One injured,
several displaced
in Unionport fi re
On Tuesday, the
FDNY confi rmed one
minor injury during a
wild three-alarm fi re
that started on the fi rst
fl oor of a dwelling at
2140 Ellis Ave. in the
Unionport section that
expanded into the two
adjacent buildings that
stretched local fi re response
into midnight
Tuesday.
The fi re, which broke
out just before midnight,
also displaced “several
residents” according to
the fi re sources to the
Times, and the civilian
was treated at a local
hospital. The NYPD is
active on the scene enforcing
street closures
on Ellis Avenue between
Castle Hill Avenue and
Havemeyer Avenue.
A total of 138 fi refi
ghters were able to extinguish
the blaze a few
minutes after 1 a.m. on
Tuesday.
So far, the cause of
the fi re has not been determined.
-Robbie Sequeira
ST. FRANCES DE CHANTAL SCHOOL
2962 Harding Avenue, Throggs Neck, The Bronx 10465
BRONX TIMES R 20 REPORTER, MAR. 4-10, 2022 BTR
Thick, billowy smoke rang emerges from a three-alarm fi re at a dwelling on 2140 Ellis Ave.
that also spread to another structure just before midnight on Monday.
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Hochul promotes plans to
speed up liquor licensing
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Governor Kathy Hochul wants to make the liquor
licensing process faster and easier for New York City
businesses so they can sell alcoholic beverages, by
beefi ng up the State Liquor Authority and modernize
the agency’s processes.
The governor included $2 million in her executive
budget to add 39 more employees to the SLA with 30 of
those earmarked to help review the applications, doubling
the agency’s current capacity.
“They have 114 employees, and 30 of them are dedicated
to review of those 75,000 applications — that is
impossible,” Hochul said during a press conference at
a Brooklyn wine bar on March 2.
The SLA currently has a backlog of 3,700 applications,
according to Hochul.
It takes the state usually some 26 weeks to process
the requests, but the added resources will allow the
SLA to shave off months from that, Hochul said.
The governor visited Therapy Wine Bar 2.0 in the
Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood Wednesday morning
to promote a bunch of other policies that she said
will get the state’s booze bureaucracy fl owing.
She wants the SLA to modernize its decades-old
system so that business owners no longer have to mail
in paper applications and can instead fi le and pay for
the permits online, which is set to go live this year.
“Kind of a radical concept, I know, I’m kind of going
out there on a limb,” she said. “But they’ve not had the
resources to build the infrastructure to do what they
wanted to do.”
The state is also looking at cutting more red tape in
the application requirements, like citizenship and fi -
nancial documents, according to the governor’s offi ce.
The announcements come as Hochul pushes to legalize
the pandemic-era to-go drinks program in the
state budget, which will be negotiated with lawmakers
in Albany over the coming weeks ahead of the April 1
deadline for the annual spending plan.
Hochul and the legislature in late December enacted
another law giving Big Apple businesses the option
— already available in other parts of the state —
to get temporary liquor licenses within about 30 days.
That allows them to start earning money from selling
booze sooner than having to wait for their full permit
for half a year while paying rent on their business,
noted the SLA’s chairperson.
“When you think the alternative is 26 weeks, that’s
just a remarkable difference and it’s certainly going to
change the business prospects of the people that are
opening these businesses,” said Vincent Bradley.
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