NEW YORK — A Thanksgiving Day electrical fire that started in a manhole on a Brooklyn street quickly engulfed a vehicle parked above it — then caused flames to erupt in a fourth-floor ...

Explosion NYC: Panic ensues after manhole explodes in New York There was panic in Times Square on Sunday after a loud bang from a manhole explosion sent people running.

"Our biggest problem is the wind," Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said. "It is driving this fire." New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were ...