Man arrested in Greenpoint market fire headed to alcohol-treatment center

The man arrested in connection to one of the largest fires in Brooklyn is being sentenced Wednesday, but not for arson.A plea deal cleared Leszek Kuczera, 60, of charges that he sparked the fire in May

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