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People in the Long Island community of Long Beach are being advised to boil their water after the bacteria E. coli was detected in the water supply.

People in the Long Island community of Long Beach are being advised to boil their water after the bacteria E. coli was detected in the water supply.

A derelict building in Hell’s Kitchen that was in the process of being demolished partially collapsed on Sunday, landing on a fruit and vegetable market, the FDNY said.

The busiest time of year for a Hell’s Kitchen gay bar and a farmers market will be much quieter this year, due to an unstable building next door

A city official who was fired over his agency’s response to a snowstorm that wreaked havoc on commutes last month says he will continue working until the city finds his replacement.

The commissioner of New York City’s Office of Emergency Management is at work Monday – not unusual, except for the fact that a deputy mayor apparently tried to fire him on Friday.

We are in record territory with this weather.

Thanksgiving will be the coldest in 117 years, according to Storm Team 4.

New Jersey cable customers were unnerved after a false alert went out on their televisions warning of an unspecified emergency.

Several homes had to be evacuated in a Bronx neighborhood when a sinkhole opened up on the street, officials say. A water main break in front of 1622 Adams Street in the Van Nest section at about 4:30 p.m. caused a sinkhole to open about two hours later, the FDNY says. Officials evacuated three homes in the area, and the…

A car burst into flames on the FDR Drive as the evening rush was getting underway Thursday, bringing traffic to a standstill. Cellphone video shows flames quickly spreading and engulfing the SUV on the southbound side of the highway, just below 34th Street.  Firefighters shut down all lanes of the highway as they put out the fire and cleaned...

Dallas city officials say the late night sounding of emergency warning sirens in the city was due to a hacker being able to access and repeatedly activate the system.

Dallas city officials say the late night sounding of emergency warning sirens in the city was due to a hacker being able to access and repeatedly activate the system.

Marine biologists say a humpback whale that washed up on a New York City beach appears to have died after being struck by a vessel. Experts from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society say a necropsy shows the whale had tissue damage consistent with blunt force trauma. The approximately 30-foot-long whale was found Tuesday on Rockaway Beach in Queens. Volunteers and…

A dead humpback whale washed up on the Rockaways in Queens Tuesday morning, hours after the U.S. Coast Guard reported seeing it floating nine miles offshore. The whale, about 25 to 30 feet in length, washed up on the beach at 117th Street at about 7 a.m., authorities said. The Coast Guard first spotted it in the waters in Monday…

At least two transformers at a PSE&G switching station in New Jersey suddenly failed Monday morning, knocking out power to about half the utility’s customers in Bayonne and several thousand others in Jersey City.

As the city slowly crawls back to normal following Tuesday’s fierce nor’easter, straphangers can expect lingering problems during their commutes.

A three-alarm fire tore through a Times Square restaurant Tuesday morning, spreading to a nearby building and sending thick smoke billowing into the streets of the Crossroads of the World.

A small plane crashed Sunday on a residential street in New Jersey, injuring the pilot, knocking down power lines and damaging parked cars, officials said.

The monster winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in some parts of the tri-state area was pulling away Thursday evening, leaving behind gusty winds and brutal wind chills in its wake.