Folk singer Art Garfunkel's Upper East Side apartment didn't catch fire after all; a burst water pipe caused a smoke condition at Garfunkel's 15th-floor apartment at 9 East 79th Street at Fifth Avenue. According to Garfunkel's spokesman, responding firefighters had to break down a wall in the icon's office, "damaging just 75 books in his 1,216 neatly curated literary collection." Oh, phew. Crisis (kind of) averted. [NYDN]
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