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'New Nightmare Unlocked': Parking Garage Collapses in NYC Leaving 1 Dead, 5 Injured The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon.

By Emily Rella

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A member of the FDNY walks past a car covered in rubble at the scene of a parking lot collapse in lower Manhattan, New York.

Horror struck in Lower Manhattan in New York City on Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed, leaving five injured and one dead.

The roof of a garage building at 35 Ann Street folded inward as the structure collapsed below it. Several videos and photographs of the scene began circulating on social media on Tuesday afternoon.

All six of the injured were workers of the parking garage and were inside the building at the time of the incident, New York City Fire Department (FDNY) Chief John Esposito said during a press conference.

Four people were sent to the hospital for medical attention. One of the injured workers refused medical treatment at the scene.

Chaos at the scene. Credit: Getty Images.

Pace University, which bordered the garage, was also evacuated.

"We had firefighters inside the building conducting searches," Esposito said. "The building was continuing to collapse. We made the decision to remove all our people from the building. Our robotics unit happened to be nearby; they were on scene very quickly."

Robot dogs used by FDNY recorded video from inside the garage and led the way for drones to zoom in and survey the scene, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said, noting that the building at the time was deemed "completely unstable."

FDNY confirmed the garage floors were essentially large concrete slabs that crushed the cars while collapsing. They noted that this would be a "prolonged operation."

New York Police Commission stated that there was "no reason to believe that this was anything other than a structural collapse" but noted that an investigation would be conducted. There were no active violations with the garage at the time of the collapse.
Emily Rella

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Senior News Writer

Emily Rella is a Senior News Writer at Entrepreneur.com. Previously, she was an editor at Verizon Media. Her coverage spans features, business, lifestyle, tech, entertainment, and lifestyle. She is a 2015 graduate of Boston College and a Ridgefield, CT native. Find her on Twitter at @EmilyKRella.

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