{"id":298880,"date":"2026-07-17T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298880\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:53:27","slug":"midtown-fire-at-papillon-sparks-evacuation-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298880\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown fire at Papillon sparks evacuation \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-story skyscraper was evacuated Friday, sending more than 200 people out into the streets, after a fire broke out at a midtown Manhattan restaurant, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say they were called to the scene at the 520 Madison Avenue high-rise around 7 a.m. for a reported fire in a duct. The building was evacuated. <\/p>\n<p>Video posted to the Citizen app shows smoke billowing from the top of the skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>Five minor injuries to civilians were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said at a media briefing that they learned the original fire started in a restaurant on East 54th Street. The address comes back to Papillon, a Parisian-inspired bistro and bar.<\/p>\n<p>The bar was decked out in World Cup gear ahead of Saturday&#8217;s third-place match between France and England.<\/p>\n<p>A cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-story skyscraper was evacuated Friday, sending more than 200 people out into the streets, after a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[194,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-298880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-fdny","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298880","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=298880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}