Six people, including four children, were killed Wednesday when an overnight fire ravaged an apartment in a city-owned Harlem building, fire and police officials said.
Firefighters, who were called at around 1:40 a.m., moved aggressively into the flames and thick smoke and found a man and a woman, as well as two girls and two boys ages 3 to 11, in bedrooms of the fifth-floor apartment, according to Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.

Congress won’t be seeing President Donald Trump’s tax returns any time soon, but that request isn’t the only way Democrats are trying to pry them loose.
So far this year, lawmakers in at least 20 states have introduced bills that would require presidential candidates to release their tax returns as a condition for appearing on the state ballot.

Police say a Long Island driver used a dummy tactic to try to take advantage of a carpool lane.
Suffolk County police say something about the front-seat passenger in a Saturn sedan raised Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Spina’s suspicions Monday on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills.

The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens will open to traffic in September.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the end date Monday during a visit to the worksite.
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Just five days after suffering serious injuries in a fall from a second floor window in a Spring Valley home, two young brothers returned home on Tuesday evening.
As YWN reported last week, the two boys, ages 5 and 2, were leaning on a screen in a window which gave way, leading to their fall. 

In a time when anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head both in the city and around the county, it’s painful when it comes from an NYPD Traffic Agent.
A motorist contacted YWN and told us that he was on 57th Street and Park Avenue at 6:00PM Tuesday night, trying to get into the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

In a show of interfaith unity, faith leaders from across the city gathered on the steps of City Hall Tuesday afternoon to call for security funding for houses of worship.
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Faith leaders from around New York state plan to gather at the state Capitol to denounce solitary confinement of prisoners.
The organizers behind Tuesday’s event say they’ll bring together clergy from several different faiths to call on lawmakers to abolish solitary imprisonment, which they say is a cruel practice that leaves life-long psychological scars.

According to the NYC health Department, as of today, 466 cases of measles have been confirmed since the beginning of the outbreak last October.

An NYPD Officer from the “Mounted Division” was thrown off his horse in Queens on Tuesday.
Sources tell YWN that the bizarre incident occurred on Queens Boulevard near 78 Avenue.
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