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Windows were smashed out and the facade was charred on the top floor of 2910 Wallace Avenue.

Landlord of Burned Bronx Building Sued to Stop Heat Monitoring

Jan. 14, 2025, 5:17 p.m.Jan. 14, 2025, 5:40 p.m.

Ved Parkash had 10 properties put in a city housing agency program to track temperatures in chronically cold apartments. One just caught fire, leaving more than 250 homeless.

An e-bike rider had an extra battery stored on their cycle.

FDNY

Mayor’s Call to Report Bad Bike Batteries to 311 Led to Dead Ends

Jan. 9, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 22, 2025, 12:25 p.m.

Nearly two years after Eric Adams and his fire commissioner urged New Yorkers to file complaints about suspected flammable charging devices with a city hotline, obstacles abound.

Several windows where smashed out in a Hamilton Heights building where journalist Fazil Khan died in a fire.

e-bikes

Before Harlem Blaze that Killed Journalist Fazil Khan, Neighbors Complained About E-Bike Batteries

Dec. 30, 2024, 3:32 p.m.Dec. 30, 2024, 3:32 p.m.

Fire Marshal reports obtained by THE CITY suggest landlord and city agencies had ignored pleas to intervene — and that off-brand batteries from Amazon and eBay are a constant in fatal bike and scooter fires.

Public Safety

Ban on Off-Brand E-Bike Battery Sales Lands in Congress Budget Deal, Spurred by New York Tragedies

Dec. 18, 2024, 8:12 a.m.Dec. 18, 2024, 10:30 a.m.

Federal budget package includes long-delayed measure to prevent fires that have killed and injured hundreds, steered by Schumer, Gillibrand and Torres.

FDNY responded to a brush fire in Inwood Hill Park.

Department of Environmental Protection

NYC Escalates to Drought Warning as Upstate Reservoirs Fall to 60% Capacity

Nov. 18, 2024, 6:05 p.m.Nov. 21, 2024, 4:18 p.m.

Mayor Adams ordered city agencies to conserve water and urged residents to take shorter showers, report leaky fire hydrants and take other water-saving steps.

FDNY

Inwood Park Ablaze as Brush Fires Reach Historic Levels Across NYC

Nov. 13, 2024, 5:35 p.m.Nov. 13, 2024, 6:53 p.m.

Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, as the city reckons with an historically dry and fiery season.

NYPD officers monitor a pro-Gaza protest near the Stock Exchange.

Elections

Voter Guide: Ballot Question 4 Would Change the Input Process on Public Safety Laws

Oct. 15, 2024, 9:25 p.m.Oct. 15, 2024, 9:25 p.m.

The amendment was proposed after New York’s City Council overrode the mayor’s vetoes on laws that eliminate solitary confinement and mandate that police report on more of their encounters.

FDNY

FDNY Chief to Plead Guilty in Secret Kickbacks Case

Oct. 1, 2024, 11:53 a.m.Oct. 1, 2024, 11:53 a.m.

Brian Cordasco will accept plea offer, say prosecutors, in scheme involving payments to expedite fire safety inspections.

Eric Adams

LISTEN: Adams Tries To Turn the Corruption Probes Page and ‘Write My Own Story’

Sept. 16, 2024, 4:20 p.m.Sept. 16, 2024, 4:20 p.m.

The hits keep coming as Eric Adams’ chief counsel walked away, effective immediately, on Saturday night, an associate director of a mayor’s office got fired after he allegedly told a business member to pay off the former police commissioner’s brother, two former FDNY chiefs just got charged with corruption, another Democrat launched a run again […]

FDNY

Ex-Fire Chiefs Charged in Bribery Scheme Tied to City Hall Fast-Track List

Sept. 16, 2024, 1:07 p.m.Sept. 16, 2024, 1:58 p.m.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams calls case of payments in exchange for speeded up inspections “classic pay to play corruption.”

FDNY

Landlord of Burned Bronx Building Sued to Stop Heat Monitoring

Mayor’s Call to Report Bad Bike Batteries to 311 Led to Dead Ends

Before Harlem Blaze that Killed Journalist Fazil Khan, Neighbors Complained About E-Bike Batteries

Ban on Off-Brand E-Bike Battery Sales Lands in Congress Budget Deal, Spurred by New York Tragedies

NYC Escalates to Drought Warning as Upstate Reservoirs Fall to 60% Capacity

Inwood Park Ablaze as Brush Fires Reach Historic Levels Across NYC

Voter Guide: Ballot Question 4 Would Change the Input Process on Public Safety Laws

FDNY Chief to Plead Guilty in Secret Kickbacks Case

LISTEN: Adams Tries To Turn the Corruption Probes Page and ‘Write My Own Story’

Ex-Fire Chiefs Charged in Bribery Scheme Tied to City Hall Fast-Track List

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