A Bronx apartment complex is being evaluated for Legionella growing in its plumbing system after multiple residents tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease, a form of pneumonia caused by the harmful bacteria, city health officials confirmed on Tuesday.

The Bronx cluster — which includes four people in two buildings, diagnosed over several months — isn’t linked to the Central Harlem Legionnaires’ outbreak that has sickened more than 100 people this summer and killed six, according to city health officials.

And officials say it’s unlikely to turn into a similar public health event, since building clusters, often linked to a building’s plumbing, are considered more contained. The deadly Central Harlem cluster has instead been linked to contaminated water-cooling towers, which can emit mis

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