New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is announcing a new team to lead the city’s efforts to recover from Superstorm Sandy. De Blasio joined Sen. Charles Schumer on Saturday to announce his new plan to help New Yorkers rebuild …
Con Edison has made compensation payments to nearly 90 survivors and residents of the fatal blast in Harlem. According to the Wall Street Journal, the payments came a day after federal investigators found a leak in the gas main near …
Federal safety investigators found a leak on a natural gas pipeline next to a New York City building destroyed in a fatal explosion last week. The 8-inch main pipeline, parts of which are 120-years old, failed a pressure test, the …
The New York City fire department says more than a dozen people are still missing after an explosion leveled two apartment buildings, killing two people. The department also says more than 20 others were injured, including two with life-threatening injuries. …
A New York City chemistry teacher has been reassigned pending an investigation after two of her students suffered burns during a lab experiment. According to the New York Post, school officials say Anna Poole has been removed from class to …
New York City police are hunting for five bandits who used hammers to pull a brazen broad-daylight robbery at a Cartier store in midtown Manhattan. The suspects entered the store at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street at …
When dozens of former police officers and firefighters sought disability benefits, advisers provided a playbook for faking mental illness – how to describe daily routines of languishing dysfunction, flunk simple concentration tests convincingly, dress down for benefits interviews, even how …
A week after a Manhattan fire killed a young playwright, a New York City lawmaker proposed a new fire-safety requirement for high-rise apartment houses that could save lives. City Councilman Corey Johnson told a news conference Monday that buildings taller …
Fire officials say a faulty electrical wire caused a blaze in a Manhattan high-rise apartment building that killed a young New York playwright and seriously injured his husband. Daniel McClung, 27, died and Michael Todd Cohen, 32, was badly hurt …
Federal safety officials had issued warnings about the dangers of a popular chemistry experiment before a New York City teenager suffered life-threatening burns in a blast during a demonstration in his high school class. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board circulated …