In 2019, when the FDNY first started tracking these fires, only 13 blazes were attributed to the batteries. By 2020, the number had more than tripled to 44, according to FDNY officials.

Burned patches of foliage can still be spotted throughout the 798-acre park — as well as some scorched golf balls from the ...

Mounds of cardboard boxes, plastic bags, newspapers and other filth appear strewn all over Livingston Street between Nevins ...

Officials said a hazmat team was requested at the fire in Williamsburg. Advertisement About Our Ads ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Islander and former FDNY chief Brian Cordasco was sentenced to 20 months in prison for his part in a “pay-to-play” bribery scheme where building owners and ...

Prosecutors said Basheer Vinson, 30, of Brooklyn, was at a house party on Patton Avenue in Wyandanch on Aug. 2, 2020 when he fatally shot Mark Birthwright Jr., 26. Police said Birthwright dropped ...

Grass fires continued to wreak havoc at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday as practice and qualifying sessions were halted three times when three separate blazes broke out. The dramatic scenes ...