Developer Avoided Stricter Oversight Before Fatal Building Collapse

Scritto il 14/11/2026
da Stefanos Chen, Mihir Zaveri, Amy Julia Harris, Bianca Pallaro, Dionne Searcey and William K. Rashbaum

By winning approval for a three-story building, then seeking to add more stories, the Brooklyn developer was not subject to the more rigorous oversight required for larger projects.A site on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn was under construction when a neighboring building collapsed.