Midtown Frozen Zone Businesses Reopen After 17-Day Closure as 42nd Street Building Is Stabilized
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 30
Midtown Frozen Zone Businesses Reopen After 17-Day Closure as 42nd Street Building Is Stabilized
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 30
Summary
July 24 brought the all-clear for the last Midtown businesses trapped in the "Frozen Zone" after the unstable 235 East 42nd Street building was stabilized.
Nearly three weeks of closures on 43rd Street between Second and Third Avenues followed the July 7 emergency, with the city gradually shrinking the restricted area as conditions improved.
Restaurants were hit especially hard: one threw out 120 pounds of bluefin tuna, 15 trays of sea urchin and 13 pounds of black throat sea perch during the shutdown.
Hotels, a trade school and Japanese restaurants in the zone are reopening with piled-up bills and furloughed workers, still trying to recover from the disruption.