a blog by Peter Leonard
Apparently the rain we had last night was too much for the retaining wall on the 110th side of St. John the Divine. A huge portion of the stonework has collapsed, spewing boulders and dirt over the sidewalk.
Check out the pictures here.
The chainlink fence you see in the pictures has actually been up for about six months - they must have known the wall was structurally unsound for a while. Looking at the amount of material that hit the sidewalk, it's amazing nobody was hurt - the fence was barely able to contain everything that fell.