Fire guts Midtown soccer bar, forces 43-story skyscraper evacuation

NBC New York reports that a fire at Papillon, a restaurant on East 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, forced the evacuation of a 43-story office building at 520 Madison Avenue on Friday morning, affecting more than 200 people. Five minor injuries were reported, with one person hospitalized; fire officials responded around 7 a.m. to reports of a fire in a duct, and video evidence from the Citizen app corroborates visible smoke. The reporting is attributed to named journalist Jennifer Millman at an established local news outlet (NBC New York), includes specifics like building address, time of incident, and injury count, and notes that the restaurant was decorated with World Cup gear. However, the independent search results provided appear to reference a separate, unrelated incident involving a different Midtown building with structural/buckled column issues, suggesting the search results do not corroborate this specific fire story—readers should note that a cause remains under investigation and that no updates on fire origin or final safety clearance are provided in this report.