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@sonia_louise27 sending LOVE uptown to East Harlem today #116thStreet so far my loves are all ok. scary.

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#prayforharlem #nyc

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Repost from @exit21mag #PRAYFORHARLEM

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#prayforharlem #nyc

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#PrayforHarlem 🙏📖

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#prayforharlem #nyc

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Dark day in East Harlem.

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Building explosion in East Harlem🙏, God bless the victims 🙏

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Building collapse in NYC

Two New York City buildings collapsed on Wednesday in an explosion believed to be caused by a gas leak, killing two people, injuring at least 36, and setting off a search for more victims feared trapped in the rubble, officials said.

The blast, which scattered debris across nearby rooftops, brought down the neighboring five-story buildings, with a total of 15 apartments, at about 9:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) on a largely residential Upper Manhattan block at East 116th Street and Park Avenue. (Reuters)

(Photo Credit : Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

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3 Dead, Several Missing After Explosion Levels Buildings In East Harlem

Gas Leak Reported Just Before Blast That Also Left At Least 70 Injured

Mar. 12 2014

Three people are dead and at least nine people are missing after a massive explosion rocked East Harlem Wednesday morning, leveling two buildings and sending smoke and flames billowing into the air.

At least 70 others were also injured in the blast, which happened at 9:31 a.m. Wednesday on Park Avenue at 116th Street, 1010 WINS reported.

The explosion reduced two five-story buildings to rubble. It also shattered store windows for blocks and hurled glass, bricks and other debris throughout the neighborhood.

The explosion and building collapse were so strong it generated weak seismic signals that were recorded at seismographic stations in New York City, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory said.

Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network is a regional center for the Advanced National Seismic System.

The seismic waves were recorded at both the Central Park station and the Fordham University station in the Bronx at 9:31 a.m.

Witnesses said the explosion could be heard 40 blocks away.

“I came out, looked up and a building was just gone,” witness Mack Mayor said. “It’s just like a war zone out here.”

“Like a bomb, an explosion. Very loud. It scared the daylights out of me,” East Harlem resident Wilfredo Cruz told CBS 2′s Don Champion.

“I was sleeping in my bed and all of a sudden something blew up and the bed started shaking, the floor. And I said ‘what is this,’ I thought the world was coming to an end,” said East Harlem resident Robert Santiago.

“The smoke started to rise. It looked like something fell because it wasn’t like a fire. It just looked like debris smoke, similar to 9/11,” said witness Samuel Paul, who was on the 15th floor of a building on 125th Street.

More than 250 firefighters responded to the scene. By 5 p.m. the flames had mostly been knocked down.

The mayor’s office said nine occupants of the building remain unaccounted for, according to Fire Marshals and the NYPD.

Searches of the street have been completed and did not produce any additional victims, the mayor’s office said.

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@studiomuseum We love our neighbors!

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116st Spaha, East Harlem or Spanish Harlem it’s all the same mi barrio #aprilphotos #aprilchallenge #photooftheday #photosofnewyork #photosofmanhattan #photosofthesubway #mta #eastharlem #spanishharlem #subwayphotos #stilllife

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#eastharlem #pleasantave #m116 

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Columbia University, circa 1903. via Mental_Floss - "How the Neighborhoods of Manhattan Got Their Names," "The Heights formerly known as Vandewater, from the name of Dutch settler Harmon Vandewater, became Morningside around the time Columbia University was expanding into the area (around 1896). A city surveyor appraising the surrounding land found one spot he deemed unsuitable for anything other than a city park. This particular park was situated on the east side of a hill, perfectly positioned for a nice wash of sunlight every morning. In 1870, the city named it “Morning Side Park,” and it is believed to have inspired this particular Heights’ new first name of Morningside. The neighborhood's current boundaries are 110th to 125th, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River."

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@daliawalia #116th lookin kinda magical right now #Across116thSt#WinterEdition

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Snowstorm hitting 116th street. #mwalker #eastharlem #manhattan #116 #newyork #nyc #winter #snow #street #city #urban #walking #instapic #pic #photo #people (v místě E 116th street)

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Jan 21 / 2014

E 116th Street Analysis of Stores

Past days I put down all the shops, restaurants, salons in my area of 116th. Click, zoom and uncover this fascinating commercial - cultural - residential mosaic of one of the most vivid streets of East Harlem. Let’s have a closer look at 4 blocks between Park and 1st Avenue. 

- 187 Business Amenities

- 36 Food related  I Restaurants, Coffee, Fast Foods or Pubs I 

- 96 Shops I Gift, Jewels, Music Stores, Fashion, Deli, Supermarket, Religious, Ethic shops, Pharmacies I

- 19 Wellness and Beauty I Tattoo, Barber, Nails I

- 3 Culture and Education I Churches I

- 26 Services I Banks, Attorneys, Money loans, Laundry, House Services, Administration, Travel I

- 7 Health I Doctors I

- 11 Transport Amenities I Subway, Buses I 

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