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Tenants in apartments next to the collapsed chimney will be displaced for at least the next two days.

“Look, this building, you pushed the wall and it would make a hole,” one resident said.

A spokesperson for District Attorney Darcel Clark said her investigations division is working with the city’s fire and buildings departments.

Sandy Imhoff despaired of ever seeing her feline roommates again.

Willis Moore had worked at the garage for at least 14 years, according to a city employee who knew him.

The collapse of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday is one of a string of similar incidents to occur within New York in the last few years.

"[A delivery guy] started running, he looked up, and the bricks started falling. I tried to back up, and the whole side of the building, mostly the top, came down on the cars."

One employee was repairing a second-floor towel dispenser when the building "began creaking ominously," but he was able to escape with only minor injuries.

"I just went out of my building to go to the car and saw the building collapse and a big storm of dust rise in its place."

The building collapse in the Bronx that killed one worker and injured several others on Tuesday was caused by heavy construction materials that were overloaded near the top of the structure.