Four people were killed, including a 71-year-old man, after a fire tore through an e-bike service store on the first floor of a building near Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood early Tuesday morning, according to the police.
The fire, at a six-story mix-use building at 80 Madison Street, started around 12:15 a.m. and spread through the store, which has residential apartments above it, according to officials.
Six adults were taken to three area hospitals, where four of them — two women and two men — died.
The fire left soot smeared above the broken-out windows of the building, which also houses a deli, a laundromat and a news stand.
A mountain of charred e-bikes and scooters was piled up on the corner.
Persons:
—
Organizations:
Madison
Locations:
Manhattan’s Chinatown