Security video captures Brooklyn apartment building collapsing in Flatbush

Fox - 5 NY
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Nov 13, 2026
We are getting a look at security video
capturing the moment the apartment building
in Brooklyn collapsed.
That's right, Good Day.
Nikki Houser is live in Flatbush
with a look at that video
and also the latest on this investigation.
Nikki, good morning.
Right, good morning, Dan and Shawnee.
This community wants answers after this collapse
and after losing eight of their own people,
many of them young, the oldest was 31 years old,
the youngest just nine.
18 are still injured this morning as well after this collapse.
I want to show you this. This is
camera ring camera video from next door showing
the moment that this happened. Investigators now
looking closely into the construction site next door
and whether ongoing digging at the time of
the collapse may have played a role.
Here's what we know right now. The developer hoped to build
a nine story building on that site.
A permit application showing plans to dig below 15 feet.
And now the Department of Buildings...
Buildings is rushing to carry out emergency inspections
at 100 other construction sites
after the site next to the collapse was linked
to five different entities connected to those projects.
Everybody wants answers here, including the mayor,
who says the city is committed
to finding out exactly what happened here.
As I said yesterday evening,
a tragedy of this magnitude demands a comprehensive and thorough
investigation that includes both the construction site
and the building which collapsed. That has
already begun with the Department of Buildings
and Law Enforcement leading it. We will find
out what happened and we will share that information with New Yorkers.
Officials say everybody has been accounted for in the search
and rescue efforts have stopped for
now. So what happens next?
Well, investigators are going to look very closely into the cause
of this collapse. In the meantime,
this community is going to grieve again the eight lives that were
lost. Back to you guys. No doubt about it, the community and the city.
All right, Nikki, thank you.
