{"id":146306,"date":"2026-02-26T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146306\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:23:06","slug":"1-man-dead-another-critically-injured-in-bushwick-wall-collapse-nyc-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146306\/","title":{"rendered":"1 man dead, another critically injured in Bushwick wall collapse, NYC officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"yb7e5\">One man is dead and another man is critically injured after a wall collapsed at a construction site in Bushwick on Thursday morning, NYPD officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"enrdb\">Police received a call at approximately 8:30 a.m. reporting that a wall had given way on Jefferson Street near Central Avenue, hitting two men, ages 47 and 40.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"15sqm\">Both men were taken to area hospitals, where the 47-year-old was pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9ijiu\">By noon Thursday, an investigation was still underway at the site, a massive construction trench in the ground between two buildings. The street was closed off to traffic as officials investigated.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"60pbk\">Representatives from the Department of Buildings were present, including Commissioner Ahmed Tigani.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"esglu\">This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man is dead and another man is critically injured after a wall collapsed at a construction site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-146306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}