Late Wednesday night, a five-alarm fire ripped through a repurposed warehouse in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, destroying the studios of many artists and makers. The four-story building, 481 Van Brunt Street, was home to dozens of workshops and galleries, including familiar names in the design industry, like De La Vega Designs , Token, Volk, and Ladies & Gentlemen Studio.

The blaze, which burned into Thursday, took more than 200 firefighters to contain. During the fire, parts of the roof and top floors of the Civil War–era building, which is part of the Beard Street Pier complex owned by the O’Connell Organization, collapsed. Two firefighters sustained injuries, but thus far there are no reported casualties.

The condition of individual studios was still being assessed at press time

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