East Village Explosion Aftermath: 25 Injured, Third Building Demolished

A massive explosion in a building on 2nd Avenue and 7th Street has destroyed Sushi Park, the cheap Japanese restaurant always offering half-price sushi deals. It's still not certain what caused it, but the Daily News is now 

Someone possibly "inappropriately accessed" a gas line, causing an explosion and fire that destroyed a row of East Village tenements, injuring 22 people, four of them critically, and leaving at least two people unaccounted for, Mayor Bill de Blasio

There are still dozens of firefighters on the scene of the East Village explosion that affected four buildings along Second Avenue near 7th Street. Twenty-five people, including five "uniformed personnel," have suffered injuries; four people are

Investigators are probing whether a contractor improperly accessed a gas line in a basement below a restaurant, setting off a fiery explosion that leveled three buildings, injured about two dozen people and left at least two missing in the East Village

Thursday's East Village building explosion has left 19 people injured, with four people in critical condition, the New York Times reports. At least two people have been declared missing since the blaze was put out and the