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Fire Guts Fulton Street Brownstone
According to the tipster who took this photo, the brownstone building at 1108 Fulton Street, formerly home to the Senegalese restaurant and jazz joint Yelélé and more recently the offices of the Weeksville Heritage Center, was gutted by a two-alarm fire early yesterday morning. “By the time I got over there the fire was out and FDNY was checking for extension,” he writes. “About 30 fire trucks, ambulances, etc. The building is gutted. Next-door neighbor is Goodwill – they looked like they did ok, besides the end of their awning.” Anyone witness the fire in full blaze? GMAP
04/26/2010 9:00 AM
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Fire on 23rd Street
At around 2:30 pm on Wednesday a raging fire broke out in the abandoned building on the corner of 23rd St and 5th Avenue in Greenwood Heights. After about twenty minutes of spewing out giant flames from its top the fire was extinguished. About four firemen had to use a chainsaw and axe to bust down the boarded doors before being able to get into the building. The whole area was surrounded with police, firemen and onlookers. GMAP
04/08/2010 9:00 AM
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Fire on Myrtle
Apparently there was a pretty serious fire at this building at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Adelphi Street in Fort Greene over the weekend. Anyone know any details?
04/05/2010 9:30 AM
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Fire at 149 South 4th Street
A reader sent in this photo of a big fire shortly after midnight at 149 South 4th Street in Williamsburg. No word on whether anyone was badly hurt or killed, but the tipster noted that FDNY was quick to arrive on the scene. You can see another photo of the scene on the ground if you click through below. Did anyone else witness this? GMAP (more…)
01/26/2010 9:29 AM
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Closing Bell: Fire in Park Slope
A reader sent in this photo of the aftermath of last night’s fire at 392 3rd Street. You can see a good photo of the original building from this post from a year ago announcing plans for it to be turned into an eight-unit condo. WCBS had a story about the fire this morning, reporting that two people were injured.
12/23/2009 4:00 PM
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BREAKING: Fire on Smith and Warren
We’ve received several tips in the last few minutes that a large fire had broken out at the corner of Smith and Warren Streets. Judging by this photo, it appears the small yellow building one in from the corner at 178 Smith Street. According to one tipster, the area “reeks of smoke.”
Photo by Sarah Berger
Update: Three more shots of the blaze on the jump… (more…)
11/24/2009 9:43 AM
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Fire Guts 80 1/2 Fourth Avenue
Remember that fire we alerted you to yesterday? Well, no one sent in any photos so we went by at the end of the day to survey the damage. According to a nearby business owner, the fire started in the morning and attracted several fire trucks. Based upon what we could see, the upper two floors were gutted. No word on whether anyone was injured. GMAP
09/15/2009 9:30 AM
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Big Fire on 4th Ave Between Bergen & St. Marks
Just got a tip from a reader that there’s a big fire under way on 4th Avenue between Bergen and St. Marks. Anyone in the area with a camera? Please send photos.
09/14/2009 12:16 PM
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Court Street Cinema Fire, Again
The UA Cinema on Court Street in Brooklyn Heights had a small fire incident on Saturday that left none injured. According to the Brooklyn Heights Blog, a popcorn machine was the cause of the fire, but the sprinkler system kept it from getting out of control. The incident did fill the theater with smoke and force everyone in the theater to evacuate. Almost the exact same sequence of events occurred last month—a small fire caused by a faulty popcorn machine. Perhaps it’s time for UA Cinema to invest in some new popcorn machines? GMAP
Fire in a Crowded Theater: the Sequel [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Fire in a Crowded Theater [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Popcorn Machine Catches Fire [A Brooklyn Life]
Photo by Marc Hermann/BHB
09/14/2009 9:00 AM
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Fires Break Out in Cobble Hill
We received a tip last night at 7:29 p.m. that Smith Street was shut down with fire trucks outside of Brooklyn Industries at Atlantic Avenue. Our tipster said there was no visible smoke, but a plethora of firemen and trucks. No one seems to have an image yet, but we learned that another fire broke out this morning around 6:45 a.m. (this is an estimate) at Smith and Warren, at the new townhouses. Flickr user happyrobot captured the fire and uploaded the image to our Flickr pool. These are obviously two unrelated incidents, but does anyone out there in cyberspace know more about either fire? Let us know in the comments section.
Photo by Rich at happyrobot.net, Brownstoner Flickr pool
08/21/2009 10:00 AM
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Fire at 130 Lefferts Place
According to The Local, a fire broke out on the fourth floor of 130 Lefferts Place, an 89-unit residential building across the street from the ever-shady Lefferts Hotel, a little over an hour ago and spread to the fifth floor. We have a man on the scene now and it appears that everything’s under control. Still lots of fire trucks and firemen hanging around though!
08/12/2009 2:02 PM
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BREAKING: Fire on the Manhattan Bridge
You may want to avoid the Manhattan Bridge for the next few hours—according to a tipster, there’s a large truck fire on the Manhattan side. Update: According to Gothamist, it’s a tractor-trailer that caught on fire in the Brooklyn-bound lanes.
07/08/2009 11:47 AM
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Rosenwach Fire The Morning After
On the night of July 4, Williamsburg got its own pyrotechnics show, only this year it wasn’t over the East River—it was at the site of the Rosenwach Wood Tank Company on Wythe Avenue, where a two-alarm fire broke out at around 9 p.m. According to commenters on Gothamist, the blaze started on the company’s North 9th Street lot where the company constructs roof-top water tanks. According to two local blogs, a group of twenty-somethings (“white kids in the twenties,” according to 11211 or “hipster douchebags,” according to NYShitty) were setting off roman candles right next to the lot. In addition to stacks of wood, there was a large pile of sawdust which would have made quite a combo with a stray firework. The photo above shows how the site looked yesterday and the video on the jump shows some live action from the night-of.
Two-Alarm Fire On Wythe Avenue In Williamsburg [Gothamist]
Video: Williamsburg Fire [Flickr] GMAP (more…)
07/06/2009 9:00 AM
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