Police are investigating after the remains of an adult woman were found Sunday morning in the basement of a Brooklyn public housing building, authorities said.

The NYPD said officers responding to a 911 call about an unconscious person around 9:30 a.m. instead discovered human remains inside a residential building on Bushwick Avenue that is part of Borinquen Plaza, a New York City Housing Authority complex. Police have not said how long the woman had been dead.

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Police found the remains of an adult woman Sunday morning in a NYCHA building on Bushwick Avenue

Officers were responding to a 911 call about an unconscious person when the discovery was made

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death as the investigation continues

Few details have been released about the victim.

Vincent Valcassel, who lives in the Williamsburg area, said he learned about the discovery while getting breakfast nearby.

“I heard people screaming, and they said it was a body chopped up in the incinerator in plastic bags,” Valcassel said.

NY1 reached out to NYCHA for comment, but a spokesperson referred questions to police.

Trayvon Brown, who lives in the building, said he told investigators about noises he heard the night before the remains were found.

“I heard banging last night in the hallway,” Brown said. “There was a phone left also in the hallway by the incinerator that I found at 8 a.m. I left the cellphone in the hallway. I went back into my home for roughly half an hour and then came back at 10, and the police were out there.”

Residents and relatives of people who live in the building said the discovery has left them shaken and fearful.

“Everybody is skeptical, they’re paranoid, they’re scared,” said one person who declined to give a name. “My mother is in fear because she don’t know. The murderer could be our neighbor, could live in the building. We have no idea.”

Another person said the violence was difficult to comprehend.

“We’re losing too many people over craziness, and it’s got to stop,” the person said. “It’s just unbearable, bro. I don’t wish that on nobody. It’s a horrible thing to be going through. Who could do that to a woman?”

Police said the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death as the investigation continues.