Brooklyn building collapse leaves at least 2 dead and 17 injured

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At least two people were killed and 17 others injured on Wednesday when a three-story apartment building collapsed in New York City, tumbling into a large hole created by a construction site next door, officials said.

NEW YORK — At least two people were killed and 17 others injured on Wednesday when a three-story apartment building collapsed in New York City, tumbling into a large hole created by a construction site next door, officials said.

The collapse, which took place just after 4 p.m. near the intersection of Bedford and Flatbush Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, sheared off the wall of an adjacent three-story building and left a staircase, bed and closets exposed to the open air.

The four-unit apartment ​building dating from 1930 collapsed and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was ​underway and the cause was under investigation, said John Esposito, the city's fire ⁠department chief.

Scores of firefighters and police officers wielding pickaxes and power saws clambered over the rubble pile for hours, punching holes through the ruins to pull dust-covered people from beneath piles of twisted wood and brick.

The number of people who were at home when the building collapsed was not immediately known, officials said. They did not ​say how many workers were on the construction site at the time of the collapse.

At least 17 people were hospitalized with injuries, including four in critical condition, officials said during a news conference. New York City Fire Department officials said their search and rescue operations would continue into the night.

“This has been an incredibly challenging and fast-moving situation, with precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. “This type of rescue is exactly what the FDNY trains for.”

The cause of the collapse was under investigation, but New York City’s buildings commissioner, Ahmed Tigani, noted that when the building fell, construction workers were excavating an empty lot next door for a new building.

Much of the rubble from the collapsed building — a mixed-use structure with apartments sitting atop ground-floor commercial space — wound up in a…

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