Panic gripped residents in Bronx on Wednesday morning after part of a 20-storey public housing apartment building at 207 Alexander Avenue collapsed. The New York City Fire Department confirmed that a section of the structure’s corner crumbled into rubble around 8:10 am (local time) but said there were no immediate reports of injuries. Authorities suspect the incident involved the collapse of an incinerator shaft at the Mitchel Houses, a city-owned public housing complex in the Mott Haven area. However, the cause of the collapse has not been confirmed yet and investigation is underway. Video footage from the scene showed one corner of the high-rise reduced to debris stretching from the ground floor to the roof. Eyewitness videos captured a thick cloud of dust spreading across th

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