Mamdani Vowed for Accountability in Catastrophic Building Collapse That Killed 8 - New Report Points the Finger at His Own Admin
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says there will be accountability as the investigation begins into the collapse of a Brooklyn building Wednesday that left eight people dead, including two children.
“If we find anyone that has violated the law, we will hold them fully accountable,” Mamdani said in a video posted to YouTube.
“If there is anyone or any entity operating in this city that bears responsibility for what happened, we will hold them fully accountable,” Mamdani said yet again, according to CityLimits.
He may not have to go far outside of City Hall to find some of those accountable, according to a recent report.
A new report revealed that the city failed to enforce a March stop-work order issued for inadequate safety protection during demolition, and additionally left roughly 90 unresolved violations on the collapsed building unaddressed for decades.
The mayor who has spent the election season sowing seeds of socialism might need to explain why the city has so many vacancies in its Department of Buildings, the body responsible for enforcing those citations, as noted by WNBC-TV.
The department responsible for inspections has a vacancy rate of 9 percent and 168 openings.
It was uncertain how often the excavation site next to the collapse building had been investigated, but New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, a Democrat, said now that two children were killed, the city would “meet this moment.”
New York City leadership gives an update on the building collapses
The presser said very little except when Mayor Mamdani grabbed the microphone to say that the administration of New York City will be seeking to prosecute all those responsible
Make no mistake, building collapse that have not had building codes properly enforced – that blame belongs in Gracie Mansion
— Dangerous Thoughts (@DangerousThinkg) November 13, 2026
It was not as if the excavation site had not been on the city’s radar.
In March, the city issued a stop work order after inspectors said there was too little safety protection as a building was being demolished. Work started up in April despite the order, highlighting a lack of city enforcement.
That work was later allowed to legally continue.
As noted by City Limits, initial plans called for a three-story building to be built, but the developer then decided to build a nine-story building.
Plans for that had not been approved, but it was unclear whether excavation work was being done to support a three-story or nine-story structure.
On Brklyn Building collapse -Mayor Mamdani said Thursday at a press conference on site. ”If there is anyone or any entity operating in this city that bears responsibility for what happened, we will hold them fully accountable.”
How about the person responsible for the DOB???— Brooklyn Mind (@brklynmind) November 12, 2026
A report in the New York Post said, the current theory is that excavation work was the trigger for the building collapse.
The Department of Buildings said it received an anonymous complaint shortly after the collapse that claimed excavation was taking place too close to the building that collapsed.
“The subcontractor may have excavated too much of the area along the neighboring foundation at once,” the complaint said.
Mamdani, asked about a March report that found cracks in the facade of the building that collapsed, said he was “incredibly troubled.”
There is also the building that collapsed, which had 90 unresolved violations that went back to the 1970s as well as more recent ones.
The owner, Olufemi Faladem, owed the city more than $450,000 in unpaid taxes, water bills, and fines, according to the New York Post.
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