Asbestos Check at NYC Buildings Near Steam Pipe Blast Could Take Days

Forty-four of the nearly 50 buildings evacuated after an asbestos-lined, 86-year-old steam pipe exploded in the heart of the Flatiron District Thursday remain off limits as officials thoroughly assess the potential presence of asbestos. 

Twenty-eight of those buildings are in what officials called the “hot zone,” and 500 people have been displaced from nearly 250 units in those buildings, Mayor de Blasio said. He said each one of those buildings must be thoroughly assessed for the potential presence of asbestos, and residents won’t

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