A New York City spokesman says a building in which a fire raced through an open door and up a stairwell, killing a dozen people, was required to have self-closing doors. Department of Housing ...

What’s wrong with it? A: You have a hinge problem on your fire door, which is required to have a self-closing mechanism. Although these doors are important, they can also be a pain. I don’t kn ...

HPD issued more than 22,000 self-closing door tickets in fiscal year 2021 ... through schools. “We are going to double down on that message.” Councilmember Oswald Feliz, who represents the Bronx ...

What’s wrong with it? A: You have a hinge problem on your fire door, which is required to have a self-closing mechanism. Although these doors are important, they can also be a pain. I don’t kn ...

If the self-closing door to your garage isn’t closing hard enough to latch properly or the door slams shut, you can adjust the spring hinge tension with a hex wrench and pliers. Start by ...

All apartment buildings in the city will need to have self-closing doors installed by 2021 under new fire safety legislation. The bills were passed by the City Council months after a fire in the ...

City inspectors previously repeatedly cited The Bronx high-rise where 17 people died in a fire for failing to maintain its self-closing apartment doors — a key defense against rapidly spreading ...

City housing officials are ramping up inspections of apartment buildings to ensure compliance with a fire safety law requiring “self-closing doors” — more than year after a horrific Bronx ...

Two self-closing doors did not shut properly and allowed smoke to spread, Fire Department of New York Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. All 17 people died from smoke inhalation and the city's ...