NEW YORK: New Yorkers who have endured the Sept. 11 attacks and the devastating superstorm of 2012 were generally unperturbed by a Saturday night blast in Manhattan that injured 29 people. Alan Merson , 68, a salesman heading from his home on the Upper West Side to work in New Jersey, said he was in the West Village on Saturday night when he heard about the explosion. "When you are in New York you just expect things like this to happen. "Police immediately cordoned off large swaths of the area, traffic was cut off and the subway was disrupted. Do we just stop working and being strong New Yorkers?

Source: Economic Times September 18, 2016 16:52 UTC