Time Magazine · Brooklyn, NY
Narrated by TIME AI. Eight people, two of whom were children, died after an apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed on Wednesday. The building, located at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, collapsed “into an adjacent construction site,” the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said in a statement on social media. Eighteen people were wounded in the incident, including one person who is in critical condition, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference on Thursday. Here’s what we know about the situation. What happened? The cause of the building collapse is under investigation, city officials have said. FDNY said that crews responded to the site of the incident around 4 p.m. on Wednesday and began a search-and-rescue operation. More than 250 first responders were at the site of the collapse. City officials reported Wednesday evening that two people had died.
PBS · Brooklyn, NY
NEW YORK (AP) — One man's pregnant wife was pulled alive from the rubble, while two of his roommates perished. A woman living next door woke from a nap to bright daylight flooding her bedroom because her apartment wall was suddenly gone. Watch the news conference in the video player above. Survivors of the Brooklyn apartment building collapse that killed eight people wept as they recounted their terror and grief during a news conference Friday. WATCH: New York building collapse kills 8, including 2 children New York officials, from building inspectors to prosecutors, say they're investigating what caused the three-story building to come crashing down as workers were digging at an adjacent construction site. Those who lost family, neighbors and their homes demanded answers.
NBC New York · Brooklyn, NY
The excavation site in Brooklyn that was the scene to the tragic deadly collapse of the adjacent building was owned by an LLC seeking to build a 56,000 square-foot mixed-use building, including a grocery store on the ground floor and eight more stories of residential apartments, city records show. The building that collapsed was a three-story building with a business on the ground floor and multiple apartments inside. It was located next to an excavation site where a one-story building had previously stood before being fully demolished in 2025. According to city records, excavation at this site began in September. That work includes blasting rock. Watch NBC 4 free wherever you are It is unclear what exactly caused the building to collapse, whether it was an issue with that building itself or whether work at the excavation site led to the tragedy unfolding.
Dancing Astronaut · Local
Pacha is one of the most recognizable names in clubbing, and this summer New York finally got its own taste of it when Pacha New York opened its open-air venue. Now the brand is heading indoors for the winter. Brooklyn Pacha officially opens on the weekend of November 6 and 7, giving the city a Pacha it can dance in no matter the season, and the two opening nights are stacked from top to bottom. The new club lives inside the former Great Hall, a room plenty of New Yorkers already have memories of. Pacha has given it a full makeover, bringing in a new sound and lighting setup while holding on to the gritty, warehouse feel that Brooklyn’s underground scene has always been known for. The goal with the space is to shrink the gap between the booth and the crowd, putting the focus squarely on the music and the people dancing to it. Friday, November 6 gets the party started with three artists who each come at dance music from a different angle.
Spectrum News NY1 · New York, NY
New York City’s free 2-K program will expand to all five boroughs next fall, including every school district in the Bronx and on Staten Island, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday. The expansion will give more than 12,000 children access to 2-K, up from the 2,000 who got seats during this year’s initial rollout, Mamdani said at a news conference. Twenty-two of the city’s 32 school districts will be part of the program once the rollout happens, he noted. “This truly historic announcement will save parents more than $25,000 per child per year, while transforming the lives of children by giving them the strong foundation they need to succeed,” he said. “Next year, when placements are announced, families in the Bronx, on Staten Island, across our city will feel an enormous weight lifted off their shoulders,” he added.
CBS News · Brooklyn, NY
Six nonverbal autistic students were missing for hours before arriving at a Brooklyn school more than four hours late after a substitute bus driver got lost, according to a city investigation. The incident was reported on Dec. 16 of last year involving students enrolled at P.S. 289 in Crown Heights. Students who ride the bus are normally expected to arrive between 8:20 a.m. and 9 a.m., but the six students did not reach the school until 1:25 p.m. School officials had no way of knowing where the bus was for much of the morning, according to a report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District, The investigation found that the bus company, Consolidated Transit, was unresponsive as school officials sought information about the missing students. The Department of Education and NYPD were contacted. At 11:45 a.m., a dispatcher told the school the driver was lost and would arrive within about 15 minutes. The bus did not arrive until 1:25 p.m.
