A water main in Times Square burst early this morning and sent 1.8 million gallons of water flooding into the New York City subway system and nearby streets, pausing services that impacted approximately 300,000 customers and led to road closures, officials said at a news conference. Aggravation, thy name is New York: the fetid fruits of a water main break in New York’s Times Square ... [+] on Tuesday, August 29. The water main in question is over 120 years old finally gave out in Times Square around 3 a.m. EDT Tuesday, pausing and altering services along the 1, 2 and 3 line trains for nearly six hours and closing the intersection of 40th Street and Seventh Avenue as personnel worked to pump water from the subway’s tracks and search for the broken portion of the pipe. Richard Davey, the president of NYC Transit, approximates that 300,000 customers use the 1,2 and 3 train lines on a typical rush hour morning. Davey says most of the water (a million gallons) was pumped out by the transit system’s normal pump rooms, while mobile pumps were used to remove up to 800,000 more gallons of water, and 150 subway employees turned out to assist with the cleanup.

Source: Forbes August 30, 2023 17:17 UTC