On August 10, 1983 an underground water main ruptured near the intersection of 38th Street and Seventh Avenue, flooding the subbasement of the Navarre Building, where Con Edison maintained a substation. As a consequence of the flood and a resultant fire, electrical power was lost to most of Manhattan's garment center (30th to 42nd Streets, between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue) for the next four days. Aside from the normal inconvenience and disruption caused by...
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