Commuters were stopped in their tracks Wednesday morning after an explosion sheared off the side of a high-rise apartment building in New York City. Story here 👉️ https://t.co/KsEnfYa7vn | A gas explosion in an apartment building in the Bronx caused a partial collapse on Wednesday morning. pic.twitter.com/Gxuf1re87u — FDNY (@FDNY) October 1, 2025“Feeling it and the intensity, and going downstairs, you could barely go downstairs, everybody is trying to go downstairs. New Yorkers, I have been briefed about the emergency situation taking place in the Mott Haven area of the Bronx. “New Yorkers, I have been briefed about the emergency situation taking place in the Mott Haven area of the Bronx,” he wrote.