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Brooklyn Building Collapse Kills 8, Including 2 Children
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In Short: Among the dead were two children, ages 9 and 10, and Brenda Vasquez lost her husband, Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, in the collapse.
Building collapse Flatbush, Brooklyn 2026.
WATCH Mayor Mamdani after Brooklyn building collapse kills 8, including 2 children; search continues. KATU News
The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has launched a criminal investigation into the incident, as reported by CBS News.
According to PBS, the collapse occurred as workers were digging at an adjacent construction site, prompting New York officials to order inspections at more than 160 sites associated with six entities linked to the construction and demolition site.
The first 911 call on the collapse came in at 4:01 p.m., according to the FDNY, and the Fire Department concluded its search on Thursday after determining there were no more victims.
The collapse occurred near Flatbush Avenue and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, where emergency crews launched a large-scale technical rescue operation.
The building, located at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, collapsed into an adjacent construction site where workers were on scene, according to fire officials.
The cause of the collapse remains under investigation by the Department of Buildings (DOB) and law enforcement.
The site was being excavated, and the building that fell down filled the construction pit with bricks and wood.
Another building that shared a wall with the collapsed structure remained standing, but its wall was shorn off, exposing the rooms inside, including a bedroom and closets filled with clothing.
The Haitian community in New York, numbering around 163,000 in the metropolitan area, primarily in Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Flatbush and Crown Heights, has been deeply affected by the tragedy.
The collapse has raised serious questions about construction activity, building inspections, and whether New York City officials had opportunities to identify potential dangers before this tragedy occurred.
Some New York officials on Friday called for the hiring of more inspectors by the city’s Department of Buildings.
The victims were identified Thursday following the deadly collapse at a Brooklyn construction site.
What this adds
The collapse killed eight people, including two children, and injured more than a dozen others, according to multiple reports.
The collapse has raised questions about construction activity and building inspections in New York City.
Background
FDNY firefighters were searching for survivors Wednesday following a building collapse in Brooklyn where two people were killed and at least 19 people were injured, including seven children and a pregnant woman who was pulled from the rubble hours after the collapse, according to Nydailynews and Fox News.
What's confirmed
- OAN Staff Lillian Mann Wednesday, November 11, 2026 UPDATE – 2:57 PM: At least one person died after a building in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed, officials said.
- At least two people are dead and over a dozen others injured after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, according to New York City authorities.
- Shortly after the incident, NYC's Department of Buildings said its inspectors "are on scene at a major building collapse near Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn assisting with recovery operations and conducting structural stability inspections of nearby buildings," in a post on X/Twitter.
- Construction site collapse in Brooklyn leaves people trapped NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters frantically dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, trapping people beneath the wreckage.
- First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (Source: Associated Press) One person died, and at least four others were rushed to a hospital in critical condition, according to the New York City Fire Department.
- First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (Source: Associated Press) "As emergency operations continue, please join me in holding our neighbours and the members of this community in our hearts," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement posted on social media.
- New York authorities expanded their investigation into Wednesday’s catastrophic building collapse in Brooklyn to include 160 sites across the city associated with six companies involved in the fatal project, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Friday.
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that six adults, including two construction workers, and two children were "senselessly lost" in the building collapse and 18 others were injured, including four firefighters.
- The cause of the collapse remains under investigation by the DOB and law enforcement, authorities said.
- The building, at the intersection of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood, collapsed Wednesday afternoon into an adjacent excavation site, where workers were on scene, according to fire officials.
- "We do not know how many people are still in the collapse zone, and this will be a prolonged operation," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore told reporters at the scene in Flatbush, Brooklyn late Wednesday.
- The site was being excavated, and the building that fell down filled the construction pit with bricks and wood.
What's still developing
- November 13, 2026 / 8:53 PM EST / CBS News The world crumbled around Anderson Velez's family on Wednesday when the multi-use Brooklyn building where they resided collapsed.
- Brenda Vasquez, 25, lost her husband, Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, 26, when an apartment building collapsed onto a Brooklyn construction site.
- A three-story apartment building collapsed in Brooklyn, causing two fatalities and injuring more than ten individuals.
- An unidentified person was killed when a building in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood suddenly collapsed, the FDNY told Fox News Digital.
- At least one person has died and four others have been taken to hospital in a critical condition after a three-storey building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York, trapping people beneath tonnes of rubble and triggering a major rescue operation.
- At least one person is dead and 12 others injured, six critically, after a mixed-use three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed Wednesday afternoon, a fire department official said.
- “Imagine what that child is experiencing right now,” Louis said.
- A contractor involved in construction at the site of the deadly Brooklyn collapse had been cited by NYC for problems related to demolition at the Bedford Ave. location, including violating a stop-work order aimed at halting problematic work, city records reviewed by the Daily News show.
- A community is in shock, families are grieving, and an entire neighborhood is struggling to comprehend a tragedy that has claimed eight lives, including those of two children, in the heart of Brooklyn’s Caribbean American community.
- Home » U.S. & World » Brooklyn Building Collapse That Killed 8 Is Now Under DA Investigation The Brooklyn building collapse that killed eight people, two of them children, is now under investigation by the district attorney, who is looking at whether a crime caused it.
- Donate today Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations Eight people, including two children, are dead, and 18 others are injured after a three-story apartment building collapsed in Flatbush on Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday.
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