Upper East Side Water Main Break Floods Street, Officials

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — An Upper East Side street was shut down Wednesday morning after being flooded by a water main break, a city Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson said.

A water pipe on East 62nd Street between Second and Third avenues busted around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, officials said. The city DEP responded to the scene and shut off the water in order to make repairs to the broken pipe, a department spokesman said.

About 127 people living on the street and seven nearby businesses were without water Wednesday morning due to the main break, a city DEP spokesman said.

The cause of the water main break and the extent of its damage to the street are still under investigation, a city DEP spokesman said. Two buildings on the block — 233 and 235 E. 62nd St. — had their basements flooded during the break, ABC7 reported.

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