Investigation continues into deadly Brooklyn tenement fire Todd Maisel12 hours ago3 min read Dermot Shea was sworn in as the 44th NYPD Commissioner at a ceremony at Police Plaza this morning. (Photo by Todd Maisel) One man is dead and eight other residents were injured when an early morning fire swept through a Flatbush, Brooklyn […]
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Schenectady building declared ‘dangerous’ for falling bricks
Deterioration has prompted closure of the sidewalk along Erie BoulevardPete DeMola | November 25, 2019 SCHENECTADY — A prominent downtown building has been deemed dangerous by the city after bricks recently became dislodged and rained down onto the pavement below. The deterioration has prompted closure of the sidewalk along Erie Boulevard and increased city scrutiny of the […]
Read more...FDNY Firefighters Injured in Bronx Building Blaze
Twelve FDNY units responded to the fire that broke out on the sixth floor of a seven-story Bronx building and also injured two residents, one seriously. MICHAEL SHERIDAN NOVEMBER 4, 2019 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Four people, including two firefighters, were injured in a blaze in the Bronx early Monday. A call came in just […]
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Fights Break Out Between Tenants, NYPD Outside Apartment Fire
This post was updated at noon on Sept. 4, 2019. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There was chaos in the Bronx Tuesday night. As firefighters worked to stop a building from burning, fights broke out between frantic residents and police. Nobody was seriously injured in the apartment fire, but two tenants are now under arrest. Authorities tell […]
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How Safe Are Fire Escapes in NY
New Yorkers often treat these archaic means of egress as their own private balcony, but should they? By Jeremiah Budin Sep 18, 2018, 11:34am EDTSHARE Max Touhey New York City is full of peculiar phenomena—rickety fire escapes; 100-year-old subway tunnels; air conditionerspropped perilously into window frames—that can strike fear into the heart of even the […]
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5 Things to know about Fire Escape NY
One of the most memorable appearances of an NYC fire escape was in West Side Story. The movie West Side Story is a riff on Romeo and Juliet set in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York’s Upper West Side in the 1950s, so it fits that the star-crossed lovers court each other not from a balcony, but a New York fire escape. […]
Read more...Woman Critical after fire escape fall
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Read more...Woman sues over husband’s death from falling fire escape
By Priscilla DeGregory March 19, 2019 | 5:35pm | Updated Enlarge Image Richard MarchhartSupplied A widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of a Soho building where a metal fire escape step fell seven stories striking her husband in the head and killing him. Andrea Marchhart, 57, filed the suit this week, just over a year after her husband, Richard […]
Read more...Brooklyn Fire Spurs Tenant Pleas To Fix Faulty Heat
A fire at 82 Rockaway Parkway left three people wounded over the weekend and tenants say dangerous building conditions are to blame. BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN — Three people were hurt when a fire erupted in a crumbling Brownsville apartment complex last weekend and now tenants are demanding the landlord fix building problems they say put their […]
Read more...Burned Thurston Road building a total loss
December 10, 2018 07:07 PM Fire destroyed an apartment building at 440 Thurston Road on Monday, leaving the building a total loss that had to be demolished. Fire ripped through the old building that housed 28 apartments. Only nine apartments were rented. The fire started around 8:30 a.m. waking people out of their sleep and […]
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