Fire Breaks Out In Brownsville NYCHA Building: FDNY

BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN — The third fire to hit New York City's public housing in less than two weeks broke out in Brownsville early Monday morning. The fire in a fourth-floor apartment at 157 Belmont Ave. was reported just after 6:20 a.m., an FDNY spokesman said.

That's the address of an 18-story building at the New York City Housing Authority's Low Houses. No one was hurt in the fire, which firefighters had under control just after 6:50 a.m., the FDNY spokesman said.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, the spokesman said.

It came after a blaze at the Beach 41st Street - Beach Channel Drive development in the Rockaways left one woman dead last Thursday. Another fire at the Fred E. Samuels Apartments in Harlem killed a family of six on May 8.