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Some, if not all of the deaths could likely have been prevented if the high rise’s owners had addressed known safety issues, including malfunctioning doors that should have closed automatically and windows that did not open, the new suit argues.

Residents filed 58 complaints to the New York Department of Housing and Development (HPD) against the Grand Avenue building's landlord in the last year alone

BRONX, N.Y. - On Sunday, Jan. 9 at 11:00 a.m. a vicious fire tore through the Twin Parks, NorthWest building, located at 333 E.181st street, in the Bronx. The fire started in unit 3M after a heater was allegedly left on for three days.

The city’s new Democratic mayor, along with the entire political establishment and bourgeois media, is preparing increased police repression as a response to growing working class resistance to the pandemic and its consequences.

The death of seventeen people, most of them from the Gambia, evoked the city’s long history of failing to provide safe and affordable housing for migrants.

The fire, New York’s deadliest in decades, shows why pandemic-era housing policy Band-Aids aren’t enough.

A horrific apartment building fire that killed 17 New Yorkers on Jan. 9 has sparked lawsuits and public outrage against the building's three owners, which include a Portland firm.

Philadelphia On Jan. 5, 12 people, including nine children in an extended family, died in a row house fire in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood. All the victims were Black. Four days later on Jan. 9, a fire in a Bronx high-rise in New York City claimed 17 lives, including eight children.…

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The effort is being spearheaded by Democratic Councilman Oswald Feliz, who was elected last year to represent a section of the Bronx that includes the Twin Parks apartment tower in Fordham Heights where a fire killed 17 people on Jan. 9, 2022.