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Greater than 100 firefighters and emergency personnel battled a multi-alarm hearth that broke out inside a historic Brooklyn church Wednesday morning. The hearth broke out within the Pentecostal church Arca Cristiana situated at Halsey Avenue, between Central and Wilson avenues, simply after 10:30 a.m. in Bushwick, based on the FDNY. The hearth apparently began on the primary flooring, based on hearth officers, and would finally unfold to convey the bell tower and second flooring degree down because of this. There have been no reported accidents, the fireplace division stated, including that 25 models totaling 106 hearth and EMS personnel are…
Even after asserting his retirement as head of the MTA on the day the Second Avenue Subway opened in 2017, Tom Prendergast figured he may not be finished with transit megaprojects.“In the back of my mind, I always knew that if an opportunity availed itself, I was going to take advantage of it,” Prendergast informed THE CITY Wednesday. Now the previous MTA chief govt — who additionally led New York Metropolis Transit and the Lengthy Island Rail Street throughout greater than 20 years with North America’s largest public-transit authority — has one other mammoth challenge on his plate as the brand…