Building collapse in NYC?

[The Big Ragu]

I can't find any links online yet, but there was an explosion and a potential building collapse near the Metro North tracks up around 114th -116th Street and Park Ave. in New York.

There are a lot of fire fighters there, and it looks like there is a lot of smoke around the area.

I have no idea if it is a big deal yet, but it is breaking. They have cancelled Metro North trains heading north from Grand Central Station.

 

[Bob Cook]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/building-collapse-harlem-article-1.1718814

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I still get chills whenever I see anything like this.

 

[Songbird]

Heavy.com has a few links, calling it a 3-alarm fire.

http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/03/harlem-manhattan-building-explosion-collapse/

 

[The Big Ragu]

Yeah. Not good, but I thought it might be a larger building complex (projects?) that is a block or two away. If one of them came down, there would be a lot of people hurt. Here is the building that came down (the one with the church). I hope everyone who lived there is OK.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.799655,-73.943159,3a,90y,264.24h,97.47t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sUO4eEzH6wIaeVtxjbK0bEg!2e0

 

[Songbird]

From Heavy.com's FB page.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152075074264755&set=a.10150972409199755.423332.53471909754&type=1&theater

 

[Small Town Guy]

CNN reporting Con Ed was called to the area moments before for a gas leak.

 

[cranberry]

Yeah. Not good, but I thought it might be a larger building complex (projects?) that is a block or two away. If one of them came down, there would be a lot of people hurt. Here is the building that came down (the one with the church). I hope everyone who lived there is OK.

It's a block or two north of the Taft housing project on a dilapidated /not yet gentrified block. The Metro-North tracks can't be much more than a couple hundred feet away from the building, if that.

 

[cranberry]

Two dead and 15 injured. This gives you an idea how close it is to the Metro-North tracks.