Via @pablo_escolar comes word that passersby spotted smoke on the ledge/balcony above La Palapa on St. Mark's Place, just west of First Avenue. The FDNY were quickly on the scene and seemed to have the situation under control, he reported. More to come, if necessary...
All is well. Restaurant is open as usual... the smoke/flames/raging inferno had nothing to do with La Palapa, we're told...
Updated:
DNAinfo has a report too...Apparently some garbage on the balcony somehow caught fire... "It was no big deal," Judy Maeda, the restaurant's maître d’, told DNA. "It was just smoke, no flames."
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A few more photos from the morning via @pablo_escolar
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From my view above, a couple buildings away, it appeared that the jackasses who live in the apartment above La Palapa were trying to build a barbeque and lost control of it.
It's comforting that FDNY arrived quickly with lots of trucks. But not so comforting that no one was arrested. The wanna-be s'mores toasters have apparently given up on the balcony today.
Nice shot of the firemen's shadows in that last pic.....
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