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January 31, 2012
Party Hard: Daniel Phillips Gets 10 Years in Prison for Setting Fire to Building Post-Shindig
Daniel Phillips must been a little confused by party etiquette: If you go to a fiesta, do bring a bottle of wine -- do not set the host's house on fire. Some of us are flummoxed by even the most basic manners, and Phillips is apparently no exception: The Manhattan District Attorney announced today ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Connecticut Home Blaze 'Fireplace-Related'
gigmasters.comThe victims of the Stamford fire.Yesterday we brought you the tragic story of the five people -- three girls and their grandparents -- who died when a fire engulfed their Stamford, Conn. home. Now, Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia has told the Associated Press that the fire "firepla ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 23, 2011
MEMORY LANE
Weren't the '70s the best?
Film
October 5, 2011
After the Death Penalty, Still Fighting for Justice in Incendiary: The Willingham Case
Weren't the '70s the best?
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August 10, 2011
'John Zorn Improv Night'
Weren't the '70s the best?
Blogs
May 26, 2011
Sing Sing Prison Fire: Inmate Complaints Rise to 117
Another 70 inmates are complaining about missteps in Sing Sing correctional facility officials' handling of the April 18 pre-dawn electrical fire at the upstate prison, the Voice has learned. Some 700 inmates had to be relocated following the fire, many suffering respiratory injuries. In all ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2011
Smart Dog Survives Fire By Submerging Self in Bathtub
Mia reunites with her humans.An eerily logical South Carolina dog survived a raging house fire by hiding in a bathtub on the lowest level of her family's home. Mia, a 1-year-old Belgian Malinois, had to open four doors to get to the basement bathtub, where she calmly waited for a full six hours a ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 27, 2011
TOILET TALK
A controversial Spanish play tests New Yorkers
Blogs
April 26, 2011
Today in El Diario: Bronx Family Killed in Fire May Have Been Squatters
Unhappy ending: Family killed in Bronx Apartment Fire A Mexican couple and their son died in a Bronx apartment fire early Sunday morning, and the brother of one of the victims has now come forward to tell his side of the story, the Spanish-language daily reports. Arturo Lucio, who is speak ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
'Devil' Man in Staten Island Lights Poop-Covered Door on Fire
Charred door poop (Staten Island Advance/John Annese)Okay, this is absurd because one of the following attacks would get the point across just fine: A Staten Island man by the name of Rasheen (Illuminati) Harrison (?) stripped naked, rubbed poop on the door of his pregnant ex-girlfriend's a ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Indian Point Not Only Seismically at Risk, Also a Fire Trap
There's more troublesome news coming out of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Last week, we spoke to Columbia University disaster expert Klaus Jacob about vulnerability at the Westchester County plant, which supplies around 20 percent of New York City's power. Today, we learned that the ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Bay Ridge Apartment Fire Blamed on Pet Tortoise
Being a tortoise is really unfair sometimes. You have to carry this big shell around on your back (fortunately, it's awesome for hiding under, like when you run into someone at the mall who you just don't feel like small-talking it up with). You're known as being sort of "slow," but also reli ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Roseland Was Totally On Fire
A two-alarm fire broke out at Roseland tonight around 10:30 (originating on the mezzanine level) and was contained a little over an hour later; the latest report at the moment says six firefighters suffered minor injuries, but thankfully that's the extent of it. There was no show happening, thank ... More >>
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March 5, 2011
Day Care Owner Added to "Most Wanted" List
via CNNJessica Tata, a 22-year-old day care owner in Houston, has been added to the FBI's 15 Most Wanted list in connection to a fire at her day care center that killed four children. Tata refused to talk to authorities after the February 24 fire and fled to Georgia. She's now believed to hav ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
East Village Farm and Grocery Also Badly Damaged by Fire
DNAinfo/Gabriela Resto-Montero It has been a bad, bad morning for East Village food concerns: a couple of hours before Sixth Street Kitchen was badly damaged by a fire, a similar blaze occurred at East Village Farm & Grocery on the corner of Second Avenue and East Fourth Street. According to ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
THE MAGIC MAN
Move over, David Blaine
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September 30, 2010
Brooklyn Fire Kills 8-Year-Old Boy; Injures 5 Other Children
via New York PostA residential fire last night at 1123 Avenue P in Midwood, Brooklyn, killed the 8-year-old son of a Brooklyn rabbi; NY1 reports the boy's name as Avigdor Krasny. The rabbi's five other children, who range in age from 1 to 10, are in Staten Island North Hospital. The 1-year-ol ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Breaking: Track Fire on Metro North (With Pictures!)
