Brooklyn Apartment Building Collapses, Killing 8: What To Know

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Firefighters respond to the scene of a fatal building collapse in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Nov. 11, 2026. Firefighters respond to the…

At least eight people, including two children, died after an apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed on Wednesday.

The building, located at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, collapsed “into an adjacent construction site,” the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said in a statement on social media. Eighteen people were wounded in the incident, including one person who is in critical condition, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference on Thursday.

The cause of the building collapse is under investigation, city officials have said.

FDNY said that crews responded to the site of the incident around 4 p.m. on Wednesday and began a search-and-rescue operation. More than 250 first responders were at the site of the collapse.

City officials reported Wednesday evening that two people had died. That number rose to eight by Thursday morning as rescue operations continued.

Mamdani said at the Thursday press conference that six of the eight people who died in the building collapse were adults and two were children. Six of the deceased died at the scene and two at nearby hospitals. Two of the people who died were construction workers at the adjacent site, located at 2625 Bedford Avenue, Mamdani said.

The mayor said that at least 18 other people were injured—four of them firefighters, and the other 14 civilians. Mamdani said that “the vast majority” of the people who are being treated in hospitals for their injuries are in stable condition, while one individual is in critical condition.

Mamdani said on Thursday that the tragedy has been “devastating” for the city.

“I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost,” the mayor said. “These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad, and beyond.

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