‘Very traumatizing’: Flatbush residents, business owners shook by devastating building collapse

James Williams saw the moment the three-story apartment building at 1321 Flatbush Ave. collapsed late Wednesday afternoon, an experience he said was "very traumatizing." "They kept banging and banging and banging and banging, and it was banging too much and hitting the wrong thing. And when they hit the the foundation of the structure down there, that's when some of the bricks started coming off of that building," Williams, 60, said of construction work taking place at a lot adjacent to the collapsed building, 2625 Bedford Ave, in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood. "After some of the bricks started coming off the building, no more than two minutes later, I watched the whole building collapse," he added. [caption id="attachment_137881268" align="alignnone" width="1200"] James Williams, 60, who says he witnessed the building collapse at 1321 Flatbush Ave. on Wednesday Nov. 11 from the deli across the street. Thursday, Nov.

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