Frightening video has surfaced of the moment a New York City building collapsed in Brooklyn, killing eight and injuring 18, as neighbors claimed their homes had been shaking for weeks because of nearby construction work.
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Eight people died when a three-story building in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn collapsed around 4pm Wednesday as construction workers were digging at an adjacent lot.
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New footage has emerged of an apartment affected by the collapse, showing Anderson Velez's family, including a 9-year-old boy and a 2-year-old boy, inside as the walls began collapsing.
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They all survived.
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Velez was not at home in the clip, which was shared by CBS News, but his wife and kids were.
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The father said his wife and 9-year-old were in the hospital, while his younger son was not injured.
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A 44-year-old neighbor who has been living in an adjacent building for seven years said his home had been shaking on a daily basis ever since construction began nearby a month ago.
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'Since those people started building next door it's everyday, every minute you hear it and feel it,' the man, who was not named, told the US Sun outside the collapse.
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Anderson Velez said he was not home when the building collapsed but his family, including his 2-year-old and 9-year-old sons, was
Video captured the moment inside an apartment when a three-story building collapsed in Brooklyn around 4pm Wednesday, killing eight and injuring 18
The building on Flatbush Avenue collapsed around 4pm Wednesday as construction workers were digging at an adjacent lot
Dervie Mapp, a 67-year-old retiree who lives along the construction site, said she and others had complained for months about the project.
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She watched the building collapse.
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'People were running up out of the pit, screaming and hollering,' Mapp told the Associated Press.
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'I couldn't believe it.'
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Mapp said she 'froze' as she witnessed 'the whole thing come down.'
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She said her landlord had previously brought engineers into the building, but residents never received an inspection report.
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Sumathy Kumar, the executive director of New York State Tenant Bloc and Housing Justice for All, said the landlord, Olufemi Falade, had a 'track record of tenant neglect,' according to CNN.
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Councilmember Farah Louis, who represents that area, said Falade was a problematic landlord who did not keep his properties to code.
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Eight people died in the building collapse, including two Colombian children who were identified as Nicole Daniela Salvada Rodriguez, 9, and Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10, by the New York City Police Department.
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The Ecuadorian consulate in New York, as well as police, said José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26, and Gabriel Siguencia, 22 had died.
Police also confirmed Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31, Ndiaye Mamadou, 31, Barry Mamadou, 23 and Edgar Sapon, 26, were among the dead.
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A neighbor who has been lived in an adjacent building claimed that his home had been shaking every day since construction began nearby
José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26, an Ecuadorian migrant father with a heavily pregnant wife, was among the victims in the Brooklyn building collapse
On Thursday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he had ordered inspections at about 100 other New York City building sites involving companies related to the construction project
18 people, including 14 civilians and four firefighters, were injured in the building collapse, according to Mamdani
On Thursday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered inspections at approximately 100 other building sites across the city involving companies related to the construction site.
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If there is anyone, or any entity, operating in this city that bears responsibility for what happened, we will hold them fully accountable,' Mamdani said during a press conference on Thursday afternoon.
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Mamdani said 18 other people, 14 civilians and four firefighters, had suffered injuries as a result of the tragedy.
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Most of those people were still being treated in hospitals and in stable condition, though one person was in critical condition.
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The building that collapsed had been erected in the 1930s, and was a mixed-use structure with apartments atop a business on the ground floor, perched on the edge of a lot where another one-story building had been torn down for a construction project.
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The New York City Department of Buildings commissioner, Ahmed Tigani, said Wednesday that construction workers were excavating the empty lot next door when the building collapsed.
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City officials said a stop work order had been issued in March after inspectors concluded the building next door was being demolished without adequate overhead protection such as netting to shield neighboring buildings.
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In April, inspectors found that the demolition work had resumed in violation of the stop work order.
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Work was allowed to continue in May after the problems were corrected, according to the department.
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