At the building, the sign erected for the film set, “The King Rooster, cocktails and jazz” was somehow undamaged.
A New York firefighter was killed on Thursday night in a blaze at a building in Harlem that was being used as a set for Motherless Brooklyn, a film adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, directed by Edward Norton.
Sugar Hill has become increasingly popular as a film set.
They said crews immediately called the fire department when they noticed smoke on the set.