For centuries, sailors have feared wandering into the Bermuda Triangle, the patch of the Atlantic Ocean that allegedly turns navigation systems haywire and swallows ships without a trace.
A few years ago, New York City drivers had similar fears about an equally terrifying place: Midtown.
Around 2008, drivers started complaining that within a 5-block radius of the Empire State Building, their cars would inexplicably die and refuse to start again.
“It was almost every day,” says Rony Yaakobovitch, manager of NYC Tire and Auto Care in Hell’s Kitchen. “We used to pick up those cars, take them a few blocks, and they would start.”
His best guess is that radio signals from the broadcast beacon on the tower were disabling alarm systems in cars and preventing them from starting.
About a year ago, the phenomenon disappeared as mysteriously as it began. Yet the broadcast beacon is still there. Hmmm . . .
Source: nypost.com
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