Flames broke out in the three-story building on Fulton Street in Cypress Hills. The FDNY says it started on the ground floor around 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
It took firefighters more than an hour to get flames under control.
The fire marshal is trying to figure out whether the batteries caused the fire.
No injuries were reported.
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