Shop owner to honor firefighters killed in 1962
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Peter Keane, owner of V.I.P. Auto Body, poses for a portrait close to the location where came across burned wood and a collapsed elevator shaft - remnants of the old soap factory destroyed in the inferno - during construction at his Maspeth auto body shop. (Sept. 19, 2012)
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For more than 20 years, Peter Keane ran his auto body shop in Maspeth, Queens, without realizing it was the site of one of New York City's deadliest fires, which claimed the lives of six firefighters.
The businessman only learned of the five-alarm blaze recently while renovating the building. He came across charred wood and a collapsed elevator shaft -- remnants of the old soap factory destroyed...