Here's how New Yorkers are starting their week: with a huge fire on Metro North at Harlem River Drive and Park Avenue. Via the Wall Street Journal: "Metro-North identified it as the 138th Street lift bridge on the Harlem River. Train service was suspended at 11:45 a.m." Someone must've had an ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Your "Wait, What?" of the Day: NY1 Can't See Their Heads in Front of Their Own Faces
Blockquotes! Those magical parts of blog posts bloggers use to fill space with information they're too laze to re-purpose themselves: they happen. And sometimes, when bloggers like this one throw a paragraph in blockquotes, they're too blithe to notice the intensely "WTF" part of them they mi ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Aftermath of the Fire at 240 East Houston: No Residents Injured
via EV GrieveThe morning after.If you were anywhere near downtown Manhattan last night, you heard about or even smelled the four-alarm fire at 240 East Houston that started around 5:30 p.m. Streets were blocked for hours as firefighters put out the blaze and then contained the building post-f ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Three-Alarm Blaze in the East Village Under Control; 5 Businesses Destroyed, Pets Safe
Fireblog.tumblr.comThere was a pretty big fire at 14th Street and Avenue A earlier today. Fireblog has pictures. The blaze, which started around 10 am and affected Stuyvesant Deli, Pete's-A-Place, Rainbow, and Jackson Hewitt, among other neighboring stores, seems to now be under control.
Blogs
April 27, 2010
After Chinatown Fire, Tenants Pick Over the Ruins
Two weeks after a seven-alarm fire ripped through their Chinatown building and three others, the tenants of 289 Grand Street lined up in front of the ruins on Saturday afternoon to salvage whatever remained of their belongings. The tenants came with empty shopping bags and low expectations as th ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 16, 2010
Nautical Almanac+Mouthus+Weyes Blood
Two weeks after a seven-alarm fire ripped through their Chinatown building and three others, the tenants of 289 Grand Street lined up in front of the ruins on Saturday afternoon to salvage whatever remained of their belongings. The tenants came with empty shopping bags and low expectations as th ... More >>
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February 21, 2010
Bronx Woman Survives 5-Story Fall From Burning Apartment
An unidentified woman trying to escape a fire in a fifth floor apartment in the Bronxdale Houses at 1836 Watson Avenue climbed out of the window and fell to the ground when her grip on the air conditioner failed. According to a witness who spoke to the News, "She was hanging on to the air co ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 2, 2010
Atlas Sound
An unidentified woman trying to escape a fire in a fifth floor apartment in the Bronxdale Houses at 1836 Watson Avenue climbed out of the window and fell to the ground when her grip on the air conditioner failed. According to a witness who spoke to the News, "She was hanging on to the air co ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2010
Diner owner charged with arson in Bronx five-alarm fire
The owner of the American Diner, one of the Bronx businesses destroyed on December 21 in a five-alarm fire, was arrested by fire marshals Friday for hiring someone to burn the place down.
Blogs
December 24, 2009
Have a Fire-Safety Christmas!
