Horrifying Ring Camera Footage Captures Moment NYC Building Collapses

Two spine-chilling videos captured the terrifying moment a Brooklyn apartment building gave way in a collapse that buried families under a mountain of debris and left eight people dead.

One clip from a home security camera inside the doomed building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue shows a little boy swallowed by rubble as the wall beside him crumbles, and the room suddenly fills with daylight.

The other is Ring camera footage that neighbor James Williams shared with CNN. It shows a stairwell in the apartment building next door when a deafening roar erupts. Chunks of debris rain down at the edge of the frame and a thick cloud of dust billows up. Seconds later, car alarms wail and panicked screams rise from the street below.

A second recording from the same camera shows an FDNY firefighter steering a shaken resident past heaps of rubble toward the stairs.

“You’re going to come with me — nice and easy,” the firefighter says calmly as sirens scream in the background.

Anderson Velez, the dad of the boy seen in the video, had just shown up for a painting gig in the Bronx when his hysterical wife called. She was begging rescuers to dig their two sons out of the wreckage.

Velez told Gothamist the family had moved into the $1,500-a-month apartment only weeks earlier, after leaving a homeless shelter. One of the boys escaped with scrapes to his forehead and legs. The youngest, just 2 years old, was pulled out caked in dirt from head to toe, his ears, nose and mouth packed with grime.

The nearly century-old building came crashing down Wednesday afternoon into the lot next door, where construction crews were digging. City buildings officials had already penalized the developers at that site for cutting corners and ignoring a stop-work order.

The dead include two children, ages 9 and 10, and adults between 22 and 31, according to the NYPD. Eighteen more people were hurt, including four firefighters. Colombia’s consulate in New York said both children and one of the adults were Colombian.

The FDNY wrapped up its rescue mission once the last victim was freed. Investigators turned Thursday to finding out what caused the collapse.

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