{"id":313200,"date":"2026-08-04T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313200\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:56:37","slug":"ev-grieve-water-main-break-floods-section-of-14th-street-and-1st-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313200\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Water main break floods section of 14th Street and 1st Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0<\/p>\n

A water main erupted late this afternoon at First Avenue and 14th Street, flooding the intersection and sending water into nearby basements as DEP crews worked to isolate the break.<\/p>\n

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The break prompted a temporary shutdown of water service to properties on the east side of First Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street. (And not the first time<\/a> there’s been a water break here.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

EVG spoke on the scene earlier with Marty Fatooh, Manhattan Borough Commissioner for the NYC Department of Environmental Protection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We were able to halt the leak,” Fatooh said. “As of now, we have a shutdown to the city water main in order to address the leak, which is going to affect consumers on First Avenue between East 13th Street and East 14th Street.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fatooh said DEP expects water service to be restored within the next few hours.<\/p>\n

The cause of the break remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

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“We’ve got old pipes. Some of these water mains go back over 100 years,” he said. “We’re dealing with age-old infrastructure, but we get it fixed.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the dramatic scene, Fatooh said there weren’t any major impacts to subway service, though some buses were redirected.<\/p>\n

“There was no water that came in on the tracks,” he said. “The L train is running normally.”<\/p>\n

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Crews will remain on-site to repair the broken water main and the roadway after service is restored.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We’ll update this post as more information becomes available. (Update: The city activated its “Water on the Go” fountains on the southeast side of 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A.)<\/p>\n

Here’s an aerial view via NBC 4…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0 A water main erupted late this afternoon at First Avenue and 14th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-313200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}