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The Citibank fire on 111th street and Broadway was still smoldering from a hole in the street on Sunday morning

A five-alarm fire consumed a building housing a Citibank at 111th street and Broadway starting very early on Saturday morning. Seven people were injured, an

A woman walking her dog on West 73rd street in the wee hours of Monday morning was hit by ice that had

A fire broke out on the fifth floor of a six-story apartment building at 254 West 82nd street on Tuesday afternoon, FDNY tells us.

Sandwich shop Lenny's on 98th street and Broadway filled with fire and smoke on Tuesday morning after a bagel boiler ignited in the basement at around 7:55 a.m.

West Side Rag reader Carla Fisher took the video below of bagpipes belting out "Amazing Grace" Wednesday morning the annual commemoration of New York City firefighters who have died in the line of duty. The event is held at the Firemen's Memorial on 100th street and Riverside Drive. (The sound ...

A helicopter made an emergency landing in the Hudson River near 79th street on Sunday morning, and all five passengers made it out safely. The 'copter was reportedly showing a family of Swedish tourists

A fire in an apartment on the 29th floor of the building at 180 West End Avenue (69th street) drew 20 units and 78 firefighters Monday night. The fire was called in at 6:13 p.m., and was under control by 7:07, an FDNY spokesman told us. The apartment was apparently ...

Five people, including three firefighters, were injured in a blaze at 216 West 100th Street on Sunday afternoon at around 2:30 p.m.. Sixty firefighters were sent to battle the fire, and they used

Two nasty accidents occurred on the Upper West Side late on Sunday.

Almost the entire contents of a second-floor apartment at 112 West 74th Street fell to the ground as firefighters worked to put out a fire there this weekend. The furniture and other household items landed in the rear courtyard of the building. It was unclear what sparked the fire, but ...

A fire that broke out in a top-floor apartment of a 27-story building at 70 West 95th Street in the wee hours of the morning Monday resulted in a pretty huge response: 20 units and more than 80 firefighters battled the blaze. The call came in at 2:42 a.m. and ...

Two car fires erupted on the Upper West Side in the past 24 hours. In the early morning on Tuesday, a car burst into flames at 318 West 100th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, after a fire that appeared to have been sparked by burning garbage. The ...

By Eric Schaeffer I've lived on the Upper West Side for 50 years, splitting that time between 3 apartments:  102nd and Riverside, 112th and Riverside, and 96th and Amsterdam. I love my neighborhood and will never leave it.  I know people here, and now know their sons and daughters. Shop ...

A fire that broke out Tuesday night on 94th Street and Amsterdam Avenue injured three people, and took firefighters more than two hours to put out. The fire started on a third floor balcony at 711 Amsterdam Avenue and was called in at 6:33 p.m. About 60 firefighters showed up, ...

The photo above, by Malcolm Carter, is of a dryer fire in a fifth-floor apartment at 46 West 96th Street that was reported at 12:43 p.m. on Wednesday. A firefighter suffered minor injuries and was taken to St. Luke's Roosevelt hospital. The fire was out by 1:11 p.m. January 12, ...

The Upper West Side has had its taste of mayhem this weekend. On Friday night, a manhole exploded on West 76th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue around 9:20 p.m., a local resident told blog My Upper West. The air was "thick with the smell of burning rubber ...