Seven Dead After Harlem Building Collapse
[Updated 7:30 a.m.] Fire department officials have now confirmed seven fatalities.[Updated 4:50 a.m.] Fire department officials confirmed early Thursday morning six people are dead from the explosion...
View ArticleFollowing Building Collapse, Metro-North Service Now Running In and Out of...
(Updated 5:20) All Metro-North service on the Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven lines to and from Grand Central Terminal has been fully restored.Service in and out of Manhattan had been halted for much of...
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Collapsed East Harlem Building Owned by Piano Shop Proprietor
One of two East Harlem buildings that collapsed on Wednesday morning after an apparent explosion was owned by the manager of Absolute Piano, a shop that dealt in uprights and baby grands and catered to...
View ArticleCon Ed Hunting for Possible Gas Leak in 127-Year-Old Pipe
Less than two weeks before two East Harlem buildings exploded, leaving at least eight dead, Consolidated Edison workers checked the 127-year-old gas main in front of the site and found no apparent...
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Residents of Harlem Building that Exploded Grappling with New Reality
Out of breath and shaking, Walter Leiva, 18, was frantically searching for his aunt who lived in one of the Harlem buildings that exploded Wednesday."If I have to give up a kidney or a heart, I would...
View ArticleReport Raised Red Flags About Infrastructure Before Collapse
As officials investigate whether a gas leak caused the fiery explosion in Harlem Wednesday, a new report raises concerns about the city's aging infrastructure.The explosion and collapse of the two...
View ArticleFire Smolders for Second Day in East Harlem
Rescue and recovery operations at the East Harlem site of a fatal explosion continued Thursday, as firefighters worked to extinguish remaining pockets of fire.As first responders remained on the scene,...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Gas Explosion
Investigators are still trying to find out what caused the explosion in East Harlem Wednesday that killed at least seven people and injured dozens more.Signs point to a gas leak and a faulty pipe in...
View ArticleFive of Eight Dead Identified in East Harlem Explosion
As rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear continue to search the rubble for more victims of an East Harlem gas explosion, the NYPD has identified five of the dead. The explosion killed at...
View ArticleThe Latest on the Harlem Explosion
As of 7:15 Thursday evening, the NYPD reports that eight people died as a result of the massive explosion on 116th St. in East Harlem. WNYC reporter Stephen Nessen updates the news about yesterday's...
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City Promises Housing for All People Displaced by East Harlem Explosion
Recovery and cleanup continues in East Harlem after a gas explosion leveled two buildings, leaving eight dead and hundreds displaced.Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the Department of Homeless...
View ArticleThis Week in Politics: The Mayor's Big Week
It was a big week for Mayor Bill de Blasio. An explosion leveled two apartment buildings in East Harlem — and then a plan for universal pre-kindergarten emerged in budget talks in Albany. It wasn't...
View ArticleWorshipers, Mayor Mourn Those Lost in Explosion
Congregants of the Spanish Christian church that lost its home and some members in Wednesday's explosion in East Harlem were welcomed Sunday by another neighborhood church, in a service crowded with...
View ArticleVictim of Harlem Blast Given Officer's Funeral
Bagpipes played for Griselde Camacho, one of the eight victims of the East Harlem gas explosion, as her glossy white coffin was carried into Bethel Gospel Assembly Friday morning. Camacho, 45, was a...
View ArticleFather Who Lost Much in Harlem Explosion Now Has Hope
Doctors don't usually recommended to patients that they should eat fast food. But when 15-year-old Oscar Hernandez ate Burger King for lunch yesterday, they took it as a positive sign.Oscar suffered...
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