On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 07:55:08 -0700, Carol DeVolder wrote:
I'm glad you're OK, Mike.
Thank you. I was working on lecture notes at home and I heard the explosion. I thought it must have been a manhole explosion because they have been happening a bit in NYC (salt and chemicals get into the underground cables and things go boom). Then I hear the fire engines. Usually, their sirens last for a brief period of time but now they were lasting longer and it sounds like more are coming. I go to look out the windows and see that a few blocks north there's smoke coming out of building. And then there are the flames coming up from the roof -- that was not a good sign. What I saw is represented in the first photo on this website: http://www.newsweek.com/explosion-rocks-east-village-building-nyc-unconfirmed-reports-deaths-injuries-317043 That white building in front of the flames is an old catering hall that NYU owns and uses as a performance space and classrooms for the Tisch School of the Arts. This had to be evacuated and is still closed. You might be able to make out the violet NYU flag out front. The little brown building to the left of the white building used to be the entrance to the Fillmore East music theatre (which got torn down and an apartment building was put in its place). Further down on the page is a picture of a street scene. This is on east 7th Street and "Taras Schevchenko Place". The odd looking building behind the people is one of the new academic buildings that Cooper Union put up on Third Avenue (aka Cooper Square). Out of the picture to the right is McSoreley's Ale house, supposedly the oldest bar in NYC. People are looking east towards the burning buildings which are on the corner of 7th St and Second Avenue. Between Second and Third Avenues on 7th Street is an NYU dorm (aka the 7th St Residence Hall) which had to be evacuated and is still closed. On Third Avenue (Cooper Square) are the Buildings of Cooper Union, the new St. John's satellite (3rd Ave and 8th St aka St Mark's Place), and other dorm buildings on 9th St and Third Ave for NYU and Cooper Union. Second Avenue from 14th St to Houston (not like the one Texas) Street is closed and filled with fire trucks, cop cars, ambulances, and news trucks with satellite dishes. I don't know how long this situation will last because the people have to go through site slowly and by hand, looking for stuff and human remains. Feels a little like 9/11. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=43425 or send a blank email to leave-43425-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
