Thursday, December 10, 2020

2nd Avenue reopens to traffic; workers remove more of fire-ravaged 48 E. 7th St.

Second Avenue is open again to through traffic below St. Mark's Place... after the fire on Saturday morning, southbound traffic was rerouted across St. Mark's Place to Avenue A. 

For now, one lane ... as well as the floating parking lane and bike lane, are closed off for the work crews to use for access between Sixth Street and St. Mark's Place...
As for the southeast corner at Seventh Street...
Workers have mostly cleared out the rest of what was 48 E. Seventh St., where the six-alarm fire started ...
Looking north from Sixth Street, you almost can't even tell that Middle Collegiate Church suffered such massive damage...
There hasn't been any official word on the cause of the fire... or the fate of the remaining structure at the church.

Derek Berg got this dramatic shot yesterday of two fire marshals outside the church's north-facing wall...

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