NEW YORK -- At least one person was killed and more were injured when a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
It happened around 4:15 p.m. at 57 Ann St. in the Financial District.
"What we observed from the drone deployed, we observed that there are a four-story building all the way pancaked, collapsed all the way to the cellar floor," Acting Department of Buildings Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik said.
Officials say several people were taken to local hospitals and one person refused medical attention.
Firefighters did rescue one person from the building.
"There was a worker that was trapped on the upper floors. He was conscious and alert and moving around calling us. He just couldn't get down, and we were able to put firefighters up there in the building and take him out across the roof to another building and bring him down safely," Chief of Fire Operations John Esposito said.
1 dead, several injured in NYC parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan
One person was killed and others injured when a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
It happened shortly after 4 p.m. at Ann Street near Nassau Street in the Financial District.
Video from the scene showed multiple cars stacked on top of one another amid crumbled concrete.
Neighbors describe frightening moments when garage collapsed
Many people in the dense Financial District neighborhood could feel and see when a parking garage collapsed Tuesday afternoon.
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They added, however, it's too early to say whether any of them contributed to the collapse.
Pace University students allowed to return to residence hall
Students were allowed to return to their residence hall on Beekman Street late Tuesday after being evacuated due to a nearby parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan.
The school had evacuated the buildings located at 33 Beekman St. and 161 William St., and classes were canceled.
Mayor Adams: Robotic dog helped search collapsed parking garage
Mayor Eric Adams credited the NYPD's new robot police dogs in helping search the collapsed parking garage.
"I do want to point out that thank God we had the robotic dog that was able to go in the building," Adams said. "This is ideally what we talk about - not sending a human being inside a building that was unstable. We were also able to use the technology of a drone to give a real visualization of what's happening in this building. At this time this building is completely unstable and the chief - we do not want to send in someone until we can make sure the building is shored up. But using the necessary technology we're able to get a clear view of what's happening inside the building, for the most part, and do whatever we can to see if there are any more victims."
"Our command tactical unit, robotics unit, when they go, either the robot dog or the drones, they're able to stream the video directly to our phones, directly to our command center, we're able to share that. The great part of that is we're able to put these, use the technology to get information and reconnaissance without putting our firefighters' lives and our first responders' lives at risk. Great advances in technology, and we've used the dogs before. This is the first time that we've been able to fly inside in a collapse to do this and try to get us some information, again, without risking the lives of our firefighters," Chief of Fire Operations John Esposito said.
Nearby Pace University evacuates 2 buildings, cancels classes following parking garage collapse
Due to Tuesday's parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan, nearby Pace University has evacuated two buildings.
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Road closures due to collapse
Several streets surrounding the parking garage collapse in Manhattan are closed Tuesday evening:
- Ann Street between Gold Street Park Row
- Nassau Street between John Street and Beekman Street
- Dutch Street between John Street and Beekman Street
- Gold Street between John Street and Beekman Street
- William Street between John Street and Beekman Street
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Nearby subway service running at reduced speeds
New York City subway officials tweeted that trains are running at slower speeds on the 2/3/A/C/J/Z lines near the site of the collapse.