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DEVELOPING STORY: There is a massive FDNY presence on New York City’s Roosevelt Island after residents reported multiple explosions, power outages and buildings shaking. Watch video from the scene below.
Todd Starnes ^ | January 2, 2024 | SMG News Wire

Posted on 01/02/2024 6:58:02 AM PST by Red Badger

DEVELOPING STORY: There is a massive FDNY presence on New York City’s Roosevelt Island after residents reported multiple explosions, power outages and buildings shaking. Watch video from the scene below.

VIDEO AT LINK...........

The Daily Mail reports that firefighters are also dealing with a number of manhole fires. That would lead investigators to suspect there was some sort of massive electrical issue.

Calls were received just before 6 a.m. for the reports at 580 Main St., which is just south of Roosevelt Island Bridge & Tram.

The New York City Emergency Management Department posted an alert on X right before 7:30 a.m., warning of road closures, mass transit disruptions and emergency personnel near Roosevelt Island.

Several tweets across the social media platform “X” reported people saying they were awoken by a loud noise, and that they felt their buildings shaking, Fox 5 in NYC reports.

“At 5:45 in the morning, we woke with what sounded like a large bang, and the whole building sort of moved in response to the bang,” Jennifer Cohen, who lives on Roosevelt Island, told WNYC. “I’ve never been through an earthquake, but it didn’t really feel like an earthquake.”

There are no reports of injuries.

NBC News reports one building was said to be shaking.


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To: Red Badger

leftover bottle rockets?


41 posted on 01/02/2024 8:41:21 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: Honest Nigerian

People forget that Sewer gas is explosive!..............


42 posted on 01/02/2024 8:43:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Indeed


43 posted on 01/02/2024 8:46:30 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

I just got a text from her. They’re saying it was a 1.7 magnitude earthquake


44 posted on 01/02/2024 8:59:03 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

Wow! That is astounding!

In NYC!.................


45 posted on 01/02/2024 9:02:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

You can hear them now....

climate change....Climate change....Climate Change....CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!


46 posted on 01/02/2024 9:03:55 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Red Badger

https://rooseveltislanddaily.news/2019/04/24/new-yorks-ghost-tunnel/#

Conclusion
Beneath the 63rd Street station, it will part ways with the subway system, turning south toward Grand Central.

The original 63rd Street tunnel and 2nd Avenue Subway project partially completed, just under a century after being imagined, Q trains now run along the underutilized tracks of the only line that passes under Central Park before heading up the East Side.

STARLIT-Lots here in this article.........One has to ask...what was really being stored in this tunnel and hidden for many years? And now back in the news. And now fires and electrical outages...is this tunnel connected to the recent news?


47 posted on 01/02/2024 9:05:50 AM PST by STARLIT (`There are two moments in life..those you miss and those you seize)
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To: Red Badger

Earthquake!
1.7 epicenter in Queens!


48 posted on 01/02/2024 9:31:43 AM PST by Species8472 (Don't celebrate sin!)
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To: Red Badger

Earthquake!
1.7 epicenter in Queens!


49 posted on 01/02/2024 9:31:44 AM PST by Species8472 (Don't celebrate sin!)
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To: Fido969

I read there was a car bomb.


50 posted on 01/02/2024 9:36:14 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: Species8472

Yes, see previous post #44!..................


51 posted on 01/02/2024 9:37:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: roving
I read there was a car bomb.

The official denials that this was a terrorist attack should already be out by now. I haven't seen any.

Maybe it really was an electric transformer breakdown.

52 posted on 01/02/2024 11:33:52 AM PST by flamberge (Trust no politician. Trust no government official.)
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To: Red Badger

https://abc7ny.com/fdny-roosevelt-island-explosions-power-outages/14258998/


53 posted on 01/02/2024 4:42:17 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Red Badger

“Fiery But Mostly Peaceful explosions”.


54 posted on 01/02/2024 9:17:45 PM PST by Redcitizen
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Dutchsinse:

1/02/2024 — New York City , Washington DC earthquakes, booms and rumbles - East Coast moving

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yB10A5tcGkQ


55 posted on 01/02/2024 10:04:58 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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