Fire tears through chicken restaurant in the Bronx

NEW YORK -- Fire burned through a chicken restaurant in the University Heights section of the Bronx early Tuesday.

The blaze broke out inside the Kennedy Fried Chicken on Jerome Avenue just before 6:30 a.m.

Heavy flames shot out the roof of the building.

Local streets were closed through the area.

No. 4 train service was also temporarily suspended between 161st Street-Yankee Stadium and Woodlawn in both directions during the investigation.

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