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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 ...