Part Of 4-Story Apartment Building Collapses In Bed-Stuy: FDNY

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — An apartment building on Bedford Avenue was evacuated Monday morning after part of it collapsed, officials said.

Part of the facade of the four-story building at 1238 Bedford Ave. fell just after 11 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson said. Nobody was injured, officials said.

The collapse turned out to be a decorative masonry window pillar that fell from the fourth floor, according to Department of Building inspectors. The fall created additional cracks on the exterior walls of the building.

The building was evacuated as a precaution.

DOB engineers are still investigating the building and will conduct a structural stability inspection of the building, a spokesperson with the department said.

"Enforcement actions are pending the results of our investigation," the spokesperson said.

The building collapse is at least the third to happen in the borough this summer.

In July, a three-story building that had been seen "dangerously bulging" for months collapsed in Carroll Gardens. Part of a residential building also collapsed in Park Slope a few weeks ago.

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