Here's an update on the efforts to help the victims of the Grand Street fire:
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development is working on finding long-term housing for about 200 people displaced by the disaster. Right now, they're living...
Last night, city officials faced pointed questions from tenants about the Fire Department's response to last Sunday night's devastating blaze on Grand Street. The residents had came to an informational meeting in Chinatown, which included briefings from several city...
Contractors are working quickly to take down the Grand Street buildings destroyed by fire one week ago. This was the scene yesterday afternoon -- workers hovering above the wreckage, carefully removing the top floors of 283 and 285 Grand.
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The human toll of this week's destructive fire on Grand Street came into sharp focus last night. A large number of residents displaced by the blaze crowded into the basement of the Chinese Benevolent Association on Mott Street for...
From Grand Street, the destruction caused by Sunday night's fire looks bad enough. But this morning, we have new photos taken from inside 289 Grand (the building on the corner of Grand and Eldridge Streets) illustrating the full extent...
Tomorrow evening, elected officials and representatives from NYC agencies will meet with residents who were displaced by Sunday night's fire on Grand Street. It will be a chance for tenants of 283 and 285 Grand street to ask questions...
An elderly man who was inside one of the apartment buildings that went up in flames on Grand Street last night has not been accounted for. City Councilmember Margaret Chin, who has spent most of the day on the...
We just returned from the scene of the Grand Street fire. Officials from the Fire Department and the Dept. of Housing Preservation & Development briefed City Councilmember Margaret Chin a short time ago. They have determined that two out...
A 7 alarm fire broke out in Chinatown last night, injuring several people. Firefighters converged on a 6-story residential and commercial building at 283-285 Grand Street, shortly after 10pm. 10 firefighters, a medical worker and three civilians were among...
