A battalion chief who had been considered a rising star in the Fire Department of New York was killed Tuesday when a row house exploded as he was supervising an evacuation following a report of a gas leak, and authorities are looking into whether the building was being used to grow marijuana.
On a summer morning near Chappaqua, New York, in 2011, Evan Lieberman, 19, was carpooling with co-workers when the driver collided with another vehicle. Five occupants between the two cars were sent to the hospital.
An accident involving two NJ Transit buses shut down the Lincoln Tunnel’s center tube into New York City Monday morning, causing delays of nearly two hours and injuring dozens. Some 44 people were hurt, though the injuries were not considered life-threatening.
A house believed to be a drug den exploded in the Bronx Tuesday, injuring at least seven people, including firefighters, according to police and fire officials.
Lemonade, the insurance startup that launched in January aiming to "Uberize" insurance, will begin selling policies soon in its home state of New York.
A man who defrauded State Farm Insurance of $19,553 in a claim stemming from an alleged burglary pleaded guilty to a felony Monday in Niagara County Court.
NASCAR was hit with a $500 million lawsuit accusing the auto racing body of racial discrimination for preventing black-owned teams and drivers from competing, including in the Sprint Cup Series.
The drone hovered over the clearing in the wooded park on Staten Island, the thin cord that tethered it to the ground unspooling enough for it to fly above the trees. Michael Wall, a New York City firefighter, stood on the ground below, operating the drone from a portable command center of sorts, with controls and a monitor housed in a mustard-colored case.
It was JetBlue’s plane stupidity that got a Manhattan boy lost. A 5-year-old returning home alone from a family visit in the Dominican Republic was placed on the wrong flight — and ended up 214 miles away in Boston while his panic-stricken mom waited at Kennedy Airport.
Three people were killed and nine others were injured early Wednesday in a collision on a major Long Island highway where just 10 days earlier six other people died in a horrific crash.
An NY Waterway ferry hit a group of kayakers in the Hudson River Tuesday, cutting one man’s arm to the bone and sending four other paddlers to the hospital, officials said.
The upper balcony of a three-story apartment building on Long Beach, Long Island collapsed Tuesday morning causing several balconies below to come crashing down.
There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.
Five people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed on Sunday when a car driver lost control and his vehicle became airborne, striking two cars traveling in the opposite direction on the Long Island Expressway, police said.
