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National News

Still-Displaced Residents Seek Aid and Answers After Pipe Blast

A passerby walks on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, as construction workers fix damage caused by an underground steam pipe explosion, July 22, 2018. Three days since the pipe burst, spewing asbestos-laced muck across several blocks, many residents were still barred from their homes on Sunday, coping not only with sudden homelessness, but fear about what the exposure could do to their health. (Yana Paskova/The New York Times)