Along with caroling, gift-giving, and binge drinking, Christmas is the season of fire safety. Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn offers a Surge Protector and Power Strip Safety lecture. And here's a cheery late press release: "California American Water Offers Holiday Fire Safety Tips." In the Sa ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2009
Big Food Cuts Salt & Sugar; Jonathan Safran Foer's Top Meat-Free Picks
14 must-haves for your holiday spread include Murray's Cheese's artisanal charcuterie and cheese board, Steve's Meat Market's smoked ham, Sahadi's olives, nuts, and dried fruit; and Moishe's Bake Shop's jelly doughnuts, mixed rugelach, babka, and Hanukkah cookies. [NY Daily News] Hotel Grif ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
Bound Corpse Found in East New York Fire
The Queens fire that killed sexual-harassment plaintiff Bianca Kuros last weekend is no longer considered suspicious. Now FDNY investigators, and the NYPD too, will turn their attention to a new fire, in East New York at 395 Warwick Avenue, in the ruins of which a dead man was found tied up. ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Suspicious Fire in Queens Claims Sexual Harassment Plaintiff
An early-morning Sunday blaze at the Pomonok Houses in Kew Gardens Hills required the attention of over a hundred firefighters and claimed the life of Bianca Kuros, 44, who had been involved in a sexual harassment suit against JPMorgan Chase and Total Safety Consulting, and in whose apartment ... More >>
News
September 15, 2009
A Teen Volunteer Firefighter Is Accused of Sending His Neighbors Up in Smoke
An early-morning Sunday blaze at the Pomonok Houses in Kew Gardens Hills required the attention of over a hundred firefighters and claimed the life of Bianca Kuros, 44, who had been involved in a sexual harassment suit against JPMorgan Chase and Total Safety Consulting, and in whose apartment ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 15, 2009
WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
Artist shifts focus from environmental to personal
Blogs
August 25, 2009
Worker Killed on Throgs Neck Bridge; Several Lanes Closed
On the Throgs Neck Bridge this morning a worker was "struck by the boom from a boom truck," says the MTA, and was killed. (Earlier reports had him falling from the bridge.) The worker, not yet identified, was pinned under the boom until firefighters arrived to lift it off. He was pronounced dead at ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2009
Starbucks Bomber out on Bail
The AP reports that Kyle Shaw, the 17-year-old arrested and charged with arson, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal mischief in the Memorial Day weekend bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks, has been released on $300,000 bail. The recent high school grad and Fight Club fanatic detonated ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2009
Queens D.A. Says Girl, 6, Burned in Voodoo Rite; Mother, Grandmother Charged
A six-year-old child suffered serious burns on 25 percent of her body after her mother poured accelerant on her as part of a Haitian voodoo practice called "Loa," the Queens D.A. alleges. The child's grandmother and a friend looked on but did not intervene. In early February, Frantzcia Saintil was ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2009
Brooklyn DA Nabs Killers in Vicious Cat Murder
The vicious teen killers apparently had nothing better to do: On October 7, Angelo Monderoy, 18, and Matthew Cooper, 17, broke into a vacant apartment at 1933 Union Street. There, they allegedly lured the helpless victim inside. Pinning the innocent to the floor, the duo squirted lighter fluid all ... More >>
News
February 19, 2008
Two Brooklyn Brothers Are the Kings of the Expediters
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Blogs
November 6, 2007
Henry Hill's New Mob-Themed Restaurant Burns
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Blogs
October 29, 2007
Two FDNY Busted for Arson
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Blogs
October 19, 2007
Mukasey Stood Up for Convicted Arsonist
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Blogs
August 23, 2007
Firefighter Joe Graffagnino: RIP
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Blogs
August 20, 2007
Unanswered Questions about the Deutsche Bank Fire
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Blogs
June 15, 2006
Suspicious Fires? What Suspicious Fires?
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
News
May 9, 2006
Fire Storms
An inferno in Greenpoint highlights a drop in the number of fire investigators
Film
December 27, 2005
Squatters' Fights: Crackheads and Gentrification in the LES
An inferno in Greenpoint highlights a drop in the number of fire investigators
Specials
October 18, 2005
Arson for Hire
The Men Who Are Burning New York
News
June 28, 2005
The Fire Next Time
Skyscraper safety: the push for NY's high-rises to learn not to burn
Dance
May 17, 2005
Misery Proves a Companionable Muse for Tatelbaum
Skyscraper safety: the push for NY's high-rises to learn not to burn
News
March 9, 2004
The Fire Down Below
Sifting Through the Ashes, City Arson Squad Probes Major Blaze in DUMBO
News
February 25, 2003
Disco Inferno
New York Nightclubs Fend Off Conflagration
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