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The 10 Best Reactions to Brooklyn's Mega-Sinkhole

The sinkhole that inspired a nation.

Photo courtesy of the FDNY.

The 25-foot-wide mega-sinkhole that exposed Sunset Park’s innards to the world on Tuesday morning, caused by a leaky water main, was one of the largest in the city’s rich history of sinkholes.

No one was sucked down into the abyss — or injured at all, that we know of. And thank heaven for that, because now we get to make fun of it.

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Here are our picks for the Internet’s 10 best reactions to the gaping wound that is now the the Fifth Avenue-64th Street intersection. The hipster jokes got a little annoying — mostly because the Sunset Park/Bay Ridge border is one of the least hipster areas in Brooklyn — but some were too good to pass up.

Enjoy.

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