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WATCH: Water gushes from Manhattan high-rise

No injuries were reported, but it was quite a spectacle on 42nd Street

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Water was seen pouring from the side of a Manhattan high-rise Thursday.

The FDNY said it got a call around 12:15 p.m. about a water leak from a building on Eighth Avenue and West 42nd Street. Video posted to the Citizen app shows what looked like a geyser erupting from the side of the building.

No injuries were immediately reported.

The water had stopped flowing by the time News 4 cameras got to the scene around 12:30 p.m.

The Department of Buildings says it was not called to the scene.

A spokesperson for the building’s developer tells NBC New York the DOB was already on scene as part of routine testing.

It turns out the scene was nothing more than a fire pump test being done and the area on the ground was cordoned off from people.

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