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A firefighter was badly injured Friday, not by the smoke or flames tearing through a Manhattan apartment building, but by a 40-foot fall. The Hamilton Heights building ignited around 2:30 p.m. and quickly shot to five alarms, triggering a massive response from the FDNY. Huge flames could be seen shooting out from apartment windows on multiple floors. Everyone inside the…

The fire burned at least 10 apartments, FDNY officials said, but none of the building’s residents suffered more than minor injuries. News 4’s Chris Jose reports. 

One of two former FDNY chiefs indicted last month in a federal bribery probe that accused the men of exchanging bribes for fast-tracking inspections has pleaded not guilty, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Brian Cordasco pleaded not guilty to conspiring to solicit and receives bribes, Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced. Cordasco was charged...

Anthony Saccavino, 59, and Brian Cordasco, 49, are charged with conspiracy to solicit and receive a bribe, solicitation and receipt of a bribe, honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, and making false statements in the scheme. News 4’s Chris Glorioso reports. 

The chiefs are accused of taking tens of thousands in bribes to help fast-track safety inspections and reviews. 

The latest staffing shake-up within the Adams administration comes amid ongoing federal investigations into many of his top officials. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports.  

Two former FDNY chiefs were indicted on bribery, corruption and false statement offenses for allegedly conspiring to solicit and accept tens of thousands of dollars in bribe payments for giving preferential treatment to certain people and companies with safety inspection matters pending, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Anthony Saccavino, 59, and Brian Cordasco, 49, were charged with conspiracy to solicit and…

Melissa Russo shares the details for NBC New York. 

The NYC is naming a new commissioner a month after Laura Kavanagh announced she would be stepping down. Here’s what we know. 

Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed Robert S. Tucker, the head of a private security firm, to head the city’s fire department. Tucker, 54, takes over from Laura Kavanagh, the first woman to serve as the city’s fire commissioner. “I can think of no higher calling than serving as a fire commissioner of New York,” Tucker, the chairman and...

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for hurling a Molotov cocktail into a Brooklyn deli nearly three years ago, causing significant damage to the business and narrowly taking the lives of the two workers inside. Prosecutors said Joel Mangal, 40, threw a lit device into the deli on Oct. 30, 2021, and tried to chuck a…

Police believe a man started a fire that injured at least ten people in Brooklyn Tuesday morning, and that man is also accused of trying to block people from escaping. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The cause is under investigation. Romney Smith reports.

Nearly a dozen people were hurt, one of them critically, when a fire engulfed a Brooklyn apartment overnight, authorities say. Investigators are looking into the case as a possible arson, and some witnesses said the man may have tried to stop people from getting out. The FDNY says firefighters responded to a report of a fire on the first floor…

The head of the New York City Fire Department has notified Mayor Eric Adams that she intends to step down from her post in order to explore other career opportunities, officials familiar with the commissioner’s plans told News 4. “My dedication to the FDNY has never and will never waver. It has been the honor of a lifetime to devote...

The baby found abandoned on the sidewalk in Chelsea is so new to the world, its umbilical cord was still attached when he was found without a blanket or even a diaper by a homeless man and doorman in a shocking discovery in the middle of the night. The newborn’s mother was later charged. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield...

Erica Byfield reports.

A newborn baby was found abandoned in front of a Chelsea building early Thursday morning, FDNY sources tell NBC New York. A team of paramedics was finishing their shift around 3:15 a.m. when a building doorman knocked on their vehicle’s window to alert them to a newborn child in front of 515 West 23rd Street, across from an Emergency Medical…

Family members said that 77-year-old Maria Soledad Taveras and her 74-year-old husband Luciano Taveras lived in their Washington Heights apartment for decades, but they couldn’t get out when a fire broke out Tuesday morning. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Two people died when a fire engulfed a six-story apartment building in Manhattan early Tuesday, authorities say. Firefighters responded to the building on 178th Street in Washington Heights after getting a call about a three-alarm fire shortly before 2 a.m. They found the fire on the sixth floor. It had also spread to the floor below. A 77-year-old woman, later...