NYPost – A fire on a tourist-friendly New York City pier that sent a huge cloud of smoke billowing above the Manhattan skyline was doused without any injuries on Saturday, fire officials said.

Flames enveloped a 100-foot stretch of Pier 17 at South Street Seaport, which was teeming with several hundred people when the fire broke out about 4 p.m. Officials for the Fire Department of New York said the blaze was burning beneath the pier on the East River.

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