The victim sustained smoke inhalation and burns when the flames broke out in his home on Midwood Street in the Wingate section just after 4:30 a.m.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The fire is under investigation.
It is not considered suspicious.
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