Upper West Side High-Rise Apartment Fire Kills Woman, Critically Injures Another
Early on Thursday morning, March 13, a fire on the 14th floor of a 15-story high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side, at 175 West 73rd Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenue, left a 41-year-old woman dead and a 77-year-old woman fighting for her life at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. According to law Read More »
Elderly Woman Dies in Greenwich Village Apartment Building Fire
A fire erupted on Wednesday, March 5, inside the top floor of a five-story townhouse at 142 Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, trapping an 81-year-old woman in the hallway. The blaze broke out at 7:20 am and was extinguished by 8:00 am. The woman was found dead when more than 60 firefighters and medics responded Read More »
Track Smoke at Washington Heights Subway Station Injures 18
Eighteen people were injured on Tuesday, February 25, when a train knocked a piece of equipment into the third rail at a Washington Heights subway station, sending heavy smoke into the air. Sixteen of the injured individuals were taken to the hospital for smoke-inhalation treatment. According to the FDNY, the incident happened shortly before 1 Read More »
Attorneys Ronemus & Vilensky Win Million-Dollar Settlement for Wife Whose Husband Died in Fire
After 12 years of vigilant litigation, attorneys Ronemus & Vilensky have won a million-dollar settlement for the wife of a husband who died in a fire while doing contract work for a recording studio that was inhabiting a building space in the Bronx illegally. The studio hired the 29-year-old handyman to do cement work in Read More »
Apartment Fire on the Upper East Side Injures Five
On Monday, February 24, at about 12:50 p.m., a fire ignited inside a 40-story high-rise apartment building at 205 East 92nd Street on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. The fire was on the 16th floor. Five people were injured, with three victims transported to a local hospital for treatment. Seventy-eight firefighters and EMS workers Read More »
Update: Bronx Fire that Injured Child Had No Smoke Detectors, Working Fire Alarms
An apartment fire at 3514 Rochambeau Ave., between East Gun Hill Road and East 212th Street, in the Norwood section of the Bronx, on Friday, February 14, that left six people injured, including a two-year-old child, had no smoke detectors and working fire alarms. One of the tenants in the building said she never heard Read More »
Woman Dies in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Fire
An 85-year-old woman was killed Friday morning, February 21, in her third-floor unit in a Brooklyn apartment fire on Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights. Her apartment and a fourth-floor unit were damaged in the four-story building. The woman immigrated to New York City from Haiti when she was 20. The FDNY received the call about Read More »
Six Injured in Fast-Moving Bronx Apartment Fire, Four Hurt in Washington Heights Fire
A Bronx apartment building fire at 3514 Rochambeau Ave., between East Gun Hill Road and East 212th Street, on Friday, February 14, left six people injured, including a two-year-old child. The patients were treated by EMS for smoke inhalation and transported to local hospitals, according to the FDNY. The fire started on the third floor Read More »
Bronx Fire Kills One, Critically Injures Another Person
A three-alarm fire on Wednesday at 6:00 am in the Tremont section of the Bronx killed one person, with another individual in critical condition at Saint Barnabas Hospital. The fire at East 180 th Street and Anthony Avenue, near E. Burnside Avenue, impacted two buildings, including a Buddhist temple. According to Fire Rescue 1, aerial Read More »
Tribeca Fire Leaves 20 Residents Homeless, Gym Owner Out in the Cold
A two-alarm fire that broke out in a seven-story, cast-iron building at 45 White Street in Tribeca, New York City, on January 22 left at least two firefighters injured, 20 residents displaced, and the owner of a gym in the building out of business. It took over 100 firefighters and EMS personnel about four hours Read More »
