{"id":166402,"date":"2026-03-17T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166402\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:34:16","slug":"midtown-fire-sends-smoke-into-the-air-near-st-patricks-day-parade-in-manhattan-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166402\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown fire sends smoke into the air near St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade in Manhattan, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MIDTOWN, Manhattan &#8212; Thick plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky from the roof of a building in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened at 6 East 43rd Street between Fifth and Madison avenues, about a block from Grand Central. Strong winds could carry the smoke across several city blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire is a half of block off Fifth Avenue, near the start of the St Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade, but the parade was not be impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters battled the blaze on the roof HVAC system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It happened at 6 East 43rd Street between Fifth and Madison avenues.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/18725003_031726-wls-nyc-fire-raw-n1-vid.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It happened at 6 East 43rd Street between Fifth and Madison avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The building is an office-to-residential conversion being renovated into 441 rental units, with 111 of them affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The structure is largely vacant at the moment, with the exception of the 20,000-square-foot T-Squared Social venue operating on the ground level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the fire is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDTOWN, Manhattan &#8212; Thick plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky from the roof of a building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[68260,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-166402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-68260","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}