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Ceiling collapses on 2-year-old girl at Sack Wern Houses

Members of a Bronx family say a bedroom ceiling collapsed on top of a 2-year-old girl in their NYCHA apartment Thursday. The family says Tempress Rivera was playing with a doll house when the ceiling

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