Two Long Island Rail Road trains coming from opposite directions hit a vehicle at a crossing as the driver tried to get around the gates, killing three people inside the vehicle and derailing at least one of the trains, officials said.

A transformer fire in Queens sent an eerie blue light flooding the nighttime sky over NYC as electricity flickered in homes and LaGuardia was plunged into darkness. Con Edison says a brief electrical fire involving transformers broke out at the substation on 20th Avenue and 32nd Street in Astoria.