Update: Water Main Break on Court Street

Update 11:02 p.m. The confirms the street collapse and reports several city agencies will meet together tomorrow at 9 a.m. to discuss the repairs. Court Street is currently open with one lane of traffic between President Street and 2nd Place but only until 7 a.m. tomorrow.

"The street will be closed at that time due to work that will be conducted [by] Con Edison, a private contractor and National Grid," said a release from the precinct.

"Once these entities have completed their work several city agencies will coordinate the resurfacing of the roadway and the sidewalk. It is unknown how long this work will take to complete," read the release.

Update 4:20 p.m.: The DEP was on location at Court Street this afternoon investigating a street cave-in, said spokesperson Mercedes Padilla. After concluding there was no water main leak, the DEP is now investigating whether the sewer system may have caused the street to cave-in.

Only the CVS water service line broke, said Padilla.

"There was no water main break in the city's main water system," she said.

The street cave-in "had nothing to do with the broken gas main and water service break," she said.

Update 4 p.m.: Court Street is closed from President Street to Hamilton Avenue.

Update 2:18 p.m.: Mercedes Padilla, a spokesperson for the city's Department of Environmental Protection, said the cause of the water main break is under investigation, but that apparently when National Grid was doing work on the gas main leak (see below), they hit the service line for CVS, which is a private and not city maintained water line. National Grid is fixing the service line for CVS, she said, and no city water mains have been turned off. 

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Court Street between 1st and 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens is closed off due to a water main break, holding up traffic for blocks. 

Water is gushing under the surface of the street, and three pumps are loudly doing their job moving water from under the road and into sewer drains.

According to John Heyer, Funeral Director at , a gas main broke last night, filling the air with a putrid smell. Approximately 15 fire trucks showed up, he said. 

A fire department spokesperson said firefighters responded to a call about a gas smell in the air at 5:55 p.m. last night. The fire department then notified National Grid of the issue.

The gas was shut off at 100 1st Place, the building Heyer's family owns, and is still off now, which means no heat in the building. 

, located next door at 395 Court St., did not have their gas shut off, but the basement of the building was totally flooded.

"We had to close for a couple hours last night," said Manager Paul Shri. "But we are fine here."

More details coming soon.