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A fire sent smoke billowing from the top of a luxury 44-story building in the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s West Side, according to the New York City Fire Department.
All three floors of the home were involved in the fire. A deputy coroner waits outside the scene of a fatal house fire in the first block of Columbia Avenue in York while the house is secured by ...
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It was the third-worst residential fire in the United States in four decades, [7] and the deadliest fire in New York City since the Happy Land nightclub fire, which occurred nearby in 1990. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Bronx fire was also the second major residential fire in the Northeastern United States within a one-week period, occurring four days after ...
New York City officials determined shortly afterwards that the fire had started as a result of a child playing with stove knobs. [ 10 ] In response to the fire, the New York City Council passed several fire safety resolutions focused on self-closing doors, improved fire alarms, and fire-safety awareness for families with children.
The Happy Land fire was an act of arson that killed 87 people on March 25, 1990, in the Bronx in New York City, United States. The 87 victims were trapped in the unlicensed Happy Land social club , located at 1959 Southern Boulevard in the West Farms section of the Bronx.
Fire victims compete to find new homes as real estate market rages in Pacific Palisades, Altadena Jack Flemming, Andrew Khouri, Daniel Miller, Liam Dillon January 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Louis Heaton Pink Houses or Pink Houses are a housing project in New York City that were established in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1959. It consists of 22 eight-storey buildings with 1,500 apartment units over a 31.1-acre expanse, bordered by Crescent Street, Linden Boulevard, Elderts Lane and Stanley Avenue.