A spokesperson with the New York City Fire Department confirmed the incident happened at a New York City Housing Authority complex in Brooklyn. Both the FDNY and the New York City Police Department received calls around noon local time on Wednesday. According to police, the 5-year-old child was playing with a toy when he fell out of the window.

Hazmat teams have been deployed to a federal government building in New York City after envelopes containing a mysterious white powder were discovered, authorities said. Just before 4 p.m. on Thursday, the New York City Fire Department received a report of white powder on the 9th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, a spokesperson told The Independent.

Two NYPD officers working on one of the city’s new Quality of Life teams in Brooklyn lived up to their job title this week when they jumped into a raging fire, and rescued two brothers and a

Two of the three people killed in a bar shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn were among the four shooters who opened fire inside the building, the city's police commissioner said Monday.

A shooting in Times Square, New York City, injured three people, including a 65-year-old, a 19-year-old, and an 18-year-old. A teen male suspect has been taken into custody.

At least three people were killed in an early Sunday shooting at a crowded nightclub in Brooklyn, New York, police said. Officers responding to an emergency call found 11 people with gunshot wounds inside the Taste of the City Lounge,

Video shared on social media showed thick black smoke in the air rising near apartment buildings on East 95th Street on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. There have so far been no reports of injuries.

At 9 a.m. Tuesday, about a dozen members of FDNY Ladder 3 & Battalion 6 in Union Square shook Chief Steve Marsar’s hand, hugged him and congratulated him on retiring after a 35-year career as a New York City firefighter.