Led by a sharp drop in pedestrian deaths, overall traffic fatalities in New York City fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2017 to their lowest on record, thanks at least in part to an ongoing safety improvement program, city officials said on Monday.

Two people were injured, one seriously, in an early-morning fire near the top of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, the New York Fire Department said on Monday.

Flooding from a water main break forced the temporary suspension of some flights at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, adding to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.

At least one person was killed and another seriously injured in a multi-car pileup involving more than two dozen vehicles on the New York State Thruway near Buffalo, authorities said.

At least 12 people were hurt on Tuesday as a fire tore through an apartment building in the Bronx, just days after another blaze in the New York City borough killed 12 people, a New York City Fire Department spokesman said.

A Brooklyn woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly filing a fake insurance claim to a Woodbury company for a car that she knew was seized by police, according to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.

An "unattended lit menorah" was the source of a fire that killed a Brooklyn woman and her three children during Hanukkah, the New York City Fire Department said.

Financial regulators in New York have banned the use of a consumer’s educational background and occupation as factors in pricing auto insurance premiums.

The increasing pace of cyber-related events and crimes has led state regulators to survey the growing risks and take action. In New York, the Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) enacted cybersecurity rules effective March 1, 2017.

Florida, thanks to a string of liability-expanding decisions, has earned itself the top spot in the newest Judicial Hellhole” rankings, according to an annual report issued by the American Tort Reform Association Tuesday.

A fire raged across three blocks in a city near Albany on Thursday after a man tried to forge a piece of metal over a fire in a barrel near his home, officials said.

A fire broke out in the Viacom building in Times Square on Monday evening, forcing the evacuation of more than 100 people, officials said.

Approximately 84 firefighters responded to the 45-story building on 45th Street and Broadway around 4:15 p.m. after reports of smoke in a basement parking garage, officials said.

The developer of the World Trade Center in New York has reached a $95.2 million settlement of all claims against American Airlines Group Inc, United Continental Holdings Inc and other aviation defendants stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which involved the carriers’ hijacked planes.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of an explosion and fire that killed one man and injured more than 30 people, including firefighters, at a manufacturing plant in New York’s Hudson Valley.

A driver took off during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Saturday, plowing through a red light and hitting an MTA bus and two cars in chaotic crashes that left six people injured, the NYPD said.