Tag: water main

A water main broke at 102nd Street, flooding the subway below and causing the MTA to shut down the tracks. Citizen videos showed water bursting through

An all-hands-on-deck effort mopped up an enormous mess at 99th Street and Broadway on Thursday, so that the city was able to restore water service by 9:30 p.m.

Police shut down West End Avenue between 66th and 70th Street early Wednesday morning after a water main break there. As of about 8:45 a.m. they

A leak in the plumbing at 185 West End Avenue caused the city to shut off water to the building on Saturday afternoon, according to a resident and the

Water that gushed from a broken water main flooded Ballet Hispanico at 167 West 89th Street on Monday night, rising six feet in the building’s basement

A busted water main turned Central Park West around 96th street into a flowing river on Wednesday night, causing emergency officials to block

Water gushed out of the ground on 103rd street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive around 10 p.m. on Saturday night, flooding

West End Avenue was closed from 64th to 66th street on Monday morning after a water main broke and flooded the street. We received the following from the city's Office of Emergency Management: "Due to a water main break, DEP customers on West End Ave between West 64th St and ...

A hot new restaurant and a longtime favorite on Columbus Avenue between 84th and 85th streets have both been forced to close for an extended period of time because of a water main break on Columbus Avenue.

October 16, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 60 Degrees.

April 20, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 71 Degrees.

October 4, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 63 Degrees. News: Scarlett Johansson hosted a fundraiser for Borough President (and mayoral candidate) Scott Stringer at the Plaza. I particularly like this line: "After more than an hour inside the tony Central Park South hotel, Johansson and Stringer, who share an interest ...

September 26, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 79 Degrees. Notices: We posted a brand-new list of events this week, with dozens of great things to do in the neighborhood. News: ABC News has fully unveiled its new ground-floor studio on West 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, complete with the ...

September 21, 2011 Weather: Afternoon showers, High of 75 Degrees. Notices: If you’d like your photographs considered for our morning bulletin, please send them to info at westsiderag dot com. And if you aren’t already, please follow us on facebook and twitter and sign up for our email newsletter in ...

An eyewitness video we posted below shows how a river of water rushed through the Upper West Side after a water main broke on Monday morning at 11 a.m. near the intersection of 106th Street and Central Park West. The flood put at least four subway lines out of commission ...

The Upper West Side has had its taste of mayhem this weekend. On Friday night, a manhole exploded on West 76th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue around 9:20 p.m., a local resident told blog My Upper West. The air was "thick with the smell of burning rubber ...