A fire on Manhattan's Upper East Side sent plumes of black smoke into the sky as people in the neighborhood reported hearing an explosion.

Law enforcement officials say a shooter or shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.

Video shared on social media showed thick black smoke in the air rising near apartment buildings on East 95th Street on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. There have so far been no reports of injuries.

Three men, including a 19-year-old, were killed and nine other people were injured early Sunday when a dispute inside a crowded New York City nightclub erupted into a shooting incident that police said appeared to have involved multiple gunmen firing dozens of shots.

At least three people were killed in an early Sunday shooting at a crowded nightclub in Brooklyn, New York, police said. Officers responding to an emergency call found 11 people with gunshot wounds inside the Taste of the City Lounge,

Three people were killed and nine others wounded when up to four gunmen opened fire inside a New York City restaurant in Brooklyn early Sunday following a dispute at the crowded venue.

New York City has about a million buildings, and each year 3,000 of them erupt in a major fire. Can officials predict which ones will go up in flames? The New York City Fire Department thinks it ...

The Department of Justice has just filed a discrimination suit against the New York City Fire Department, alleging that the written exam for department eligibility is biased against blacks and Hispanics, because their pass rate is lower than for whites. Several questions come to mind, namely: —Isn’t this farce getting a bit old? In the […]

The problem isn't new to the New York City fire department. In 1973, a judge mandated hiring quotas to increase the number of minority firefighters, as the New York Times (paywall) reports.

Hazmat teams have been deployed to a federal government building in New York City after envelopes containing a mysterious white powder were discovered, authorities said. Just before 4 p.m. on Thursday, the New York City Fire Department received a report of white powder on the 9th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, a spokesperson told The Independent.