Bronx apartment building partially collapses with people inside: police

NEW YORK — An entire corner of a six-story Bronx apartment building collapsed Monday, officials said. First responders raced to the scene of the destruction on Billingsley Terrace near Phelan Place in Morris Heights just before 3:40 p.m. EST, according to police. A man who works in a bodega across the street watched as two men worked on the building, which a Department of Buildings source said is under construction inside and out. “Before it came down, the scaffolding started creaking, then the whole thing started coming apart,” said Ahmed Bendary, 23. “People were screaming.” One of the men w...