Brooklyn Building Collapse Tragedy Devastates Immigrant Families

Scritto il 14/11/2026
da Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Ana Ley

Theirs was a story as old as New York. On a street in Brooklyn, immigrants had arrived to work and live, until their lives intersected in tragedy.Brenda Vasquez, 25, lost her husband, Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, 26, when an apartment building collapsed onto a Brooklyn construction site.