Photo by Ben Lerman.
A fire at 640 West End Avenue at 91st Street on Tuesday afternoon brought a large FDNY response, but no one was reported injured.
Sixty firefighters responded to the fire, which was called in at 3:14. They had it under control by 4:09. There was a lot of debris in the apartment, an FDNY spokesman said, and witnesses said firefighters were tossing items out the window as they fought the blaze.
Photo by Aris Dervis.
Photo by Claude.
That building is always surrounded by ivy in warmer months. A reader says the “ivy” may actually be Virginia creeper.
Photo by Bosc D’Anjou.
A distant cousin to the Collyer Brothers?
Before my time, but well known incident in the history of Manhattan.
little known fact about the Collyer brothers:
They held the all-time low gas bill record set in 1931.
…of 37 cents.
to crumb….that’s an old honeymooners line…believe its the irs episode
Honeymooners? what’s that?
Just watched an 11:00 p.m. TV news report which showed the mountain of hoarded stuff that firefighters threw out the windows onto the street to reduce the danger. Staggering to see.
Now that’s a commenter who knows her New York history.
Always worried about the the real creepy hoarders who live directly above me on 107th street.
They were also ground zero for bedbugs in the building 3years ago.
This is the building where Elaine’s boss on Seinfeld lived. He was very picking about his socks.
Mr Pitts bldg.
Moland Spring
J. Fred Muggs, the chimp on the Today Show in the Dave Garroway era (1950s), lived there.
Hope it wasn’t like the Collyer brothers inside.