Monday, January 10, 2022
Scenes from the fire today at 47 Avenue A
[Updated] Fire destroys Essex Card Shop on Avenue A
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Souen is on the mend after late-September kitchen fire on 6th Street
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
[Updated] Report of a fire at 94 St. Mark's Place
Sunday, April 18, 2021
[Updated] Report of a trash fire outside Saifee Hardware
Monday, March 15, 2021
Report of a roof fire at 170 E. 2nd St.
Witnesses reported seeing "intense flames" coming from the roof.FDNY on the scene of the rooftop fire at Ave A @ 2nd @evgrieve pic.twitter.com/yfQaH35swV
— Alice Bodemyr-Dunaway (@alicedunaway) March 15, 2021
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Remembering Wendy Schonfeld
Even at 80, Schonfeld was a vibrant fixture in her East 5th St. building and a priceless mentor to former colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"She lived and breathed the arts," said Robert La Force, a neighbor for 29 years. "Even though she didn’t really go out the last couple of years, she was still a part of everything," said La Force. "She would stick her head out the window and talk to people."And...
Her home was crammed with artifacts from Mexico and elsewhere collected during a lifetime of devotion to the arts.
At the Met, Schonfeld was recalled for guiding younger colleagues to get their noses out of books and helping them communicate the grandeur of art to the general public.
"She had that wonderful New York way of setting things straight, with kindness," said Joanne Pillsbury, a curator at the Met. "She was a fountain of information about objects and ideas."According to the News (and as several readers pointed out), there was another fire in Schonfeld's apartment more than 10 years ago. She reportedly suffered permanent health problems from smoke inhalation.
Friday, March 5, 2021
Report of a fatal fire on 5th Street
According to @FDNYalerts, the fire broke out on the fourth floor of 335 E. Fifth St., a five-story building between First Avenue and Second Avenue. The report came in at 12:55 a.m., according to @FDNYalerts ... and was deemed under control by 1:24 a.m.
At 3:36 a.m., the Citizen app reported the following: "An official update from the FDNY has confirmed that an 80-year-old woman found inside the apartment was declared deceased after EMS transported her to a local hospital."Manhattan All Hands Box 0430, 337 E 5 ST, Multiple Dwelling 'A' Fire, 4TH FLR, Under Control
— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) March 5, 2021
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Report of a small fire inside the empty P.S. 64 building on 9th Street
Monday, December 14, 2020
The latest from the fire-damaged Middle Collegiate Church: the New York Liberty Bell survives
Over the weekend, workers started removing the church's east-facing (back) wall in order to stabilize the site, according to the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, senior minister at the Middle Collegiate Church. (Photo below via Steven)The Fire Marshall has concluded their investigation, but we do not yet have the official written report. What we've been told is: It has been confirmed that the fire originated in the building to our north and the cause was electrical in nature.
— Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD (@RevJacquiLewis) December 12, 2020
In some positive news, the steeple remains intact, which is where the New York Liberty Bell had hung in the belfry. The bell appears unharmed ...We will have more to say to our community and to the press once we see the official report. In the meantime, we offer prayers of thanksgiving that there were no fatalities.
— Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD (@RevJacquiLewis) December 12, 2020
As work continues to stabilize @middlechurch, our engineers have found that the church’s historic “New York Liberty Bell” was not damaged during last week’s devastating fire.
— NYC Buildings (@NYC_Buildings) December 12, 2020
DOB engineers remain on site to monitor & assess the stability of the structure. pic.twitter.com/v5BPwuIUGl
Some history of the bell via the Times:Our bell will ring again, and our love is still ringing. pic.twitter.com/BLofkL4HmT
— Middle Church (@middlechurch) December 13, 2020
It is about 25 years older than the cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, according to a 1959 New York Times article.Cast in Amsterdam in 1729, the bell was rung in 1735 to celebrate freedom of the press after John Peter Zenger, a German journalist, was acquitted of charges of seditious libel. He had published criticism of British tax collectors, according to the Times article.
It also was rung on the day that Representative John Lewis died in July and a week after the presidential election to celebrate "that love and justice" prevailed...
Around 9 a.m. Saturday, "something sparked up and the units that were on the scene did what they were supposed to do, which is just put some water on it," said a FDNY spokesperson who declined to give his name. The flare-up was so minor that the FDNY personnel on scene did not transmit a fire alarm, the spokesperson said.
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Report: Faulty wiring caused fire that destroyed SE corner of 2nd Avenue and 7th Street
BFI sources say witnesses in the area first started smelling smoke around Midnight, Saturday. However the first 911 call wasn’t until hours later when a @nyctaxi driver saw flames rising from 48 E. 7 and pulled over to report it.
— 𝐌𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐍. 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 (@MylesMill) December 12, 2020