Mar. 28, 2023 By Adam Daly
Over three months after the fire that ripped through a Red Hook warehouse, which stored decades-old New York City Police Department evidence, legal advocates are still seeking answers from the city about how it plans to address the impact it may have on pending criminal and exoneration cases.
Mar. 23, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
On August 12, 2022, Mercedes Toribio woke up early to feed her elderly mother and was hit by the smell of smoke in her Bushwick apartment. She immediately got her mother out of bed and onto the street and called 911. She then frantically alerted her neighbors to get them out of the building, she said.
Mar. 16, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell
Three people are injured after an all-hands fire in East New York early this morning.
Mar. 13, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
In the wee hours of March 12, 2022, an electrical fire broke out in the basement of the Red Hook Tavern — a cozy restaurant and bar on Van Brunt Street. Smoke rose up through the restaurant on the ground floor and into the apartments above, where a tenant called 911.
Feb. 28, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell
FDNY personnel battled a large blaze in a Williamsburg building on Tuesday morning, leaving two civilians and a firefighter injured.
Feb. 27, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell
One person is dead after a large Crown Heights fire that engulfed an apartment on Monday morning.
Feb. 21, 2023 By Emily Davenport
The FDNY is working to extinguish a four-alarm blaze that broke out in a building storing lumber in Williamsburg.
Feb. 20, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell
FDNY personnel rushed to the scene of a fire in East New York on Monday night, putting out the blaze on the third floor apartment during a busy night of firefighting in Brooklyn.