A massive piece of a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx in New York City crumbled and fell to the ground after an apparent gas explosion. Somehow, no one was hurt.
As you’ll see below, it’s a very large building and the portion that broke away then caused a chain effect with bricks and mortar raining down on the ground below.
Do the people of New York City think that electing Zohran Mamdani is going to improve the city’s infrastructure?
The New York Post reports:
Miracle in the Bronx after gas explosion blows through NYC apartment building, sends bricks flying to street
A massive gas explosion blew a huge chunk out of a Bronx public housing building Wednesday morning, sending bricks raining down onto the sidewalk and leaving a gaping hole in the facade.
The 8:10 a.m. blast at the high-rise at the Mitchel Houses project on Alexander Avenue near East 135th Street left a 20-story gash along a corner of the building, and sent firefighters scrambling to the scene, officials said.
“I heard like the building was moving,” resident Merlyno Olivo, 51, told The Post. “I heard like a big boom. I thought, ‘What is this? Is it an earthquake or something like that?’ But it started shaking quick.”
Tenant Linda Duke, 79, said she fled down five flights of stairs with the help of a younger resident — who carried her on his back.
“You want to know how loud it is? Get a firecracker and light it and listen,” Duke said. “I heard people hollering. All I could see is smoke. I couldn’t see nothing. You couldn’t see s–t.”
Here’s a video of the collapse:
Twenty Story building partially collapses. Not in China. In the Bronx.
We don’t have to live like this. pic.twitter.com/ZbxPuaMoeg
— BLACK DUMPLING™ (@blackdumpling58) October 3, 2025
Look at the extent of the damage:
Huge chunk of Bronx building plummets to streets after gas explosion, miraculously not injuring anyone https://t.co/gy0zW117VK pic.twitter.com/XItqUXxesz
— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) October 1, 2025
Gas explosion in the Bronx on Wednesday morning caused an entire corner of a building to collapse.
Reportedly, the explosion took out the incinerator shaft of the tall apartment building.
Thankfully, no injuries have been reported yet.
(ABC) pic.twitter.com/zixFZheiaf
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) October 1, 2025
When Trump talks about America First, he is talking about focusing on fixing and maintaining American infrastructure so that things like this don’t happen in the first place. Do the people of New York City get it now?