Daily News from New York, New York • 144

DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1978 is-- g5B- my News photos by Dan Godfrey Flames roar from two windows of the tenement. Two families lose hoys in blaze i I- jc 1 1 0, CV; fJ Ml Checking blueprint of the new plumbing. j. News photos by Ken Korotkln i Two boyseach 2 years old died in separate apartments early yesterday when their families were unable to rescue them from a two-alarm fire that destroyed two floors of a tenement at 8-10 Rivington St. on the lower East Side.

Dead were Anthony Fernandez and Thomas Rodriguez. The fire started in the Rodriguez apartment and traveled upward. The cause is under investigation. The Commodore is getting a big raze The lobby of the old Commodore Hotel, which opened at the corner of 42d St. and Lexington Ave.

in 1916, is being stripped to its framework as demolition continues in order to make way for a new hotel, the New York Hyatt. Everything will go but the steelwork, and then the new, 26-story structure will go up. The grand opening of the new Hyatt is planned for spring 1980, and it will feature 576 twins, 649 kings, 17 sitting suites, 88 junior suites, 30 VIP suites, 4 deluxe suites, 2 executive suites and just one presidential suite. And for the weary commuter, six restaurants and watering places. -f Fireman takes a whiff of air after inhaling smoke.

is. 1 4 TS, f5 ry LU Li" s- tv i5 III 1 Wn i (ns tZ If iljillMllltl Peggy Rodriguez, mohe pf one of the dead boys, is assisted scene of the tragedy. Lobby of Commodore Hotel just before doors were closed two years ago. Stepping oyer an old gargoyle. Taking apart' some old steelwork..