Video shows school bus crashing into Brooklyn residential building

Surveillance video shows the moment a school bus crashed through the front of a Brooklyn apartment building on Thursday morning. 

It happened near Eastern Parkway and Albany Avenue in Crown Heights at around 7:30 a.m. 

There were no students on board, and the driver was not seriously injured, according to first responders.   

The NYPD was investigating what caused the building to go out of control. The building was evacuated as a precaution, the FDNY said. The Department of Buildings was assessing its stability.  

Surveillance video from nearby showed the bus jumping the curb before slamming into the building's entrance.

Resident Isaac Hager said he was standing on the street corner when it happened. 

"I jump into the building and then I saw he was going into the building and then I jump out," he said. "I thought he was going to take down the poll. I didn't want to get hurt, and I realized immediately, in the split of a second, that he made it in between the two poles and into the building and all of the gates move up and I was able to run out."

The bus ended up lodged in the front of the building. It came out hours later, with part of the building coming down with it. Pieces of the facade and a balcony came crashing to the ground. So did memories for Unika Richards, who grew up inside the building. She said she had just came back to collect belongings for her mother, who is out of town.

"I was a bit overwhelmed, because, if you can see, that was my balcony that actually fell," Richards said.

The American Red Cross is assisting those who were displaced.