My colleague Adriane Quinlan attended Mayor Bloomberg's press conference:
Following an earthquake on Tuesday, stones fell off the top of the Washington National Cathedral.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press
He was joined by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly; the buildings commissioner, Robert Limandri; and the transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan.
"We live in a part of the country that has very few earthquakes, and certainly very few that are of a measurable latitude," the mayor said, "but as today's event showed the earth is constantly moving."
It stopped flights from leaving LaGuardia and Kennedy International Airports and trains from pulling out of Pennsylvania Station. All had reopened by the time the mayor appeared before reporters in the Governor's Room at City Hall, and the mayor seemed to suggest a grin-and-bear-it approach to dealing with the inconvenience the earthquake might have caused New Yorkers: "If you remember the old fire drills when you were a kid," he said, grinning, "you would get outside. There was a kind of camaraderie."
From my colleague Michael M. Grynbaum, who covers transportation in New York:
In the end, there were barely any earthquake-related disruptions to New York City area mass transit. The subways, buses and commuter railroads suffered no delays or damage. Nearly all bridges and tunnels stayed open, with the exception of the Holland Tunnel, which was closed for about 30 minutes before a team of inspectors gave the all-clear.
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