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Reports on the efforts of an immigrant family from El Salvador to cope with the aftermath of a fire that hit the apartment building in which the family was residing in Queens, New York City, on December 15, 2004. Extent of the injuries that Alex Sandoval and his daughters suffered as a result of the fire; Reaction of Sandoval's employer to news of his accident.

Reports that a Rikers Island, New York, correction officer was shot dead at a party in a hotel room. Details of the incident.

Reports on a fatal shooting involving an off-duty police officer that occurred in Brooklyn, New York City, on September 15, 2004. Placement of officer Javier V. Colon on a modified assignment pending an investigation into the incident; Details of the shooting; Accidental discharge of Colon's service pistol; Description of the victim, George Perez.

Reports that on the death of Luis Mina, a worker in his 30s, following the collapse of a 12- to 15-foot-deep trench for a sewer line in Brooklyn, New York City.

The article reports on the unnoticed death of Christina Copeman who lived in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. Neighbors of Copeman claim she stopped socializing after her husband died in the year 1990. Copeman's nephew, Peter Bishop, requested the Brooklyn Police Department check on her and they forced their way in and found her body on the floor. The Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, claimed there were no calls to Copeman's address in the last several months.

The article reports on the explosion in an apartment building on 10 West 119th Street in Harlem, New York on Saturday October 6, 2007. Five members of the Alghaithi family, a mother and her four daughters, were in critical condition at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Officials believe gas leaking from a connection behind the stove caused the explosion that also injured an additional 20 people. Details are given from representatives of the Con Edison company.

The article reports on the fire which killed three members from three generations of a Haitian family on East 19th Street in Brooklyn, New York. Twelve year old Bengino Dodard was the only one who spoke English and called 911 before returning to help his family. Dodard, Marie Valmey Vixama, grandmother and family matriarch and Crismene Vixama, one of her daughters, died in the blaze. The injuries sustained by other members of the family as well as the cause of the fire are discussed.

This article describes how a worker was killed and two others injured in a explosion in a Brooklyn, New York home in which they were working. The men were working in the basement of the home of Joseph and Tzipora Friedman when the spray for a waterproofing agent ignited causing an explosion which blew out several windows and buckled a wall in the house. Mrs. Friedman had just walked into another room when the blast occurred and was uninjured. Antonio Tapia was killed in the blast.

The article reports that Tafari James, an eight-year-old boy, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, also eight years old. James released a school bus' emergency break in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York City on May 22, 2006. Sadiq was crushed between the rolling bus and a street pole. A description of the hearing held on May 23, 2006 is included.

The article reports on Stella Correa, an elderly woman who died in an apartment fire in New York City. Correa died after a cigarette she was smoking set her apartment on fire. Correa lived in St. Brendan's, an apartment building for the elderly and disabled in Brooklyn, where she lived with a personal assistant.

This article discusses confusion over school hours in New York City public schools for tutoring sessions supplied under a teacher's contract. Time changes to school hours under this contract have left many parents frustrated and has caused transportation problems for students. Tutoring sessions will require students struggling academically to stay late after school to work in small groups with teachers. Some parents believe that this system will only help students in schools that do not have problems with overcrowding. New York Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg support the contract, and believe that extra time at the end of the school day for specialized instruction will help struggling students.

Reports that a Brooklyn teen, Ronald Petgrave, was fatally shot outside a birthday party for his 16-year-old friend, Tiara Hardy. Jamal Simon was wounded in the gunfire at 62 East 52nd Street in Remsen Village. It is reported that guests were checked for weapons at the door. Information about Ronald includes his aspiration to be a rapper.

The article reports that the bodies of Ashante Mitchell and another woman were discovered in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The apartment belonged to Antoine Twitty. There have been no arrests, and police would not discuss the murder investigation. Comments are made by the landlord of the apartment, Marvin Odums.

Focuses on New York City which has a network of coastal evacuation routes in case of hurricanes. How a category three hurricane could impact the financial district, Kennedy International Airport, southern Brooklyn, and eastern Staten Island; Indication that the city has sent search-and-rescue workers to Mississippi; The effort of a New York City team of emergency planners to learn from the Gulf Coast disaster; Reception centers and flood zones identified by the city's Office of Emergency Management; Disaster plans and location of three evacuation zones.

Reports two Narcotics Division detectives were suspended for being drunk on the job during the Puerto Rican Day Parade. The civilian complaint against Edmond Olivacce and Bernard Dixon; Background on the two police officers; Investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Focuses on a nine-year-old girl in New York city who killed her 11-year-old friend by stabbing her in the chest with a steak knife. Details of the incident; Comments of the girl's baby sitter and neighbors who live in the building; Reference to the girl's violent outbursts; How the girl has been taken to a juvenile detention center and will be formally charged with manslaughter.

