One person died and 14 people were injured as a fire tore through a building in the Bronx on Wednesday, the FDNY said. Firefighters responded to the five-story building on East 209th Street, between ...

Eileen Bellew, who has a home in Spring Lake, shares her story of raising a family after her firefighter husband's 2005 death ...

Every September, national ceremonies honor the 343 New York City firefighters who died in the World Trade Center attacks. However, for the first responders who survived, the act of remembering is a ...

Phil McArdle survived the Sept. 11 attacks as an FDNY firefighter. Mike Kelly shares his story in his new book, "After Ground ...

History is often remembered through the images captured after something extraordinary has already happened. Yet photographs taken immediately before a major event can be even more powerful, preserving ...

Welcome to another installment in the Rag’s Historical Photo Challenge. The image above was taken somewhere on the Upper West Side, sometime in the past. Can you figure out where, when, and what it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I wrote a post about the commonly romanticized historical eras that were actually a lot more messed up than people ...

Recently, I wrote a post about the commonly romanticized historical eras that were actually a lot more messed up than people realize. And one of the top responses on that post was the 1920s, otherwise ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— A retired city firefighter is standing trial on Staten Island for charges of burglary and assault, after an incident last year involving his wife and a local middle school teacher ...

California’s parks tell many different stories about our state. Some protect natural landscapes and provide places for outdoor recreation. Others conserve the buildings and landscapes that reveal how ...

TROY — The restoration of the historic American Theater on River Street is expected to be complete by winter, officials announced Thursday during a celebratory ribbon-cutting for the project. The ...