A three-story Brooklyn building collapsed Wednesday afternoon, leaving a massive pile of rubble and a street strewn with debris, the NY Post reported.
The building at the corner of Court and Union streets in Carroll Gardens, which housed a gym, came crashing down at around 4:30 p.m. in the tony neighborhood.
Police said that the building – home to Body Elite Gym for the past 36 years – was unoccupied at the time of the collapse.
There were no immediate injuries reported. The owner of the gym told police that all workers have been accounted for, cop sources said.
Carroll Gardens resident Vincenza Rizzuto, 35, who was nearby at a traffic light on Carroll and Court streets, said she heard the collapse, the NY Post reported.
“It was a huge boom and then people screamed and smoke was all over,” Rizzuto said, adding, “It felt like the ground shook.”
The building had been under construction and scaffolding had been up on the Union Street side.
