A busted water main turned Central Park West around 96th street into a flowing river on Wednesday night, causing emergency officials to block off the road and reroute B and C trains.
Marie who took the photo above in the early evening (she estimates 6:30 to 7 p.m.), said that there was water flowing as far away as Columbus and 97th street.
At 9:12 p.m., emergency officials sent out the following notice: “Due to a water main break, B Train service is suspended in both directions between 145th Street, MN, and Brighton Beach, BK. Southbound C Trains are running express from 125th Street to 59th Street, MN. For updates, visit www.mta.info.”
Update: “Con Ed is temporarily shutting power to 354 Central Park West, a 5-story building, 355 Central Park West, a 5-story building, and 360 Central Park West, a 16-story highrise, due to water entering electrical panels in those buildings,” ABC News reported. The M96 and M106 were also rerouted. DEP and FDNY are trying to shut the water off.
We are awaiting more details from the Department of Environmental Protection.
Photos by Marie.
the word is “burst”…A burst water main…..
Though the word ‘burst’ usually causes the condition being described—a sudden break or split, with rapid leakage—it implies that the break arose through too great pressure on a proper or weakened containing surface.
The word ‘bust’ is apt here given that we know nothing of the conditions of the pipe or the water it contained. after all, ‘bust’s’ synonyms include ‘burst’, ‘crack’, ‘rupture’ and other useful words.
Do you agree?
I grew up outside the USA and for me the word ‘bust’ has always reminded me the language of ‘The Bowery Boys’, especially ‘Sach’ and ‘Louie’.
Re: “and for me the word ‘bust’ has always reminded me the language of ‘The Bowery Boys’”
And, as an indicator of just how confusing idiomatic English must be to the ESoFL (English as a Second or Foreign Language) crowd, consider the following perfectly legitimate uses of the word ‘bust”:
1) Jayne Mansfield had quite a BUST!
2) That party was a total BUST.
3) Joey and his homeboys got BUSTed.
4) Do dat again and you’ll get a BUST in the mout’!
😉
In the immortal words of Balki Bartokomous, Central Park West or Burst!
More infrastructure falling apart. I wonder what the result would be if this water main were a large pipe carrying gas. Scary!
agree! focus on our crumbling infrastructure and subways. things that benefit ALL of us New Yorkers, and not just special interest groups.
Sure would be great if DiBlasio focused on getting our house in order and improving our infrastructure before building more housing and stressing the outdated infrastructure even further!
Hike up the water tax and spend the proceeds on updating our water system.
I am just glad I am over here on West End Avenue.
Nancy
I’ll bet you have a 100+ year old water main running under the street under your front door too.
How soon they forget
https://www.westsiderag.com/2013/09/16/water-main-break-closes-part-of-west-end-avenue-many-without-water