Posted on 01/08/2007 6:45:42 AM PST by dogbyte12
YORK -- People all over a large part of New York City are smelling a gas, and it's not clear where it's coming from.
Numerous people have called 911 concerned about the odor. Con Edison, the Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating.
PATH service has been suspended into the 33rd Street station. Service is still going into the World Trade Center station.
Macy's department store has been evacuated, according to reports.
There also are unconfirmed reports of a similar smell across the river in New Jersey.
People between Midtown and Battery Park are reported to be smelling it. At NBC headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza, the odor is very strong. One person who works on the sixth floor at 30 Rockefeller Center says it's so strong people are leaving the building.
At one major office building at 37th and 7th, employees have been told that Con Edison is looking into a smell, and they should remain inside until they hear otherwise.
Mayor Bloomberg is expected to be asked about it at a 9:30 briefing with the media.
Perhaps the roof of Madison Square Garden is leaking. The odor from the Knicks would certainly be strong enough to be smelled in New Jersey.
I think you are onto something there.
Times like this I sure miss Rudy- Bloomberg is SUCH a snippy, patronizing fellow..
Turn on fans til the gas passes....
He's getting a little snippy. In other words, he knows nothing.
From what I'm seeing right now, he would be a disaster in the event of a real emergency.
Weird coincidence...
Dead birds in Austin, TX this morning...
http://kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=5904817
He is getting more and more snippy now. "THEN DON'T ASK IT!"
lol
We both noticed his "snippiness"
Now, he's just rude.
Somehow, someway, the NY Times will blame this on "global warming".
For example, this afternoon, the State Department could receive a video tape of a masked person stating that anyone who detected the gaseous odor would have been a fatality...and if the US doesn't stop meddling with the internal affairs of the Middle East, they would conduct multiple attacks on major US cities.
Yeah...I know....I should have been a fiction writer.
Hopefully that won't be us this evening.
Bingo!
He is speaking like a bad kindergarten teacher...what a jerk.
I live and work in Manhattan and I can smell the gas outside, but not in my office building. Very strange and unpleasant.
Yeah, but aren't the Knicks only like a half-game back from first place in their division?
"Hopefully that won't be us this evening."
Agreed.
Wow. He's rude, but he's no Rudy, is he?
I just got a NJ Transit alert. Rail servicee has been restored on the PATH at 33rd Street.
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