The City Council voted Thursday to beef up enforcement of self-closing doors in apartment buildings and outlaw space heaters that don’t feature an automatic shutoff setting measures directly inspired by a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people earlier this year.
Bronx Councilman Oswald Feliz, whose district includes the Twin Parks apartment building that was devastated by the fatal Jan. 9 fire, told the Daily News that he will introduce the bill Thursday in a bid to “ensure another similar tragedy never happens again.”