Theater District Smoked Up At Curtain Time Last Night
PM Daily, January 24, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 158, p. 15
The fire started among baled bolts of cotton fabric in the basement of 70 W. 38th St. The alarm was sent in at 8 o’clock and a second at 8:21. By 8:45, though the smoke made it a mean one to get at, the blaze had been doused without damage to millinery shops on the upper floors. The parked car at center got a soaking. One fireman was seriously burned in the foot.
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Weegee Daily, January 24, 2013
No Longer The Theater District, Not Smoked Up A Curatin Time Last Night…

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(to be continued…)

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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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PM Daily, January 13, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 149, p. 32
Fire Lieutenant Rescues Woman from Fourth Floor of Burning Building
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(To be continued…)