Two people were shot early Wednesday at heavily trafficked Astor Place in the East Village.
Cops said a man and a woman were shot at the square directly across the street from Cooper Union shortly after 8 a.m.
They were both in grave condition, police said.
Social media lit up with accounts of the incident. "West block of Cooper Union," wrote Evan Ross Kate. "Heard gunshots on the way to work. Two bodies strewn across the concrete taken to the hospital moments later."
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