FDNY: 4 apartments heavily damaged in Mott Haven fire; 5 minor injuries

Dozens of families were forced out of their apartments on Easter Sunday when a four-alarm fire ripped through their building on Cypress Avenue in Mott Haven.

Deneen Taylor told News 12 she was sleeping when a neighbor began banging on her door.

“I opened up the door, and at this point I’m shaking,” said Taylor. “And [the neighbor] said, ‘There’s a fire somewhere!’ And I was like, ‘Oh no!”…

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