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Building Explosion And Collapse Reported On Park Avenue In Harlem, People Trapped - Live Webcast

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Moments ago a building in the Harlem part of New York appears to have i) exploded and ii) collapsed, with people trapped inside.

  • EXPLOSION REPORTED ON 116TH AND PARK IN NYC

From NY1:

Emergency crews are reportedly on the scene of a possible building explosion in East Harlem.

 

Details are limited but the incident reportedly happened this morning in the area of East 116th Street and Park Avenue.

 

NY1 has a crew heading to the scene and will have more information as it becomes available.

Pix11 adds:

There are reports that people are trapped after part of the building collapsed.  It is unclear what caused the explosion at this time, but Con Ed was requested on rush for a gas leak. 

And from NBC New York:

Authorities are responding to reports of an explosion and collapse in Manhattan.

 

FDNY said it was responding to 116th Street and Park Avenue. Smoke could be seen from midtown, a few miles away.

 

There was no immediate word about injuries.

 

Metro-North trains in the area were halted because of debris on tracks, and some passengers reported being ordered off their trains at 125th Street.

Live stream from the scene of the explosion:

CBS New York Live Stream

Photos from the scene:

 

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Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:54 | 4538321 kliguy38
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Doesn't slick willy have his office there

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:54 | 4538325 fightthepower
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Nat Gas leak.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:57 | 4538340 Winston Churchill
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Two Iranian gas inspectors were dispatched to the scene just prior to the

explosion, according to the MSM.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:00 | 4538359 Infinite QE
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Iranian passports found plus "Death to Israel" posters.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:04 | 4538385 HoofHearted
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I was wonderinf ig Bush did it, or if Putin finally said he was going to teach Obama a lesson...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:12 | 4538421 gdogus erectus
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Real estate bubble burst.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:14 | 4538424 krispkritter
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Aaaaandd Silverstein dials his insurance agent...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:16 | 4538432 Cognitive Dissonance
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"I distinctly heard two explosions separated by a few minutes. So does that mean I can collect double?" - Silverstein

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:20 | 4538446 johnQpublic
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"any broken windows?" asked the keynesian

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:23 | 4538454 MeMadMax
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Who gives a crap... 

Prolly a meth lab anyways....

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:27 | 4538473 Wolferl
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Collapsing housing bubble?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:24 | 4538895 Joe Davola
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Now should they just leave the rubble there to appease the anti-gentrification crowd?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:26 | 4539637 Freddie
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Obamo's drones screw up and kill the wrong brown people.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 12:42 | 4539254 V in PA
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"Who gives a crap... 

Prolly a meth lab anyways...."

 

Owned by Silverstein

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:12 | 4539366 monoloco
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Jewish lightning is more likely.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:14 | 4539589 jimmytorpedo
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Probably the last few files into the Enron investigation were held there.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 15:15 | 4539903 Rafferty
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"I distinctly heard two explosions separated by a few minutes. So does that mean I can collect double?"

 

Yes if it's Judge Herrenstein again (they both attend the same synagogue).  Will probably allow him to claim for the explosive charges as well, legitimate busineness expense...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:17 | 4538436 superflex
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How many billions in goverment bonds were in there?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:34 | 4539439 Larry Dallas
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Me thinks its that special type of lightening that occurs on a clear morning prior to just getting approvals to build a condo.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:29 | 4538485 Yoki
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meth lab and a gas leak = Winning combination

Two Iranians came to fix the gas leak

Building explodes due to Russian made gas valves

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:30 | 4538496 Luckhasit
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That actually made me laugh.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:05 | 4538388 Kirk2NCC1701
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Must be part of Putin's plan to annex Harlem.  ;-)

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:16 | 4538429 agent default
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He can have it.  The only credible threat the US can make at this point.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 18:27 | 4540643 Antifaschistische
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What, what, what about the Globetrotters?   That's what I thought came from  Harlem.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:30 | 4539669 Freddie
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Yeah - Harlem looks just like the Sudetenland.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:05 | 4538389 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Named Bjorn Alfredson and Salvatore Ami.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:43 | 4538613 WillyGroper
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Silverstein at work again?

What's the insurance policy worth? Double?

