sometimes..
SOMETIMES..the New York Times does inform
in todays coverage of the “steam explosion” in NYC
the minute by minute updates
gave some interesting insight into the NYT
journalistic process..
i quote..
After the explosion this evening near Grand Central Terminal, a geyser continues to shoot steam, water and debris into the air in Midtown. At least one person was seriously injured but no deaths have been reported.
“A steam explosion on East 41 Street from Third and Lexington Avenue is not terrorist-related,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman.
6:55 p.m. | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a large law firm with offices at 425 Lexington Avenue, at East 43rd Street, was one of many companies to evacuate their workers.
“It sounded at first like thunder, but it just didn’t end. It was a really loud, deep, sustained explosion,” said Andrew T. Frankel, a partner at the firm, who works on the 23rd floor. “We all looked out the window and saw black smoke just billowing up 43rd Street. It was pretty frightening, more for the unknown than anything.
“Nobody waited for the evacuation warning. Everybody headed for the stairwell and headed out of the building. People were tense, but calm.”
“We did floor sweeps and there’s nobody left in the building except the emergency response team in the lobby,” said an operator who answered calls to employees at the firm.
Nicholas Skyles, an art director at The New York Times, was on the Grand Central end of the 42nd Street shuttle. “People went from standing still to turning and running as fast they could. People were screaming and running,” he said. “The police started ushering people westward. We were covered in brown dirt or debris — it was all over everyone’s faces. There was a pretty big panic.”
Mr. Skyles walked back to his office.
6:40 p.m. |Fire Department officials said that the explosion this evening near Grand Central Terminal appeared to be either a transformer or a manhole explosion and that they had issued four alarms.
Fire officials are reporting that one civilian was injured and taken to Weill Cornell Medical College at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; the severity of the injuries was unknown.
Service on the 42nd Street shuttle has also been disrupted, according to New York City Transit.
“There have been reports of a transformer or some other kind of an explosion near Grand Central,” said Michael S. Clendenin, the spokesman for Consolidated Edison.
The authorities have cleared the block of East 41st Street between Third and Lexington Avenues.
Errol Cockfield, a spokesman for the Empire State Development Corporation, said that smoke or steam was visible from the agency’s offices on the 37th floor of 633 Third Avenue, between 40th and 41st Streets.
“There has been a sustained thundering sound for 15 minutes and steam is billowing into the air,” Mr. Cockfield wrote in an e-mail message. “We can see it from our offices on the 37th floor at 633 Third Avenue. People are running helter-skelter.”
6:25 p.m. | Charles F. Seaton, a New York City Transit spokesman, said that all subway trains on the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 lines were bypassing Grand Central Terminal at the direction of the police.
Paula Forteau, a nanny, said she was at Third Avenue and 38th Street after a supermarket run when “I heard a loud noise, a rumbling noise. Everyone started running downtown. There was one loud noise, and then it just continued. I saw a cloud of white smoke.”
6:18 p.m. | Several office buildings were evacuated around 6 p.m. this evening following what appears to be a transformer explosion that sent thick black smoke billowing around the area, according to news agencies and eyewitnesses.
Police and fire units were sent to the scene.
Caryn Tutino, a news designer for The Times, was waiting for a bus outside the New York Public Library, at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street when the explosion occurred. “All of a sudden, we just heard this explosion and all these people came down running down 41st Street, and screaming,” she said. “It looked like it was coming from Grand Central. I looked down 41st Street and saw a huge black cloud of smoke.” Ms. Tutino said that the people seemed panicked and upset.
Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman..”whats new in Haiti..Paul?……”
Andrew T. Frankel..Partner..Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Nicholas Skyles, an art director at The New York Times,
Errol Cockfield, a spokesman for the Empire State Development Corporation
Caryn Tutino, a news designer for The Times
WHAT THE FUCK! IS A NEWS DESIGNER anyway?
thats creepy
so the art director got the nanny interview i bet..
if you are familiar with the controversy
surrounding the ATLANTIC YARDS PROJECT in Brooklyn
the “special relationship” of certain law firms and ‘development’ corporations
and the NYT role in hoodwinking the citizens of New York on the behalf
of predatory billionaires..then these tidbits will be all the more intriguing