Eight people, six adults and two children, lost their lives in the tragedy, authorities confirmed. Among the dead were two construction workers.
An additional 18 people sustained injuries in the collapse.
Mayor Mamdani said six victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while two others died later in hospital.
Four of those injured were firefighters. One patient remains hospitalized in critical condition.
A senior NYPD official identified five of the victims as Nicole Daniela Salvada Rodriguez, 9; Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31; Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10; Barry Mamadou, 23; and Ndiaye Mamadou, 31, according to CBS, the BBC’s US partner. All five were residents of the building that collapsed.
The remaining victims lived elsewhere in the city. Gabriel Siguencia, 22, resided in the Bronx; Edgar Sapon, 26, lived in Hell’s Kitchen; and Jose Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26, lived in the Bushwick neighbourhood of Brooklyn.
Mamdani described those killed as “our friends and our neighbours. Our parents and our children.”
“Young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and beyond,” he added.
Ecuador’s consul general visited the site and confirmed that two of the victims were Ecuadorian nationals, the New York Times reported.
Consul General Gicela Andrade told the newspaper that Cosquillo will be flown back to Ecuador for burial.
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