{"id":69578,"date":"2025-12-13T04:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69578\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:50:13","slug":"fire-guts-vacant-3-3-million-riverdale-bronx-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69578\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts vacant $3.3 million Riverdale, Bronx, mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A vacant Bronx home that sold for $3.3 million in 2022 was destroyed in a fire on Friday, firefighters said.<\/p>\n

The blaze ignited in the basement of the Palisade Ave. home near Ladd Rd. in Riverdale<\/a> around 9:24 a.m., Deputy Fire Chief Jeffrey Facinelli told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n

Firefighters swiftly extinguished the fire in the basement, but the flames spread<\/a> through voids in the walls, and smoke eaters continued pouring water into the home as fires broke out on the first and second floors and attic, Facinelli said.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries, Facinelli said.<\/p>\n

\"AA vacant Bronx home that sold for $3.3 million in 2022 was destroyed by a fire that started in the basement of the Palisade Ave. home near Ladd Road in Riverdale on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

A neighbor told the Daily News that the property had been vacant for at least a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised there was a fire. It\u2019s been obviously vacant,\u201d Kevin Slavin said. \u201cWhat\u2019s strange to me is that it\u2019s been boarded up, obviously no one\u2019s living there, but there\u2019s been attention paid to the grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir grounds are kept nicer than mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The property, which was previously home to Alice and Stuart Boynton, was sold to Palisade Rose LLC for $3.3 million in Dec. 2022, according to a Riverdale Press report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AFirefighters battle the blaze at the vacant Bronx home on Palisade Ave. near Ladd Road in Riverdale on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"AA vacant Bronx home that sold for $3.3 million in 2022 was destroyed by a fire that started in the basement of the Palisade Ave. home near Ladd Road in Riverdale on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"AThe vacant Bronx home had been boarded up but the grounds were well maintained, a neighbor said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vacant Bronx home that sold for $3.3 million in 2022 was destroyed in a fire on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-69578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69578","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=69578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}