Any PM's stored there?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:58 | 4538344 Headbanger
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Must be a North Korean cruise missile!    Let's go get em!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:04 | 4538377 Winston Churchill
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Make it a North Koran missile and its a twofer.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:06 | 4538392 RSloane
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Very clever Winnie ;)

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:04 | 4538380 Thought Processor
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My money is on Clinton's office, or maybe the building where he's stored all his 'papers'.

 

And................  it's gone.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:35 | 4538534 Tom_333
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False Flag?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:11 | 4538418 rubiconsolutions
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Is the entire city sheltering in place yet?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:45 | 4539015 WillyGroper
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Betcha a lot of people gonna need some xtra strength Tide for those skid marks.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:43 | 4539467 XitSam
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NYC lockdown. Door to door searches for 30 round magazines, no warrants needed because terrizm.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:32 | 4539656 Freddie
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Blackwater thought that the NYC marathon was today.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:28 | 4538483 toady
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Malaysian 777 trying to find slick willies address using google maps?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:45 | 4538619 Mine Is Bigger
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No, it's several blocs north and several blocs west of the accident site.  It probably takes nearly 10 minutes on foot.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:36 | 4539687 JuliaS
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Con los terroristas. Do the Harlem shake!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:54 | 4538324 1835jackson
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Snap! You are on twitter.

 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:54 | 4538326 The Reich
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poor 9/11 imitation?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:55 | 4538328 Truther
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I hate false flags. I thought the NSA can detect pre-crimes!!! If it was one.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:55 | 4538330 freeasabee1
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meth lab.

 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:00 | 4538353 Buckaroo Banzai
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Beat me to it.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:07 | 4538398 ParkAveFlasher
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I'm going to say gas leak, ignited by Lightening du Pape Fromage.  Many of those buildings up there - and "there" is a big place, if you've never been - are weedy warrens of concrete labrynths not properly kept up for decades.

The trains are running awfully today.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:07 | 4538397 -.-
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Two male, mid-twenties, unemployed individuals improperly using Butane to blast a QP of marijuana into Hash Oil ("Honey")...if not the Meth Lab hypothesis

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:11 | 4538411 DIgnified
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I'll say butane for making wax. 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:23 | 4538459 orangedrinkandchips
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no shit!

 

I wouldnt rule it out. I've heard the wax is strong.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 12:24 | 4539184 DIgnified
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Its not that strong.  ReeferMadness media coverage. 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:59 | 4539540 LFMayor
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I think you're spot on man.  That one dumbass beaner a few months ago on the west coast set off butane in a hotel bathroom and it flashed so freakin hot the pattern of the flowers on the shower curtain were decopaged onto his skin.

Fucker damn near reached Nagasaki Flash Photography levels.  Doin jobs that them white breads won't, and such.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:42 | 4539700 Freddie
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+1

I don't read the Calif online newspapers that much but apparently this is pretty common in CA now.  Beaners near Sacremento and North Bay plus San Jose and further south.  Burning up homes, apts, and other buildings with butane.

Here are three fires in Spokane, WA in one story!

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022857622_potextractionxml.html

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:12 | 4538422 krispkritter
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Breaking Bad...Harlem Edition

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:56 | 4538333 skwid vacuous
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must have been a nice view for the banksters as they sped past on metro north...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:56 | 4538334 LawsofPhysics
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Don't overthink this people...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtjyqgZAUk

 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:30 | 4538494 Sabibaby
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So you're saying the Mafia is working with Al-Qaeda?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 09:59 | 4538351 Slartebartfast
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Got to wonder, how many CIA terror attacks will the Chinese put up with (another one ths morning), before they retaliate?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:00 | 4538355 1stepcloser
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Did the BBC Report it early?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:03 | 4538375 WTFRLY
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Took the words out of my mouth

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:01 | 4538362 Boondocker
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wish I could muster some sympathy, but given the idiots who vote for idiots there..... meh

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:02 | 4538367 dbTX
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It just goes to show you, it's always something.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:02 | 4538369 Devotional
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ban buildings from exploding?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:27 | 4538480 i-dog
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Ban buildings!

