Weegee Daily… January 17, 1941… Charlie the Bum Confesses Setting Chinatown Fire…

PM Daily, January 17, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 153, p. 14
Charlie the Bum Confesses Setting Chinatown Fire
Two alarms brought 75 firemen to keep fire from spreading from three “tinderbox” tenements across 18-foot Doyers St., one of city’s narrowest.
Police said that a Chinese had confessed setting yesterday’s fire which destroyed a dilapidated old wooden building at 8 Doyers St., in Chinatown…
Three persons, two Chinese and one white man, died in that fire. Assistant District Attorney Rosenblum called the building “one of the rottenest hellholes I’ve ever seen.”
Mr. Rosenblum questioned tenants who paid $2 to $7 a month for dark cubicles. It appeared that the structure, which stood on Chinatown’s Bloody Angle…
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Doyers St.

Site of 8 Doyers St.
Weegee Daily, January 17, 1941
No fires, and not much sign of life… except for retro Dim Sum Parlor at the end…

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