The rupture highlighted the frail state of the city’s aging infrastructure.
A water main break on Thursday temporarily snarled traffic on the George Washington Bridge and submerged streets in the Bronx.Credit.WABC-TV
Jan. 7, 2021
Beneath New York’s vast streetscape is an underground labyrinth of water mains that are essential to the city’s day-to-day existence. But sometimes those pipes can burst without warning and wreak havoc.
Many are decades old, and not aging well.
On Thursday, one particularly senescent water main dating to before World War I ruptured, flooding a major highway in the Bronx, trapping drivers in their cars, snarling traffic on the George Washington Bridge and submerging the surrounding streets.
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