Video Captures Family’s Miraculous Escape From NYC Building Collapse
The family’s surveillance video shows the wall giving way as rescue workers pulled the 2-year-old from the debris.
- A three-story apartment building at 1321 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn collapsed on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, killing eight people, including two children, and injuring at least 17 others.
- Construction work at adjacent site 2625 Bedford Ave. preceded the collapse, and the Department of Buildings had previously penalized the development team for ignoring a stop-work order.
- Surveillance video from Anderson Velez's third-floor apartment shows his 2-year-old son swept into the rubble as a wall collapsed, though the child survived after intensive care for skull surgery.
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed the casualties Thursday, writing, "There are no words for a loss of this magnitude," as first responders searched the wreckage.
- Buildings inspectors are conducting safety enforcement sweeps at more than 100 projects linked to five companies involved in the construction, investigating if they ignored similar safety protocols across New York.
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Toddler Plays With Toys as Brooklyn Building Suddenly Collapses in Footage of Disaster That Killed 8
Home camera footage shows a toddler playing moments before a Brooklyn building collapsed. Eight people died and 18 were injured as investigators examine a neighbouring construction site.
A little boy is seen in one of the apartments of the building in Brooklyn running towards his mother the moment they realize that something is happening and seconds later the wall collapses The post Video documentary from the tragic collapse of the apartment building in Brooklyn, with eight dead appeared first on in.gr.
‘Very traumatizing’: Flatbush residents, business owners shook by devastating building collapse
James Williams saw the moment the three-story apartment building at 1321 Flatbush Ave. collapsed late Wednesday afternoon, an experience he said was “very traumatizing.” “They kept banging and banging and banging and banging, and it was banging too much and hitting the wrong thing. And when they hit the the foundation of the structure down there,...
A security camera video recorded the moment that part of a three-storey residential building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday. The accident left eight dead, including two children, and 18 injured. The images show the structure giving in and falling into a dust cloud, while only one stairway and part of the corridor remain standing. Wild hit: Elephant steps twice on a biker during attack in India; man escapes for a short while; video…
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