A subway station in New York City flooded due to a burst pipe

A 120-year-old water pipe bursting under Times Square in New York has flooded one of the busiest subway stations in the city. This was reported by The New York Times.

According to its data, a half-meter pipe burst in the area of the subway station “Seventh Avenue” in Manhattan at 3 am Tuesday morning local time. As a result of the accident, more than 6.8 million liters of water entered the subway, the publication specifies. The movement of cars was temporarily suspended on lines 1, 2 and 3, which pass under the burst pipe. At the moment, there is no official information whether the traffic on these lines has been fully restored. According to the representative of the city’s transportation system Richard Davey, about 300 thousand passengers move on them during rush hour.

Employees of the Department of Environmental Protection found the place of the pipe bursting and blocked the flow of water within an hour. However, clips published on social networks show how the flow of water reached Times Square through ventilation grates.

Over the past three years, the authorities have spent $1.9 billion on modernization of cast-iron water pipes, which were carried out back in the XIX century. The service life of such pipes is on average 120 years.

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