"481 Van Brunt St. was quiet on Friday, said artist Deborah Ugoretz, who rents an artist studio in a portion of the building unaffected by fire. Broken glass and burnt debris littered the street, and most of the businesses remained closed. "It's a mess, it's a mess," Ugoretz said. "The windows are broken out, and there's signs of smoke damage to the building. It's kind of desolate." The fire broke out at the historic wood-framed warehouse late Wednesday night and burned until morning. On Thursday evening, hours after the flames seemed to have been subdued, the fire flared up and started to spread once more, said Carly Baker-Rice, executive director of the Red Hook Business Alliance."
""It's a complete destruction," said David Singh, co-founder of furniture store Lanoba Design. "There's not one thing to save. Not a screwdriver, not anything. The entire inventory is wiped out." "Our focus is really catching up on costs, repaying customers for items that were waiting to be delivered," he said. "We work with a lot of small businesses ... whether it be upholstery, or delivery, or everything in that matter. We want to make sure we can pay them, so they can keep going. That's our focus now, and then trying to look toward the future.""
A fire erupted late Wednesday night in a historic wood-framed warehouse on Van Brunt Street, burning through the night and flaring again Thursday evening. Buildings 7-11 (475–499 Van Brunt St.) sustained heavy damage, with roofs on buildings 9 and 10 collapsing and a section of a fourth floor falling. The Department of Buildings issued full vacate orders for all five buildings. Tenants and artists encountered broken glass, smoke damage, and pooled water inside spaces. Several businesses reported total loss of inventory and are prioritizing covering costs, repaying customers, and supporting impacted subcontractors.
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