More Minorities Pass New FDNY Entrance Exam
More than 40 percent of the applicants who passed the latest New York fire department exam are minorities.
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More than 40 percent of the applicants who passed the latest New York fire department exam are minorities.
Police released a sketch of the suspect, who authorities said fled the bus after the stabbing, on Monday evening.
After viewing CBS's coverage of the Tunnel To Towers Run, a businessman donated nearly half a million dollars to the Tunnel To Towers Foundation.
9/11 made sports seem so trivial yet titanic in one breath. 9/11 wasn't just about a plane and a building, and Piazza's fly ball was about more than putting a crooked number up on the scoreboard.
Major League Baseball will stage on-field tributes prior to every game on Tuesday, 11 years after the 9/11 attacks on the the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The Tour Of Duty ride began on Aug. 12. The 40 participants pedalled nearly 3,000 miles, dedicating each mile to a victim of the 9/11 terror attacks.
This year, Wright met with firefighters at Squad 18 in Greenwich Village.
At every funeral and memorial service for the 343 New York City firefighters killed on 9/11, there has been one constant - the FDNY's Emerald Society Pipes and Drums.
The department on Tuesday will post messages on Twitter once an hour for each NYPD victim with links to individual memorial Facebook pages.
A pair of powerful, funnel-shaped clouds landed in New York City on Saturday. At first, nobody was really sure what to call them.
Players will wear the hats of city agencies during batting practice and the national anthem. New York began the tradition following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
A dozen people had to be rescued by firefighters, as a four-story home in Brooklyn went up in flames around 2:15 Monday morning. The fire consumed a home on Carroll Street just off Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights.
Two dozen cyclists have been crossing the country for the past couple of weeks as part of the Tour of Duty Ride.
It is a presence at every major fire department event, be it graduations, promotions, or a ship christening.
In keeping with his Catholic upbringing and Jesuit education, Yonkers firefighter Patrick Joyce was truly a man for others. Now his community is giving back in his honor.
A spark quickly turned into an inferno in Queens on Tuesday night. One home was engulfed in flames, while nearby families were evacuated.
Someone turned up the heat in Studio 46. Three calendar boys from the FDNY's Calendar of Heroes made an appearance on The Couch.
The calendar is produced annually to raise money for fire prevention programs.
84 firefighters responded to a report of a smoke condition on the 88th floor.
The 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide hole, which occurred around 6 p.m., is located between 4th and 5th avenues in the Bay Ridge.
The loophole covers more than 600 buildings, including the Jacob Javits Convention Center, hospitals, youth centers and offices, plus state-owned buildings leased out to restaurants and stores.
The roar of a Harley-Davidson, the open road, and the wind in your hair. For a group of New York City firefighters, this is not your typical vacation.
At least 18 apartments are considered to be a total loss, Smith reported. The other apartments in the building have water damage.
It took 200 firefighters and 54 units more than 15 hours to battle the blaze at the old commercial building on Atlantic Street in Cypress Hills.
The fire started shortly after 3 p.m. in a vacant, 2-story factory on Fulton Street in East New York.
