Saturday, 28 March 2015

Extent of Losses Begins to Come Into Focus a Day After an East Village Explosion

nytimes.com - On a wall of his rented room in Queens, Moises Ismael Locón Yac has paid tribute to the city where he has lived for seven of his 27 years: a poster of the Empire State Building and a framed cover from The New Yorker — a drawing of a cat looking out an apartment window at the cityscape.

Now the room is decorated with votive candles that his cousin lit after Mr. Locón, a Guatemalan immigrant, vanished during the fire that engulfed part of a block in the East Village where he works as a busboy.

“I have a strong pain in my heart because I haven’t seen him in a day,” the cousin, Pablo Yac, said in an interview on Friday evening.

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