I saw black smoke rising from 34th Street this morning (I’m a couple blocks away) – a mass of fire trucks and black smoke billowing out of Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
As I have described before – we here in New York go on as usual. We go to work, we take the subway, we yell at cabbies who almost run us over … but then when you see black smoke rising and fire trucks massing – it is like no time has passed at all.<\/p>\n
At least that’s my experience.<\/p>\n
I’ve been feeling very jumpy anyway. I just want these damn conventions to be OVER with. It’s making me extremely nervous. Of course, the Republican National Convention is going to held AT Madison Square Garden – and the Democratic National Convention began today – so to have one of the first things I saw this morning on my arrival into the city be enormous black clouds billowing out of one of our main transit systems was quite alarming.<\/p>\n
I finally found a report of it. <\/a> Apparently it was due to “an underground transformer fire” – which – I have no idea what that means.<\/p>\n Unconfirmed reports said the transformer fire started with an explosion in an underground vault about 9:15 a.m., sending heavy black smoke up through subway gratings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m holding my breath until these damn conventions are over. I feel like a sitting duck here in Manhattan, with a big damn target on my back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw black smoke rising from 34th Street this morning (I’m a couple blocks away) – a mass of fire trucks and black smoke billowing out of Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. As I have described before – we … Continue reading