Thursday On The Record
Call Box, BoCoCa. Photo by James Wolberg. Events: Today in Brooklyn Fire In The Hole! Explosion Closes Clinton Ave The Morning News Happy Hour of Power: Jay Bakker’s Revolution Living Room Redux: A Furniture Sale at Rico Best Places for Kids’ Birthday Parties? Restaurant Review: DuMont, Finally
Seconded. gag!
Oh, please, don’t call it “BoCoCa”.
Re: the Clinton Ave fire.. I live nearby and one night two weeks ago, I was awoken by an extremely loud buzzing sound from the street. I checked outside and it was deafening and seemed to extend over the the whole area to the north east corner of AY. I called 911, which transferred the call to the Fire Department. They came out and sure enough, 2 minutes before the truck pulled up, the sound stopped. They took it seriously though and thought that there could be a transformer issue and checked various manholes in the area and then went into my basement to see if there was any buildup of Carbon Monoxide (associated with electrical fires) or heat and there was neither. There was clearly something wrong though and I wonder what. It is a little scary after what Astoria went through this summer and our aging electrical grid infrastructure.