A building on East 62nd Street that reportedly held a doctor's office and a beauty salon collapsed earlier this morning, sending black smoke into the air. Details are sketchy, but witnesses report a "deafening boom," and one special witness adds:
TV host Larry King, who had been in his hotel room nearby, described the explosion to CNN as sounding like a bomb and feeling like an earthquake. "I've never heard a sound like that,'' King said.Neighborhood tipsters, what are you seeing?
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