The number of building explosions that involve buildings is intolerable.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:02 | 4538372 youngman
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Any pressure cookers close by

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:02 | 4538374 Rising Sun
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meth lab

 

with the markets going to the moon, the locals have to feed the banksters' habits

 

when a few rails won't do you, time to switch it up a little

 

 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:07 | 4538376 EvlTheCat
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Well that's a damn shame.  So mister mayor how does this pre-crime stuff work again?  I am a bit confused..

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:04 | 4538379 whatthecurtains
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Ah another tesst for Di Blasio to fucking fail. 

 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:10 | 4538381 IridiumRebel
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Top pic is from the Metro North Station at 125th and Park. There are a lot of Brownstones in that area. A lot of property has been bought up, fixed and gentrified right there due to closeness to the Park, Metro North and subways. Probably is a gas leak explosion from shoddy work. Hope the folks get out ok. I will never say it enough, I AM GLAD I AM OUT OF NYC. It was fun for 7 years, but there are too many people in a small space of real estate. DeBlasshole will effectively "Detroit" all that remains. I wish you New Yorkers luck. I really like you all a lot. New Yorkers are great. I just cannot live amongst tens of millions anymore. 

 

edit: after viewing the live stream, that building has been totally leveled and whoever, God rest their souls, was inside is now dead as fuck.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:11 | 4538414 ParkAveFlasher
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Well said!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:17 | 4538434 IridiumRebel
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another banker suicide?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:36 | 4538543 ParkAveFlasher
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Coroner's cause of death: spontaneous explosion.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:53 | 4539057 reallythinpancakes
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Yes, these things happen all the time, just not widely reported

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:41 | 4538589 Mine Is Bigger
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Amen!  I lived in NYC for nine years, four of them in an apartment not so far from the accident site.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:46 | 4538624 gtb
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New Yorkers are great?  How so?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:20 | 4538870 IridiumRebel
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Well as a person who has lived in 12 cities, they are generally nicer, more welcoming and have a sense of care for their fellow citizens. I once saw a group of them bust out a window to attempt to save a person who was having a heart attack in their car. i do not know if the person lived or die, but seeing three random folks break a window to get to a person for help was amazing. I had a lotta respect for them after that. Sandy also had a lot of humanitarian stories, you just only saw the bad. It was bad due to the numbers of folks in need, but generally, if the shit hits the fan, I would rather be with a New Yorker than any other big city folks. The Seattlites would surely let you die as they sauntered off stoned with "Beats by Dre" jamming. I like little cities the best so that's why i moved to a little city. Hope this helps. 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:07 | 4538399 The Most Intere...
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At least we have a handle on 32 oz. soft drinks.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:07 | 4538400 headhunt
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probably someone formulating illegal 'Big Gulps' and the floor collapsed

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:09 | 4538405 Took Red Pill
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I'm guessing a gas leak.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:11 | 4538415 RaceToTheBottom
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WS'ers storing Gold and Silver at home and the floors collapsed?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:11 | 4538420 glaucon was right
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It was Putin I tell you.

 

Stealth cruise missile or something.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:14 | 4538425 williambanzai7
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Investigators tracked the building turning left and believe it may have been aborting...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:36 | 4539446 Iam_Silverman
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"Investigators tracked the building turning left"

Good point!  What is the range of a Malaysian Airlines triple-7 anyway?  Maybe you could photoshop a tail section in there (replete with MA logo) and someone bending over lifting up some rubble and exclaiming "hey, look what I found!"? 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:14 | 4538426 EuropeanBankster
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In other news: "Implosion shakes lower manhattan"

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:16 | 4538431 Cow
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Perfect time to invade Canada, eh?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:24 | 4538460 Yoki
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its too cold up there for you, 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:32 | 4539435 Iam_Silverman
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"its too cold up there for you"

Actually, you'd be surprised at how many Texas Longhorn breeders there are in Canada.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:16 | 4538433 RevRex
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Was it another controlled demolition like Building Seven?

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:29 | 4538488 Flagit
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Was it another controlled demolition

 

no, this was clearly a banker suicide. wait for the rubble to be cleared.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:21 | 4538450 XXL66
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on streetview you can see there were 2 buildings, they are completely gone, a spanisch christian churche and a piano repair shop.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:22 | 4538453 GrinandBearit
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Barack Obama hates black people.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:24 | 4538463 SpanishGoop
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Looks like they are trying to drown the survivors.

