Two children among eight killed in New York building collapse

Emergency responders at the scene of a building collapse in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday | BING GUAN / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Nov 13, 2026

NEW YORK – New York authorities said Thursday that eight people, including two children, were killed after a residential building collapsed a day earlier, prompting a frantic overnight search by firefighters to pull people from the rubble.

The three-story property in Brooklyn fell Wednesday afternoon into a neighboring excavation site where construction workers had been preparing foundations for a planned development.

“This has been a devastating morning and evening for our city,” said New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who announced the latest death toll and said over a dozen more were injured.

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