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 35 photos: Explosion destroys East Harlem buildings 35 photos: Explosion destroys East Harlem buildings Explosion destroys East Harlem buildings – Rubble is seen on Friday, March 14, two days after an explosion leveled two apartment buildings in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, injuring dozens and killing at least eight people. “This is a tragedy of the worse kind because there was no indication in time to save people,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Hide Caption 12 of 35 35 photos: Explosion destroys East Harlem buildings Explosion destroys East Harlem buildings – New York firefighters battle the fire near 116th Street and Park Avenue, once the heart of the city's large Puerto Rican community. The firefighters responding to a gas leak report barely missed the blast, Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said: "If we were here five minutes earlier, we may have had some fatalities among firefighters." Services on the New Haven and Harlem line and Hudson Line were also restored this afternoon. “I was standing in my room when I heard the explosion and the building shook at the same time," said Rosario Valderdo, who lives in the apartment building next door. At least 64 people were taken to hospital, two with life-threatening injuries, including a 15-year-old boy, authorities said. "We (had) probably about two-and-a-half floors of debris, so we have it now down to about one, one-and-a-half floors," Edward Kilduff, fire chief of department, told de Blasio during a tour of the site. On Thursday, Con Edison officials said the utility received a call reporting a gas leak around 9:13 a.m. Wednesday from a resident at one of the newer buildings on Park Avenue. Two Con Edison crews were dispatched at 9:15 a.m., officials said, noting they arrived just after the explosion occurred. The utility looked back at 10 years of checks and repairs on the gas main on the block and found no "historical condition," he said. Cassano said it will take a while to get everyone out, but canine search and rescue dogs on the scene have not detected the scent of any other victims at this point, which was a good sign. New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell currently has 11 patients, including a child under observation and Metropolitan Hospital has confirmed it has received 17 patients, including a child still under observation.  Six people were killed and at least 64 were injured when a suspected gas explosion tore through a building in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood Wednesday, collapsing at least part of the structure, authorities said. It was shaking, and I thought the Metro-North [train] had crashed.” 
 
 There were a total of 15 residential units in the two buildings, six in one and nine in the other. "If we were here five minutes earlier we may have had some fatalities among firefighters," he said.
– The death toll is climbing and hit seven this morning after authorities say a suspected gas leak blew up two apartment buildings in Harlem yesterday, just minutes after a customer called to report the smell of gas. At least 63 are wounded, and more deaths could come as two survivors suffered life-threatening injuries and another nine are still missing, CNN reports. As authorities continue to sift through the wreckage, the fire commissioner tell ABC News that rescue dogs have not detected the scent of any other victims. A Con Ed rep confirmed a customer call came in at 9:13am and crews responded two minutes later; they arrived just after the explosion, the New York Times reports. One man said the utility company told him to leave his building, and he was in the lobby when he heard the blast. Pianos flew through the air in a store on the ground floor of one of the buildings, WABC reports. "They flew off the ground and for me to get out I had to get around them," said a technician, who somehow escaped the building—which collapsed into a pile of rubble before the Fire Department arrived around 9:33am—with just scratches. Elsewhere, people were trapped in cars encased by debris. "It felt like an earthquake had rattled my whole building," said a man nearby. "There were glass shards everywhere on the ground, and all the stores had their windows blown out." Along with the piano store, the two buildings comprised 15 apartments and one church, the Times notes.