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Leonor Yupa dropped to her knees Thursday when a Spanish-language media reporter said her 22-year old son was among eight people whose lives were claimed by the Brooklyn building collapse the day before.
Among those hurt were four firefighters assisting with rescue efforts, which continued Thursday as crews searched for survivors through heaps of debris that included mattresses, a broken sink and a refrigerator with its door missing and food jumbled inside. Vinyl records, shoes and other personal belongings littered the rubble.
Domino, a new independent music venue, will open in the former Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brookyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
At least one person is dead and 12 others injured, six critically, after a mixed-use three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed Wednesday afternoon, a fire department official said.