# Brooklyn Building Collapse Leaves 8 Dead in Flatbush

- Link: https://the-timenews.com/brooklyn-building-collapse-flatbush-investigation/
- Published: 2026-11-13T19:00:50+00:00
- Author: The Time News

A wall sheared off without warning on Wednesday afternoon, exposing bedrooms and
kitchens before a 1930s residential building plunged straight into an adjacent construction
pit in Flatbush. At least eight people died, including two young children, leaving
a close-knit immigrant enclave in grief and disbelief over the fatal **Brooklyn 
building collapse**.

The disaster happened around 4:00 p.m., bringing down floors and trapping residents
and workers under tons of broken brick and mortar. Eighteen people were injured,
among them four firefighters, with one person remaining in critical condition. Emergency
crews worked through rain and shifting debris for roughly 24 hours, deploying drones,
search dogs, and heavy cranes before concluding that no one else was buried alive.

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For the residents who call this stretch of central Brooklyn home, the disaster shatters
an everyday assumption about city life. People expect floors to hold and buildings
to stand firm, but now city safety inspectors are racing across New York to determine
how a neighboring pit swallowed an entire inhabited block.

## Who died in the Brooklyn building collapse

Five of the victims lived inside the apartments, while three others were nearby 
or working when the structure collapsed into the excavation site next door. Two 
construction workers were among the dead.

Police officials identified the five Flatbush residents as Nicole Daniela Salvada
Rodriguez, 9; Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31; Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10;
Barry Mamadou, 23; and Ndiaye Mamadou, 31. The other three victims were Gabriel 
Siguencia, 22, from the Bronx; Edgar Sapon, 26, from Hell’s Kitchen; and Jose Luis
Caguana Cosquillo, 26, of Bushwick.

> “These were our friends and our neighbours, parents and children, young families
> building their lives in our city, immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Trinidad and
> beyond.”

## How neighbours endured a 24-hour vigil

Ann Marie lived right behind the structure and realized something was wrong when
emergency sirens filled the block and red lights bounced off her windows. She walked
out to see the exposed interior of her neighbours’ homes hanging over a cavern of
rubble.

Across the street, community members gathered at a local church and a nearby YMCA
to comfort relatives waiting for updates. Joyette Kerr, who has lived in the area
since she was a teenager, stayed at the site from midnight through the next day.
She held hands with families and consoled the distraught wife of a young construction
worker who was crushed when the building fell.

Rescuers managed to pull several survivors from the debris, including a woman who
was six months pregnant. Her husband watched in relief as emergency workers brought
her out alive. But for many others pacing the sidewalks or searching local hospitals,
the hours brought only devastation.

## The questions facing city inspectors

Longtime resident Patricia Starek, who has lived in the Flatbush neighborhood for
26 years, watched emergency helicopters swarm the sky and wondered aloud how a populated
building could simply give way. How does an occupied structure just fall into a 
pit?

City officials have identified the firms responsible for the construction work happening
immediately next door. Investigators are focusing on whether the digging destabilized
the foundations of the 1930s apartment block.

Inspectors have now begun auditing 100 other active job sites managed by the same
contractors across the five boroughs to evaluate their structural safety.

Investigators will continue surveying the lot and reviewing construction records
over the coming days as the city decides whether to halt operations across all affiliated
sites.

_Source: [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm4gn5qddqqxo)_

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