article_snippet: Firefighters kept blasting water at pockets of flames among the rubble on Friday as it continued to smoulder .
article_snippet: When the utility workers were at the building that exploded at 121 Second Avenue on Thursday in August, the utility workers found 'multiple leaks' in hoses that were connected to the gas line, the New York Times reported.
article_snippet: The owner of Sushi Park, the restaurant where explosion occurred, told the New York Times  that utility workers determined that gas intended for his restaurant was being siphoned off illegally for use in newly-renovated apartments upstairs.
article_snippet: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday that the blast was possibly tied to someone 'inappropriately' tapping into a gas line.
article_snippet: The Manhattan district attorney's office and the NYC Department of Investigation are looking into whether gas and plumbing work being done privately in one building led to the blast.
article_snippet: The Manhattan district attorney's office and the NYC Department of Investigation Investigation are looking into the blast .
article_snippet: A gas leak caused an explosion that destroyed two buildings in East Harlem on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 20.
article_snippet: An explosion and fire inside a Chinatown beauty salon apparently was caused by the deployment of two dozen bug bombs.
article_snippet: the blast blew out a wall and caused the partial collapse of one building led to the explosion.
article_snippet: A manhole explosion in Brooklyn killed one utility worker and injured another.
article_snippet: An apparent gas explosion at a 20-unit Harlem apartment building injured more than 20 people, including a firefighter.
article_snippet: July 18, 2007: An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a 40-story geyser of steam, mud and flying rubble.
article_snippet: Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who died from severe wounds after his $6.4 million Manhattan town house blew up, was suspected of causing A manhole explosion in Brooklyn by tampering with a gas line, and his death was ruled a suicide.
article_snippet: A steam pipe near the entrance to New York University's main library burst, spewing debris and traces of asbestos onto dozens of people and several cars and buildings in the area.
article_snippet: As a precaution, city officials set up a decontamination site for more than 55 people who had been exposed to A steam pipe near the entrance to New York University's main library burst, spewing debris and traces of asbestos onto dozens of people and several cars and buildings in the area.
article_snippet: A huge steam explosion at the city's oldest power plant killed a utility employee and injured six other people.
article_snippet: A huge steam explosion at the city's oldest power plant shook the neighborhood around the Con Edison utility's 91-year-old Waterside Station in midtown Manhattan.
article_snippet: Two people were killed and 30 were injured in the blast, which was caused by a utility worker's backhoe.
article_snippet: An explosion ripped open a Manhattan street in the exclusive Gramercy Park neighborhood, spewing a geyser of steam and asbestos 12 stories high for four hours.
article_snippet: A four-story apartment building apparently rocked by a gas explosion collapsed in northern Manhattan, killing one person and injuring seven others.
highlights_snippet: 'safe'
  Blast occurred Thursday at Sushi Park restaurant at 121 Second Avenue .
  