The city was slow to distribute the $4.4 million it had raised until a Gothamist report, more than two months after the blaze, confirmed that less than 10 percent of those funds made it out the door in the form of direct payments.
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The Bronx Fire Relief Fund raised more than $4 million for victims of the January blaze, but survivors say they have seen only a fraction of the money.
“That building was scheduled to be inspected, but because they were sent to a task force that building was not inspected,” Barzilay testified. “It’s terrible,” he told the Daily News after his testimony. “I’m not blaming Eric Adams. I’m blaming the previous administration for not thinking it through.”