From New York-
All eyes are on Paris’s fire-ravaged Notre-Dame, which President Emmanuel Macron of France has pledged to restore in five years. But a great cathedral in New York is also recovering from a conflagration that occurred on Palm Sunday — one day before the medieval French Notre-Dame was overcome by flames.
The
fire at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, a Gothic-style
landmark in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, was far
less catastrophic. It was confined to a windowless room in the crypt,
and no one was injured. The cause has been declared unknown.
Still, oil paintings and an 18th-century icon were destroyed and other
artworks damaged. And the plumes of smoke that rose up through heating
vents in the floor into the cathedral’s vast interior left soot
everywhere.
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