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A person was killed when a parking garage partially collapsed in New York City.
The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, said five people were injured.
The three-story building fell at around 4pm local time (6am EDT) a few blocks from City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge.
A parking garage has partially collapsed in New York City. (Julie Jacobson via AP) The partially collapsed parking garage in Lower Manhattan seen from above. (Charlie Franklin via AP)
It is less than 1 km from the New York Stock Exchange.
Bystander video shows cars hanging precariously from the building’s twisted rooftop.
“It felt like an earthquake,” said Liam Gita, a student at nearby Pace University.
He said he heard “a big noise and a big sound, and then we were all evacuated.”
Other Pace students described hearing screams and seeing cars fall into the building when it collapsed.
New York City Police and Fire Department cordoned off an area in New York’s financial district near the site of a partially collapsed parking garage. (Ted Chaffery via Associated Press)
The fire department said there have been reports of people trapped and that searches are underway to make sure everyone is held accountable.
At one point, the department said, firefighters were withdrawn due to concerns about the stability of the building.
The sinkhole opened after a 120-year-old sewer pipe collapsed
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