© Andrew Renneisen/The New York Times A section of the wall under the Brooklyn Bridge on Prospect and Washington Streets has been removed for safety, according to the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
The collapse, at Prospect Street and Washington Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, brought nearly a dozen fire trucks and paramedics to the bridge just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday, a Fire Department spokeswoman said. She said five adults and three children were treated for minor injuries at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan.
A spokeswoman for the city's Office of Emergency Management, Nancy Greco-Silvestri, said investigators had determined on Wednesday that there were no structural issues at the bridge. The streets in the area, which were clogged Wednesday night with emergency vehicles, have reopened, and a temporary walkway has been built for pedestrians, she said.
The remaining section of the facade wall has been removed for safety, she said.
A photograph posted on Twitter by the Fire Department on Wednesday night showed large gray chunks of stone tumbled over the ground in the underpass and the exposed concrete wall behind the facade.
A Department of Transportation spokeswoman said in a statement that the department "is conducting a full inspection of all the facade and we will continue to thoroughly inspect our entire bridge inventory."
The department last inspected all its bridges in 2012 and is in the midst of another citywide inspection.
© NYC Fire Department Part of the stone facade of a bridge underpass crumbled during a thunderstorm on Wednesday evening.
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