Overview
- Police received a call around 8:30 a.m. reporting a wall giving way on Jefferson Street near Central Avenue in Bushwick.
- Two men, ages 47 and 40, were struck and taken to hospitals, and the 47-year-old was later pronounced dead.
- NYPD and Department of Buildings personnel opened an on-site investigation and closed the street to traffic.
- Department of Buildings representatives, including Commissioner Ahmed Tigani, responded at the scene.
- One neighbor said the former two-story structure was sold last year and recently demolished, and officials have not yet released findings.