A cab caught fire on the Williamsburg Bridge today. The fire department told us they got the call around 2 p.m. and there were no injuries.
It happens sometimes. Here’s a view of the wreckage, via cycling advocate Keegan Stephan’s Twitter.
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A Year After the Fire, East Yoga Is Back On Its Feet (er, Hands?)
You can’t keep a good yoga studio downward.
Almost a year to the day that a fire tore through it, East Yoga has announced that it’ll reopen Sunday, October 13. “A lot of hard work, perseverance, and relying on the support of our community has all paid off!” the popular East Village studio writes in its newsletter, referring to the benefits it held after it lost its space at 212 Avenue B.
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Let’s Just Say North Brooklyn Had Some Infrastructure Issues Today
Leaking parapet at 349 Bedford (Photo: Anna Silman)
A quick update on those four manholes that caught fire near 176 Maujer Street, where three residences were evacuated due to CO readings. ConEd says the cause of the fires has yet to be determined, but there are no customers without power. And the FDNY says the fire, which broke out shortly before 1:08 p.m., was under control by 2:20 p.m., with no injuries to report.
While trouble came from below in Bushwick, it came from above in Williamsburg.
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Let's Just Say North Brooklyn Had Some Infrastructure Issues Today
Leaking parapet at 349 Bedford (Photo: Anna Silman)
While trouble came from below in Bushwick, it came from above in Williamsburg.
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A Fire Broke Out at the Bowery Hotel This Morning
(Photo: Anna Silman)
Our favorite Bowery hotspot got even hotter this morning. Around 11:40 a.m., an electrical fire started on the 14th floor of the Bowery Hotel. Firefighters had it contained to an electrical room there by 12:07 p.m. and there were no injuries, the fire department said.
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Alaska Bounces Back From Fire (With Flaming Shots, Natch)
Less than a month after a “freak electrical fire” cleared Alaska and forced it to close, the Bushwick bar is back on its feet. It’ll reopen tomorrow, according to a Facebook invite that promises “an INORDINATE AMOUNT of open flame candles!!!” (they’re kidding, they’re kidding). Here’s the good word.
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8 Injured By Possible Explosion and Partial Building Collapse in Chinatown
Eight people are in the hospital after an apparent explosion and building collapse in Chinatown this afternoon.
Shi Zu Lie, a tenant of 17 Pike Street, was in his first-floor apartment when he heard an explosion and a wall fell on him. He managed to crawl out from under the rubble and was eating lunch on the sidewalk when we spoke to him through a translator. “I’m very scared and upset,” he said, his eyes red and scratches and cuts visible on an arm and a leg.
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Baked Alaska? Fire Clears Out Bushwick Bar [Update]
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