation and foundation work and has issued a full stop-work order while investigators determine the cause.
Officials say others may still be missing.
Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing updates.
1 hour and 22 minutes ago
Victims were from multiple countries
Among those who killed and injured were people from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Trinidad, Mamdani said. Two of the dead were construction workers, he said.
He described how construction workers who survived joined firefighters in digging out survivors, thanking “those who ran towards danger when this building collapsed, and in the hours afterwards.”
Mamdani ordered safety inspections at about 100 building sites related to the companies involved in the construction project where the collapse occurred.
1 hour and 23 minutes ago
Witnesses describe the immediate aftermath and destruction
James Williams, who works at a deli across the street, said he heard loud banging at the site all day Wednesday and looked outside to see bricks falling from one of the buildings. “Two minutes later, the building collapsed,” he said.
As the building crumbled and exposed the neighboring building, Williams spotted a woman on a staircase. “There wasn’t anything I could do,” he said, his voice cracking.
Customers and stylists at a nearby hair salon jumped up and ran onto the sidewalk as the building fell.
“We heard the boom and we all rushed outside and saw smoke and dust everywhere,” said hairstylist Brigitte Anama.
She saw emergency workers pulling people from the rubble, including what appeared to be a child. “People were saying, ‘Pray for the baby, pray for the baby,'” Anama said. Authorities said late Wednesday that at least seven children were among the injured or dead.
“There are no words for a loss of this magnitude,” Mamdani posted on X. “My heart is with the families and loved ones of those we have lost, those who are injured and everyone grieving today.”
This was the second high-profile structural problem with a building in New York in the past five months. In July, several buildings in Manhattan were evacuated after support columns buckled inside a skyscraper that was formerly the headquarters of Pfizer.
1 hour and 58 minutes ago
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani gives update on deadly collapse
Mayor Mamdani announces that eight people, including two children and six adults, died in the devastating collapse in Flatbush.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that eight people were killed in a building collapse in Brooklyn.
2 hours and 23 minutes ago
NYC establishes emergency relief fund for victims
New Yorkers can help support families and neighbors affected by the building collapse in Flatbush, Brooklyn through the mayor’s fund.
To make a donation, visit https://nyc.gov/site/fund/index.page and select “Emergency Relief Fund” from the dropdown menu.
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