Black Friday (1951)

Black Friday (1951)

September 21, 1951 is known in Brighton, New York as Black Friday. On this day, a natural gas explosion took place within the Meadowbrook, Roselawn, and Bel Air neighborhoods, causing several homes to be leveled or damaged, and two people killed.

What led up to the explosions

Construction work being done on the Chateau Restaurant at Twelve Corners, in the heart of Brighton, had ended for the night. The workmen had lit flares and were going home when the flares set off an explosion in an underground natural gas vault that held regulators. The explosion sent a manhole cover flying into the air, and as it fell, it struck the regulator mechanism, forcing it into the "on" position.


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