On March 12 , 2014 at 9:00 EDT , a large explosion and fire at 1644 – 1646 Park Avenue killed eight people and injured more than 70 . The '' New York Post '' listed one part of the neighborhood – the block of Lexington Avenue between East 123rd and 124th Streets – as one of " the most dangerous blocks in the city " because police crime statistics for 2015 showed that 19 assaults had taken place there , more than for any other city block . The '' Post '' also reported that there were , according to the Harlem Neighborhood Block Association , " 22 drug-treatment programs , four homeless-services providers and four transitional-living facilities " in East Harlem
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2014 East Harlem gas explosion
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