nytimes.com - As firefighters worked on Sunday afternoon to pull two bodies from the scene of an explosion that demolished three buildings in the East Village, a brother of one of the men reported missing in the blast urged his friends and relatives not to give up hope.
Neal Figueroa clambered partway up a police barrier, kissed a white rose he held and tossed it toward the rubble. “Nicholas, come home,” he shouted to his missing brother, 23-year-old Nicholas Figueroa. “We’re here for you! Don’t give up!”
Within hours, the Figueroas would learn that one of the bodies — found after three days of sifting through the wreckage at Second Avenue and Seventh Street — had been identified as their Nicholas, who had been on a date at Sushi Park, a restaurant at 121 Second Avenue.
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