New York Post · Brooklyn, NY
Party Pirates to the rescue. A rowdy group of jet skiers went from sometimes-villains because of their antics to heroes Wednesday when they rescued a teenager who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge. The NYC Pirates plucked the 19-year-old in the critical seconds after he smashed into the East River and handed him off to police — who were able to bring the boy to the hospital in time to save his life. The nail-biting video of the rescue caught the moment the Pirates carefully braved the choppy waters to deliver the injured teen to the rescue boat. One skier even tossed his riding buddy into the sea to make the hand-off smoother. “It was like, ‘holy shit, did that just happen?’ It was pretty crazy,” James Reichelt, the president of NYC Pirates, told The Post. Reichelt, who goes by “Whiteboy,” said he and his friends were simply in the right place at the right time.
The Haitian Times · Brooklyn, NY
Overview: New York City is adding 10,000 free 2-K seats for 2-year-olds beginning in fall 2027, expanding access to neighborhoods including Flatbush and East Flatbush in Brooklyn. The expansion will reach every school district in the Bronx and all of Staten Island, along with additional districts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul say the program will help families manage child care costs. The expanded program is expected to offer more than 12,000 seats across 22 of the city’s 32 geographic school districts. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels announced an expansion of the city’s free child care program for 2-year-olds, known as 2-K, bringing the program to every school district in the Bronx and all of Staten Island. Announced Oct. 19, the expansion will add 10,000 seats across all five boroughs and extend 2-K to 17 additional school districts.
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.
DW.com · Brooklyn, NY
The death toll from a three-story building collapse in New York City's Brooklyn has risen to eight, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday. In a post on X, New York's mayor added that at least 17 have been injured, including three firefighters, as a result of the building collapsing into an adjoining construction site on Wednesday afternoon. "Rescue workers have spent the night searching the site of yesterday's building collapse, working under extremely dangerous conditions to find and save anyone who may still be trapped," Mamdani said, adding that rescue work was ongoing. What do we know about the New York building collapse? The collapse happened at about 4 p.m. local time (2100 GMT) in the Flatbush neighborhood. Fire Department Chief John Esposito said the four-unit apartment building, dating from 1930, fell into a pit where excavation work was underway. The cause is under investigation.
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.
