{"id":236329,"date":"2026-05-19T03:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236329\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:28:38","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-demolition-nears-completion-after-williamsburg-fire-future-of-site-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236329\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Demolition Nears Completion After Williamsburg Fire Future Of Site Uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Crews are working to pick up the pieces in Williamsburg after a fire left a dozen families without a home earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The site of the three-story building on Grand Street now looks like an abandoned lot. Officials quickly determined the building, which also had a deli on the ground floor, was a collapse zone. Demolition efforts began the next day.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors said they&#8217;re just thankful that everybody made it out safely.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I know that they&#8217;ll rebuild something else, but it&#8217;s just tragic. It&#8217;s hard enough already for people,&#8221; said one man who works nearby.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A spokesperson for the Department of Buildings told News 12 the demolition is almost complete and that repairs are being made to an independent bearing wall. Once that&#8217;s done, the property owner will determine future plans for the site.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are working to pick up the pieces in Williamsburg after a fire left a dozen families without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-236329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236329","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=236329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}