A 127-year-old water main under New York's Times Square gave way early Tuesday, flooding midtown streets and the city's busiest subway station.
The 20-inch pipe gave way under 40th Street and Seventh Avenue at 3 a.m., and quickly delivered a wet reminder of the perils of aging infrastructure beneath the city's crowded streets.
The excavation left a big hole and a muddy mess in one city intersection where workers dug with heavy equipment to get to the broken section of pipe. Only two local businesses were without left without water at the start of the work day, Aggarwala said. The cast iron pipes used as water mains in the city in the late 18th century, like the one that broke, were known for their durability, but even those have a typical lifespan of 120 years.
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