The blaze broke out at 4:20 p.m. ET at the Avalon at Edgewater complex, about 6 1/2 miles west of Yankee Stadium, and raged well into the night. It was reported still out of control at 8:30 p.m.
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“Maybe I’ll get lucky and there won’t be that much damage,” Sterling, 76, told the New York Daily News. “I don’t know what to expect. Now I have nowhere to go. And I need a toothbrush.”
Sterling was boarding an elevator when he smelled smoke and decided to leave.
“On one side of the building the elevators had already been shut down. I went to my elevators (at the back of the building) and tried walking in, but the smoke was so intense I said to myself, ‘John, you better get the hell out of here.’ So I just drove away,” Sterling said.
Sterling is staying at a nearby hotel.
No injuries have been reported.
