Bridge fire, wall collapse snarl NYC traffic

Saturday, May 14, 2005

NEW YORK -- The collapse of a highway retaining wall in Manhattan and a fire at a railroad bridge in New Jersey created Friday-the-13th headaches for thousands of commuters. No one was injured in the two mishaps, which happened within hours on Thursday afternoon and evening. The 150-foot section of stone wall along the Henry Hudson Parkway in upper Manhattan gave way in two phases about five minutes apart Thursday afternoon, burying parked cars under dirt, trees and debris. A fast-moving fire, which broke out around 7:30 p.m., damaged a railroad bridge used by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit commuter trains to cross the Hackensack River in northern New Jersey.

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