NY blast may be linked to improper use of gas line

When the manager of Sushi Park, a restaurant in the East Village that was destroyed Thursday in an explosion and fire, alerted the building's landlord that afternoon to an odor of gas, it was not the first time that people who worked there had been concerned about how gas was flowing into the building. The restaurant's owner, Hyeonil Kim, 59, said in an interview Friday that he had wondered how the apartments upstairs in the five-story building at 121 Second Ave. had been getting hot water and gas for cooking.

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