Midtown Comics Times Square building fire leaves no damage

7 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2010 AT 12:21 pm BY The Beat

201007290920 Midtown Comics Times Square building fire leaves no damage

According to store employees, yesterday’s electrical fire at the Maoz beneath Midtown Comics Times Square left no damage to the store except for a closure of 35 minutes. Great news.

It did make for some scary pictures, though.

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Alec says:

07/29/2010 at 12:41 pm

UGH, those poor firemen, having to wear all that gear in the summer heat!
Spike says:

07/29/2010 at 12:53 pm

Midtown isn’t Grand Central. Midtown is Times Square.
Hyman Rosen says:

07/29/2010 at 1:15 pm

There’s a Maoz under the 40th St. store on the west side (near Times Square), not the 45th St. store on the east side (near Grand Central).
Torsten Adair says:

07/29/2010 at 2:28 pm

The image above is the original Midtown Comics store, located at 200 W 40th Street, near Times Square. Google Maps confirms this.

As for “Midtown”…
Midtown North (18th) and Midtown South (14th) precincts do cover both stores. Community Board Five, Midtown, runs from Lexington Avenue to Eighth Avenue, and from 59th to 14th Streets.

If you consider skyscrapers to be the general definition of any business district, then Midtown would easily extend from Third Avenue to Eighth Avenue.
Hyman Rosen says:

07/29/2010 at 4:08 pm

“Midtown Comics” is the name of the store(s). But the headline says it’s the “Grand Central” building, which it is not.
jimmy palmiotti says:

07/29/2010 at 7:22 pm

thank god no one was hurt, especially the crew at midtown…a really nice bunch of guys running a truely amazing store.
Thor Parker says:

07/30/2010 at 11:14 am

Thanks for the concern everyone! We’re all ok and back to business as usual.