Mentions Kleinfeld Bridal, a wedding-gown store in Brooklyn, will move to Manhattan this summer. Information about the strip known as Bridal Row; Comment of Mike Mustafa, owner of a tailor shop; Background on Kleinfeld's co-owner, Ronald Rothstein, and the store's expansion; How the closing will affect the Bay Ridge neighborhood; Comment of Alice Sena, owner of Sposabella Couture.

Reports on the deaths of two students from McMechen, West Virginia, and the father of one of them, who died along with the pilot in a plane crash in New York City. Impromptu ceremony at their high school; Deaths of students JoBeth Marie Gross, 18, Danielle Block, 18, Danielle's father, William Courtney Block, and pilot Endrew Allen of Jamaica, Queens; How the small sightseeing plane crashed on the beach in Coney Island; Plans for an inquiry into the crash; Impact of the accident on the close-knit West Virginia coal-mining community; Information on the victims.

Focuses on changes to the drawings that appear in "The New Yorker." How, starting with the magazine's 80th anniversary issue, these quirky illustrations will have narratives; Observation that most readers have not noticed that the drawings share a running theme or tell microstories; Comments of David Remnick, the magazine's editor; and Caroline Mailhot, art director for the magazine; Why the new spots were slipped in without fanfare.

The article features Emmanuel Morantus, a 73 year old pulmonary arterial hypertension patient from New York. It states that Morantus retired in 2007 after being exploited by the son of his boss after working three jobs, he installs coffee grinding machines, he drove a taxi at night, and he worked in an electrical factory to support his family. Moreover, Nathan Krasnovsky, director of a charitable institution knew his condition and paid his bills and now maintaining his medication expenses.

