This news is old, dating back to the previous occupant of the Patriarchal Administrator throne.
It seems telling that an electrical fire spontaneously ignited at that time and in the building taken over by the
Soviets for their own "Cathedral".
"October 30, 2013
Administrator of Patriarchal Parishes in the USA Archbishop Yustinian of Naro-Fominsk asks believers to extend financial help in eliminating consequences of the fire that happened in the cell floor of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York.
“Not waiting for the insurance company to finance large-scale restoration works, we have to start glazing broken windows and install new doors instead those that were broken open in a hurry before cold weather sets up, so that liturgical life and work of the Sunday school go on,” the Archbishop says in his address cited by the press service of the Russian Church in the USA.
The archbishop informed that electrical wiring that goes from the office to the church shop was ignited spontaneously.