A five-story building partially collapsed in Murray Hill in Manhattan on Wednesday.
The incident happened around 12:30 p.m. at 205 East 38th Street, near 3rd Avenue. An FDNY spokesperson said one person sustained non-life threatening injuries, and has been transported to a local hospital.
"I was parked at the light and there was a delivery guy coming through," said witness David Singleton, 44, who was sitting in his car when the collapse happened. "He started running, he looked up, and the bricks started falling. I tried to back up, and the whole side of the building, mostly the top, came down on the cars."
Singleton said he saw the injured man, who was in the smashed black car you can see in the photo up above, looking "bloody and disoriented" before being taken away by ambulance.
The building is believed to have been vacant at the time of the collapse; it was previously used as a parking garage. According to the Department of Buildings, they received a complaint in May that the building was undergoing construction without permits. Inspectors were unable to enter the building in two followup visits in recent weeks.
This incident comes a week after a three-story building housing the Body Elite Gym collapsed in Carroll Gardens.
