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When Manhattan's Street Swallowed a Tow Truck: The Lexington Blast
When Manhattan's Street Swallowed a Tow Truck: The Lexington Blast
A city street opened without warning on July 18, 2007, propelling a tow truck twelve feet into the air and sending a column of steam higher than the Chrysler Building-yet no explosion sound preceded it. What failed eighty-three feet underground in Midtown Manhattan, and why did a pipe installed in 1924 rupture just ten feet from a seam crews had repaired six hours earlier?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the human toll, and the conflicting engineering conclusions that followed the Lexington Avenue steam…
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