STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The FDNY fought a basement fire at a home in Mariners Harbor on Thursday morning. The fire was called at 7:41 a.m. at a two-story, 12-by-40-foot townhouse at 353 Union Ave.
The elderly man died in the 3:40 a.m. fire that broke out inside the second-floor apartment on Brighton 3rd Street near Brightwater Court in Brighton Beach, where the faulty battery powering a ...