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At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a three-story building in Flatbush collapsed, officials said.
Nov. 12, 2026Updated 2:38 p.m. ET
A three-story apartment building collapsed and largely fell into an adjacent construction site in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 18 others, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
Emergency workers were still sifting through the rubble on Thursday morning as they searched for the remaining victims. Officials said they did not immediately know how many people had been in the building, at 1321 Flatbush Avenue.
Mr. Mamdani said that the Department of Buildings and law enforcement officials would investigate the cause of the collapse.
“There are no words for a loss of this magnitude,” Mr. Mamdani said on social media on Thursday morning. “My heart is with the families and loved ones of those we have lost, those who are injured and everyone grieving today.”
The collapse occurred while an excavation was taking place at the adjacent construction site on Bedford Avenue, where the city had approved plans for a three-story building.
A diagram of the collapsed
Collapsed building
1321 Flatbush Ave.
Four residential
units on two
floors
FLATBUSH AVE.
BEDFORD AVE.
Collapsed building
1321 Flatbush Ave.
Four residential
units on two
floors
FLATBUSH AVE.
BEDFORD AVE.
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