As questions arise about how work by subcontractors and developers on an adjacent construction site may have led to the deadly building collapse in Flatbush Wednesday, attorneys and workers’ rights advocates say the situation demonstrates the importance of state laws designed to protect construction staff on the job.
At least eight people are dead and 23 injured after a three-story brick apartment building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue suddenly collapsed around 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to city officials. Rescue and recovery efforts ended late Thursday.
Two of those dead and a handful of those injured include construction workers who were working on the construction site at 2625 Bedford Avenue adjacent to the collapsed building. They were excavating the lot to build a foundation for a planned apartment complex of at least three stories. A one-story commercial building on the site was demolished earlier this year…