 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:26 | 4538464 Seize Mars
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God dammit, if only they would implant us with RFID Chips this shit wouldn't happen. Oh and also disarm us. Thanks.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:27 | 4538474 q99x2
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I think it was likely a gas leak. When I visited NYC last month I had to travel across the Polanski skyway bridge. Looking up as crossing I could that literally tons of concrete had fallen from the crossbeams over the decades. That whole city is decaying and crumbling down in pieces. I can only imagine what it is like in the areas where there ain't no white folks.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:39 | 4538577 ParkAveFlasher
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Google Maps lied to you.  The Pulaski Skyway is in Jersey City, lofting you over the Best Part of the Meadowlands, and if my memory serves, it is made of steel black as the boils on Sauron's ass!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:27 | 4538479 Billy Sol Estes
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of ass-holes.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:29 | 4538484 Philippines
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This is not the first building in new york to explode and collapse, it started happening around 2001

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:30 | 4538492 NYPoke
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A natural gas explosion should have more fire & black smoke from melting "stuff".  Or not.

 

That looks one heck of a lot like a demolition.  Somebody mixing larger explosives?  Natural Gas?  No idea.

 

Still, looks like an implosion more than an explosion.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:55 | 4539521 LFMayor
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yeah, you want more smoke you need more product.  bales of ditch weed or jeri-curl in mixed quantities would get some effects going.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:33 | 4538510 DIgnified
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Huffpost has this front and center.  Foot that reason alone I'm willing to guess tptb will try to do something with this. Just my opinion. 

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:34 | 4538519 Billy Sol Estes
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 Brooklyn Strong

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:35 | 4538535 Platinum
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The 5-Alarm fire in San Francisco last night, now this...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:37 | 4538548 no1wonder
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It could be that missing plane from Malaysia finally reaching his target ...
Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:42 | 4538599 squid427
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I thought the stimulus fixed all our failing infastucture.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:55 | 4539070 WillyGroper
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Shovel ready. Yea

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 10:51 | 4538672 asscannon101
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Please let the Clintons be in there, Please let the Clintons be in there, Please let the Clintons be in there, Please let the Clintons be in there, Please let the Clintons be in there...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:01 | 4538755 Almost Solvent
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Don't be silly - there was no media at that location!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:56 | 4539074 WillyGroper
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I thought that was Schumer's schtick.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:01 | 4538749 tony wilson
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this is not a false flag

this is cia mossad normalcy.

 

and larry silverstein said it was a sad day the owners would not sell for the redevelopment price we offered.

so we got are dancing mossad chums to pull it so we could buy the levelled site for pennies.

ohh the saturn demonic  humanity of it all.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:05 | 4538776 GIABO
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"Pull it"

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:18 | 4538854 czarangelus
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Iran did it!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:25 | 4538900 adr
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Baby we movin on up, Obama gave us mo checks fo mo babies. Don't foget to turn off the gas.

Oh hell no, we takin this stove. I didn't feed no twelve babies to not take my stove.

Yank, massive gas leak building up for weeks. BOOM!

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:27 | 4538908 Smiley
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Gentrification by force.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:30 | 4538925 buzzsaw99
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BULLISH

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:39 | 4538975 alagon
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Rumor has it that Obama's birth certificate was inside that building.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 11:58 | 4539082 quasimodo
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Que the theme song from "The Jeffersons"

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 12:15 | 4539148 LFMayor
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"Have you seen the well to-do?  Up along Park Avenue?"

Putting on the Ritz, ya'll.  Spinnin rims, even.

Probably bums pissing in the stairwells again, rotted the damn floor out.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 12:20 | 4539170 Infinite QE
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They will find the wreckage of the Malaysia airline in the basement. Some sort of new Philadelphia Experiment.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:26 | 4539408 diesheepledie
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simple rule: don't light the pipe when you smell gas ...

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:45 | 4539476 XitSam
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Banker comitted suicide.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 13:57 | 4539534 earnyermoney
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Ukranian trying to reroute some Natuarl gas.

Wed, 03/12/2014 - 14:03 | 4539556 Cornholiovanderbilt
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These natural gas lines must be banned.  They are Rayciss!!

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