NY Gas Leak....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/ny.gas.odor.ap/index.html
NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including Rockefeller Center.
The Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Tim Hinchey. No source had been identified.
Across the Hudson River, Jersey City, New Jersey, mayor's spokeswoman Maria Pignataro said officials there were told the odor was due to a gas leak in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, just north of Greenwich Village.
"The smell was very strong. It was very scary," said Yolanda Van Gemd, an administrator at ASA, a business school near the Empire State Building that was evacuated as a precaution.
Utility officials with Consolidated Edison had no immediate comment.
In August, seven people were treated at hospitals after a gaseous smell in the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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lovely. all here in the newsroom like to joke that manhattan is going to blow up. lovely. thanks. sigh... i hope PSE&G/ Con Ed. hurries and figures out the problem and corrects it quickly. i'm not leaving the office unless they evacuate us or its 4pm when i can leave and go home and be with hubby. sigh.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including Rockefeller Center.
The Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Tim Hinchey. No source had been identified.
Across the Hudson River, Jersey City, New Jersey, mayor's spokeswoman Maria Pignataro said officials there were told the odor was due to a gas leak in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, just north of Greenwich Village.
"The smell was very strong. It was very scary," said Yolanda Van Gemd, an administrator at ASA, a business school near the Empire State Building that was evacuated as a precaution.
Utility officials with Consolidated Edison had no immediate comment.
In August, seven people were treated at hospitals after a gaseous smell in the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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lovely. all here in the newsroom like to joke that manhattan is going to blow up. lovely. thanks. sigh... i hope PSE&G/ Con Ed. hurries and figures out the problem and corrects it quickly. i'm not leaving the office unless they evacuate us or its 4pm when i can leave and go home and be with hubby. sigh.