Early on Tuesday, a 127-year-old water main beneath New York’s Times Square collapsed, flooding the popular Times Square subway station and midtown streets.
Rohit Aggarwala, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection in New York City, said that the 20-inch (half-meter) water main gave way under 40th Street and Seventh Avenue at 3 a.m.
According to Aggarwala, it took DEP staff nearly an hour to identify the leak’s source and turn off the water.
The excavation created “a big hole at the intersection of 40th Street and Seventh Avenue,” he claimed. By rush hour, the nearby streets were open, but that intersection was still restricted to automobile traffic. However, due to the broken pipe, many parts of Manhattan’s 1, 2, and 3 lines were without subway service.
According to Aggarwala, at the beginning of the workday, it looked like only two local companies were still without water.
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