Smoke billowed over Manhattan after a fire broke out at a luxury apartment building in New York on Thursday. The fire started around 11:30 a.m. ET in the Hudson Yards high-rise, the New York Fire Department said in a statement to USA TODAY. The FDNY said the fire was controlled by 12:11 p.m.

A fire on the roof of a 44-story luxury apartment building sent plumes of dark smoke into the New York City skyline on Thursday.

New York plans to revive a $9 congestion mitigation charge for driving in Manhattan starting in January that the state indefinitely put on hold earlier this year, Governor Kathy Hochul said on Thursday.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at a press conference during the Jennings Creek wildfire in the town of Greenwood Lake in New York, U.S., November 12, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday plans to announce the state plans to revive a congestion charge in Manhattan that she indefinitely put on hold in June,

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is resurrecting plans to implement congestion pricing that will hike tolls to enter downtown Manhattan, but the new program faces an uncertain future with Republicans vowing to kill the program.

Nearly four dozen firefighters were deployed to battle a brush fire in the Inwood section of Manhattan on Wednesday.

Plumes of smoke blanketed the tip of Manhattan from the three-alarm Inwood Hill fire, fueled by bone-dry conditions and gusty winds.