The tangled case of the Long Island man who was feared drowned last weekend in the waters off Jones Beach -- but who turned up speeding down the highway in South Carolina five days later -- took a new twist on Friday, when his wife said he had staged it all without her knowledge. The man, Raymond Roth, 47, an unemployed telecommunications manager from Massapequa, was reported missing from the beach by his son, Jonathan, 22, touching off an exhaustive air, water and land search by the police and other agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While interning two years ago at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Karen Orlando would often gaze longingly from the roof of her apartment building in Prospect Heights to a lot below on Sterling Place. The three-quarter-acre site where a parking garage had once stood had degenerated into an empty, dirt-filled tract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amanda Cummings was not shy about her interests: animals and poetry, shopping and Katy Perry music, summer afternoons by the swimming pool and excursions to Manhattan, where she hoped to live some day. But in the days and weeks before her death, her family said, Amanda, 15, often concealed what some friends seemed to know: she was being bullied, in person and on Facebook, by peers from her Staten Island high school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fire ignited by careless smoking in bed swept through a Brooklyn row house on Thursday, critically injuring a child and a woman and hurting three others, including a man who broke a third-floor window and scrambled, screaming, to a neighbor's awning for safety, officials and witnesses said. All those injured in the blaze, which began at the back of an apartment at 615 President Street in the Park Slope area, were later listed in stable condition, a police spokesman said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At 3:55 p.m. five days a week, Jeremiah Fox heads down the block from the Juice Box, a wine store he manages in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, and enters the Crossroads Cafe. He hastily folds up the cafe's outdoor seats, concealing them in a corner behind an attractive Chinese screen, and snaps together a three-piece portable bar. Unscrewing the cafe's basic light bulbs, he replaces them with soft accent bulbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An assemblyman from one of Brooklyn's most prominent political families struck a secret deal to use his influence in Albany on behalf of a hospital chief executive in return for a sham consulting job that paid him about $175,000, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday. The assemblyman, William F. Boyland Jr., ''demanded a no-show job to enrich himself,'' the prosecutor, William J. Harrington, told the jury as the politician's trial began in Federal District Court in Manhattan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When day broke on Wednesday in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the swarms of volunteers went home defeated, and the detritus of a frantic 36-hour search for a missing boy lay strewn by the curb. There were plastic water jugs, napkins and fliers outside the brick apartment building where Leiby Kletzky and his family lived on 15th Avenue, in the heart of the Hasidic neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Garbage is the new snow in New York City. Bags of trash tower on the sidewalks outside apartment buildings, while garbage cans left buried since the city's last pickup, on Christmas Eve, poke through dirty mounds of melting snow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 2-year-old Brooklyn boy died on Friday night after his bruised, listless body was discovered in his mother's apartment, and the death was later ruled a homicide, the authorities said. Reginald Williams, 31, a companion of the boy's mother, was arrested Saturday night and charged with second-degree murder. The mother, Teresa Foster, 27, was also arrested, on charges of assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon. Her charges stemmed from an assault with a belt earlier in the month, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two days after the bruised, emaciated body of a 4-year-old girl was discovered in a Brooklyn apartment, new information from officials emerged about her life and death as her mother on Saturday made her first appearance in court to face criminal charges. In a criminal complaint, prosecutors outlined a fearsome litany of abuse that they said the girl, Marchella Pierce, suffered in her final days at the hands of her mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30. The girl, who had been plagued by severe health problems since her birth on April 30, 2006, weighed 18 pounds when she died, according to the complaint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There was a certain where-am-I-now disorientation -- not as much as in the 1969 film ''If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium,'' perhaps, but enough to cause head-scratching and double takes. What happened to the V train? Why does the M seem to be going in a whole new direction? Where is the QM22? On Monday, the first weekday with major reductions in bus and subway service in New York, there was mostly a shared grin-and-bear-it attitude toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's reworking of schedules above ground and below. Commuters rearranged their routines and found new ways to go where the old familiar ones had taken them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A police officer shot and wounded a disabled man who was wielding a knife on a Brooklyn street after the man ignored orders to drop the weapon, shook off a blast of pepper spray and kept advancing, the police said on Saturday. The officer, who was in uniform, fired a single bullet that struck the man in the lower abdomen. A sergeant had first fired pepper spray in an attempt to defuse the encounter late Friday night, in a courtyard at 221 Linden Boulevard, between Rogers and Nostrand Avenues, in the East Flatbush neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A three-story brick building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that was being renovated collapsed on Monday afternoon, critically injuring a worker who was trapped in the rubble and leaving three other people with minor injuries, the Fire Department and witnesses said. The building, at 34 Conselyea Street, collapsed about 1:30 p.m., said Jeff Wilser, who lives two doors away and heard a boom. ''We thought it was a planned demolition,'' he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 23-year-old Bronx man was arrested on Sunday and charged with murdering his companion's 22-month-old daughter, the police said. The city medical examiner's office said she had been beaten to death. The man, Ramel Green of Clay Avenue, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of the toddler, Sanaa Brewington, who was found in her mother's apartment at 820 Colgate Avenue in the Bronx on Saturday, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A sport utility vehicle suddenly accelerated while backing up in a church parking lot in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, killing a woman and injuring four other people, including two children, the authorities said. The accident occurred at the Pyeong Ahn Presbyterian Church at 2407 McDonald Avenue in Gravesend about 2:45 p.m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A teenager's leg was severed by a train while he was in a Brooklyn subway tunnel on Saturday night, planning to paint graffiti with two other boys, the authorities said. The boy, 16, was in critical but stable condition Sunday at Lutheran Medical Center, the police said. The authorities did not release his name, but he was identified as Jose Juarez of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, by a cousin, Julio Ochoa, 13, who was with him in the subway tunnel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that he intends to sue a major New York landlord that he says harassed hundreds of tenants in rent-regulated apartments in Queens and Manhattan in a systematic effort to force their departure to create vacancies for higher-paying tenants. The landlord, Vantage Properties, routinely filed eviction notices and other legal actions against working-class and immigrant families in tenements that the company had recently acquired to generate ''substantial tenant turnover,'' investigators and tenant advocates said. But most of the legal notices, the attorney general said in a letter to Vantage, contained ''deceptive and misleading representations.'' Investigators said the majority of those notices were eventually rejected by the city's housing courts, although the company denied that. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 24-year-old man fatally stabbed his companion and her two young daughters in their Brooklyn home, wrapped them in garbage bags, and waited at least a day before calling his father in the Bronx to tell what he had done, the authorities said Friday. About 1 p.m., two officers from the 67th Precinct arrived at a second-floor apartment at 728 Rogers Avenue where the man, identified by the police as Jermaine Ruiz, lives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An 18-year-old Queens man was fatally shot by the police late Saturday after he pointed a loaded pistol toward three plainclothes officers who were pursuing him, the authorities said. The man, Dashawn Vasconcellos, ran from the officers when they tried to question him and two other young men, the authorities said. According to the police, the officers had seen the men leaving Bayswater Park in Far Rockaway about 11:30 p.m., after the park had closed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Shaking as two relatives helped her onto a sofa, Rose Danielle Etienne, 26, sobbed Thursday afternoon as she spoke of a fire that had swept through her apartment in Brooklyn the day before, killing her longtime companion and their two young sons. ''All three is dead; I'm all by myself,'' Ms. Etienne said. ''Why this happen to me? I'm not going to see them anymore. I can't take this. This is painful.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two fire trucks racing to the same emergency crashed on a rain-slicked Brooklyn street on Saturday morning, leaving more than a dozen firefighters injured as one of the big vehicles flipped onto its side, pinning its driver inside the wreckage, officials said. It took more than two hours for emergency responders to extricate the trapped driver, Robert Puppa, from the crushed cab of his ladder truck. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A reputed soldier for the Gambino crime family was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for his role in the killings of four people in New York. But it was a fifth killing, which resulted in a hung jury, that drew the biggest crowd. Squeezing into benches alongside some of the victims' family members, more than 40 uniformed court officers filed into federal court in Brooklyn, seeking closure to the fatal shooting in 1976 of Albert Gelb, a highly decorated court officer. Officer Gelb, 27, was killed in his car four days before he was scheduled to testify in a gun case against the mob figure, Charles Carneglia, 63. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]