1964 - January 15

A three-alarm fire destroys Neptune’s Corner, a popular seafood restaurant at the corner of 48th Street and Sixth Avenue in New York City, as thousands of onlookers gather to watch firefighters battle the blaze, which quickly preads to the Fred Astaire Dance Studio on the second floor of the building and then breaks through the roof. The headline in the next day’s New York Daily News reads: ““Midtown Is Treated To a 3-Alarm Fish Fry.”