Shayla Colon

Anthony Sciortino, a detective in Staten Island, was also charged with falsifying police records in what prosecutors said was a “brazen act of misconduct.”

Seuk Kim was transporting three rescue dogs from Maryland to Albany, N.Y., when his plane crashed in the Catskill Mountains. Two of the dogs managed to survive.

For the 98th time, Macy’s brings New Yorkers its annual parade. This year, there will be 22 floats, 17 character balloons and performances by the Temptations and T-Pain.

Anything is on the table for a general assignment reporter in New York. Still, a series of brush fires in the city and a big blaze upstate were far from expected.

On Sunday, Angel Lata Landi, a construction worker, called his mother in Ecuador, whom he helped support. The next day, he was one of three people stabbed to death on the street in Manhattan.

Washington Heights and Inwood were the scene of deadly feuds that began six years ago after a killing. Thursday’s charges were just the latest in a series of gang takedowns.

The blaze in the park, at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the past week.

A volunteer firefighter on Long Island was arrested after the police said he intentionally set a brush fire. The New York area has contended with numerous fires during an unusually dry fall.

New Yorkers encountered an unsettling smell on Saturday, a day after fires broke out in Prospect Park and across the Hudson River.

Brush Fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Burns 2 Acres