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Building Collapse Closes Streets in Lower Manhattan

Thursday, April 30, 2009

By Matthew Schuerman : Editor, WNYC

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There's a street closure in lower Manhattan as emergency personnel clears the site of this morning's three-alarm building collapse.

A five-story building at 69 Reade Street has suffered a partial collapse of the front of the building. A car was crushed by debris but no injuries are reported.

Reade Street is closed to traffic between Broadway and Church Street. All downtown Broadway bus service in the area is being re-routed around the site.

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    Matthew Schuerman, Editor, WNYC

    Matthew Schuerman joined WNYC in December 2007 as the transportation and economic development reporter. He covered repeated financial crises at the MTA, the most severe transit cuts in decades, as well as the impact of the recession on the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn and the World Trade Center redevelopment in Lower Manhattan. Since 2010, Schuerman has been an editor in the WNYC newsroom. In addition, he has recently reported a number of Sandy-related stories.

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