Evacuation

Some East Villagers prepared to leave while others stocked up on food and alcohol.

A strip of East Harlem between East 100th Street to East 93rd Street from First Avenue to the East River falls in the city's mandatory evacuation zone.

New Yorkers flocked to supermarkets and hardware stores to stock up on food, water, batteries, flashlights and more on Friday morning.

Battery Park City is one of the most flood-prone neighborhoods in the city. Residents and business owners are taking precautions in advance of Hurricane Irene.

Six people were evacuated Thursday after a manhole fire on East 25th Street and Lexington Avenue generated high levels of carbon monoxide.

The 26th Precinct at 520 W. 126th St. was evacuated Thursday after cops found what appeared to be a grenade in a trash can.

Fourteen people fled their homes in the wake of a manhole fire on W. 161st Street near Riverside Drive.

A gas leak at 20 River Terrace was caused when a contractor hit a gas main, Con Edison said.

More than 100 people participated in a terror drill on Saturday in Battery Park City.

1,500 workers were evacuated from 2 Rector street Tuesday after a transformer fire filled the building with smoke.

A transformer fire caused unsafe levels of carbon monoxide at 700 Park Avenue Thursday night.

The bomb squad found an inert grenade inside an apartment on Norfolk Street but said it was non-threatening.

The U.N. Security Council and General Assembly were evacuated as a "precautionary measure."

Good friends, family and complete strangers have rallied for victims of a fire that killed two pets and left dozens homeless.

Vibrations from construction and the subway have compromised the unrenovated row house.