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New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by naptu2(op): 3:51pm On Oct 02, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0s7yy5Brc?si=mL9Kqd9OUNuGTypR

Chunk of NYC building collapses in possible explosion


Grace Eliza Goodwin and
Sakshi Venkatramanin New York


A section of a 20-storey residential building partially collapsed in New York City on Wednesday morning, and authorities say there are no injuries.

Firefighters and emergency responders searched into the afternoon for anyone who may have been trapped under the mounds of rubble outside the building, which is part of a public housing development in the Bronx.

"The whole building just - you heard a loud boom, and the thing just exploded, and it fell down just like that," said one witness who spoke with CBS News, BBC's US partner.

"Somebody in the building next to me, they said that their window even fell, and it's on the 16th floor," another witness told CBS.

The collapse seems to have originated from an explosion in the ventilation shaft of a boiler room, the city's fire commissioner Robert Tucker said in a news conference.

No apartments were damaged, but as a precautionary measure, some residents have been evacuated. Others were allowed to return, but the gas to the building has been shut off as authorities investigate.

That investigation will determine whether a gas leak caused the explosion, Mayor Eric Adams said. Utility provider ConEd has not returned a request for comment from BBC.

The New York City Housing Authority, which manages the complex, said in a statement that it is investigating the incident and still determining the extent of the damage. The building has a few open violations against it.

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NYC Department of Buildings issued a partial stop work order, which is still active, on the building in June, according to public records. The order was related to a violation on plumbing that may have been defective, not working, or poorly maintained.

Two other violations on the property are still active, public records show. One from February 2024 concerns the building's failure to file a report on facade safety and inspection.

The other active violation deals with a NYCHA inspection report that found the building's facade to be unsafe.

The DOB's commissioner, James Oddo, said there are three open violations against the property that deal with non-safety issues on boilers. It's not clear how the violations he's referencing are related, if at all, to the active violations described in public records.

The partial collapse comes just a week after a fire in the same building left a teenage girl comatose and in critical condition, though her father told local outlet News 12 Long Island that she is now recovering.

"We were lucky that this emergency didn't result in a loss of life, that it didn't turn into a tragedy," Amanda Septimo, an assembly member who represents the building's district, said at the news conference.

"But we can't be relying on luck to keep our community safe."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8jp4y0jdmo

Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by naptu2(op): 3:52pm On Oct 02, 2025
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Codepain: 3:56pm On Oct 02, 2025
I HOPE IT ISNT A FALSE FLAG AGAIN TO BLAME THE MUSLIMS
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by allen113: 3:58pm On Oct 02, 2025
9/11 comes to mind.


Seuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Gotocourt: 3:59pm On Oct 02, 2025
Hope no b Dem, fear who no fear Dem wey dey put head for ground undecided
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by free2ryhme: 4:00pm On Oct 02, 2025
Another 9 1in the making

i dont need twenty six more characters
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by tammie24: 4:01pm On Oct 02, 2025
Of course you know whose responsible

Once you hear explosion!
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Zege7716: 4:02pm On Oct 02, 2025
Codepain:
I HOPE IT ISNT A FALSE FLAG AGAIN TO BLAME THE MUSLIMS
Is that not Muslims occupation?
We know una handiwork when we see one.
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by wilson2(m): 4:02pm On Oct 02, 2025
Hmmm





Very scary sight to behold


Please someone should add more characters for me
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Gotocourt: 4:02pm On Oct 02, 2025
Lemme call PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU to fish Dem out tongue
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by ednut1(m): 4:03pm On Oct 02, 2025
After they have paid rent for October. Wahala be like jingle bell
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by debanj326:
Tragic!

