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Bronx Apartment Collapse Explained: Boilers, Bricks, Stop Orders

🚨 Bronx Apartment Collapse – What Really Happened? 🚨 What caused the gas explosion near a boiler that set off part of a brick high-rise apartment building in the Bronx to suddenly collapse, sending tons of masonry bricks crashing to the ground? Miraculously, no injuries have been reported; however, the collapse raises serious questions about New York City’s aging infrastructure, building inspections, and the safety of multi-wythe brick construction. Jeff Ostroff examines the building, the witness videos of the collapse, building permit violations, and stop-work orders in search of a root cause for this 20-story brick apartment building owned by NYCHA. The incinerator/chimney shaft failed at the corner of the building at Mitchel Houses (205–207 Alexander Ave, Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx, NYC). No injuries were reported; the cause is being investigated (reports mention a gas explosion). Incinerator/chimney shafts in mid-20th-century towers were typically masonry shafts (often multi-wythe brick or CMU with liners) for fire rating and heat resistance. Multi-wythe wall systems are categorized as composite, non-composite, or veneer depending on how the wythes are tied and whether there is a cavity. Mitchel Houses were built in the 1960s, and capital-project material mentions brick repairs/roof work, consistent with brick-clad, mid-century NYCHA construction. That era commonly used brick veneer + CMU backup for façades, while shafts/cores could be multi-wythe masonry. (We don’t have the specific shop drawings yet. 00:00 Witness videos of Bronx Apartment Collapse 00:43 Brick apartment building collapse narrowly misses playground park 01:00 What the brick incinerator shaft looked like before the collapse 02:30 Slow-motion analysis of partial building collapse 03:30 Inspecting the pile of collapsed bricks/street level response 04:15 Analyzing brick veneer and backup wythe brick layers 05:45 Firemen on the roof overlooking the collapse site 06:43 Close-up photos of post-building collapse damage 07:34 Close-up: bottom of incinerator shaft where boiler is 08:16 Brick walls, wythes, and backup walls explained 09:28 Stop Work Orders issued by NYC at Mitchel Houses 205–207 Alexander Ave 10:30 View of likely boiler model number based on permits 11:05 Safety protocols that might have failed to prevent the gas explosion. In this video, we break down: 📌 What eyewitnesses saw when the walls gave way 🧱 What “wythes” are, and why this building appeared to have three layers of brick 🔥 The role of old incinerator and boiler shafts in NYC high-rise failures ⚠️ Why was there an active Stop Work Order on the property at the time of the collapse 🏗️ What the city requires building owners to do with abandoned shafts and old boilers ❓ The big question: could this have been prevented? 👀 Watch until the end for a look at the DOB records, the stop work order language, and what this means for tenants across NYC.