NYC got their own share of insecurity and terrorism. They exist everywhere with different magnitude and frequency.
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by xjiggy: 4:03pm On Oct 02, 2025
US need to invest in infrastructure instead of investing in wars. Dem don dey take style resemble us small small in everything... especially politics
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by joachimnkenchor(m): 4:04pm On Oct 02, 2025
I just hope no life was lost
This things happen everywhere
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by tammie24: 4:04pm On Oct 02, 2025
Trump is on the beat with these terrorist

He get their time
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by tabaralph: 4:07pm On Oct 02, 2025
Zege7716:
Is that not Muslims occupation?
We know una handiwork when we see one.
The guilty runneth when no one chases him, that’s what they are known for
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by muyico(m): 4:08pm On Oct 02, 2025
Gas?? Domestic gas or industrial Gas?? Shine more light, to dis upate
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Smartcitizen: 4:10pm On Oct 02, 2025
I'm suspecting all these Muslims in America.

They are the number one suspect because we can't underate them this days.

They need to be closely monitored for safety sake.


🙏🙏🙏
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Richtaiwo(m): 4:10pm On Oct 02, 2025
joachimnkenchor:
I just hope no life was lost
This things happen everywhere
It happens everywhere? Really?

But when a building collapse in Lagos, it happens only in Nigeria shey? Don't worry?
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by yewit37486: 4:13pm On Oct 02, 2025
Richtaiwo:
It happens everywhere? Really?

But when a building collapse in Lagos, it happens only in Nigeria shey? Don't worry?
Do you see buildings collapsing so frequently elsewhere in the world? It is clear we have issues with our building standards / regulations in this country, face it, rather than being defensive.
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Kemetian: 4:15pm On Oct 02, 2025
Smartcitizen:
I'm suspecting all these Muslims in America.

They are the number one suspect because we can't underate them this days.

They need to be closely monitored for safety sake.


🙏🙏🙏
Do you Nigerians even KNOW that white supremacist extremists are the biggest terrorism threat in America?

Is it not WHITES that have committed all the recent attacks, mass shootings and atrocities in America?

You're living on a different planet.
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by smallsmall: 4:18pm On Oct 02, 2025
Codepain:
I HOPE IT ISNT A FALSE FLAG AGAIN TO BLAME THE MUSLIMS
The 'Israeli 9/11' comes to mind.

Now, Trump can send in the military to maintain "Security" and take over the Democratic State.

Thank God no life was lost.

"Every Civilization is first destroyed from the inside, by itself, before it's actual destruction"

God Bless America and Nigeria.

#STOP THE GAZA GENOCIDE BY ZIONIST ISRAEL
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by creativejagaban: 4:19pm On Oct 02, 2025
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Richtaiwo(m): 4:19pm On Oct 02, 2025
yewit37486:
Do you see buildings collapsing so frequently elsewhere in the world? It is clear we have issues with our building standards / regulations in this country, face it, rather than being defensive.
Explanation! Explanation!! Explanation!!!

Can we now get the explanation behind aircrafts dropping like mangoes almost every month in the US recently? I know, somehow, Nigeria will be a reason for that. grin

Oya, let's get the explanation.
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Cmanforall: 4:20pm On Oct 02, 2025
Seun which one is FB?



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Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Nwaikpe: 4:22pm On Oct 02, 2025
Although it is not them again this time around, we hope they never repeat 9/11
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Brightest04(m): 4:22pm On Oct 02, 2025
I suspect Hamas hand in this. Anyways, NL terrorists' sympathizers will say otherwise or even start to jubilate
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by 2pacamarushakur(m): 4:30pm On Oct 02, 2025
Kemetian:
Do you Nigerians even KNOW that white supremacist extremists are the biggest terrorism threat in America?

Is it not WHITES that have committed all the recent attacks, mass shootings and atrocities in America?

You're living on a different planet.
Thanks for enlightening them bruv, religion has eaten so deep to folks here in the sense that their sense of reasoning are gone. It's just a pity
Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by Commentor: 4:35pm On Oct 02, 2025
Likely them white supremacists.

MAGA has empowered them further.
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