The victim is the latest elderly New Yorker to die in a fire in the last couple months, a string of more than a dozen deaths.

The fire broke out inside her first-floor apartment on 80th St. near 37th Ave. in Jackson Heights about 5:10 a.m. Thursday.

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner, and Elon Musk criticized her qualifications ...

News 4 has learned Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will select longtime FDNY vet Lillian Bonsignore to run the city’s fire ...

A spokesperson for the mayor said the timing was not intended to overshadow Mamdani’s announcement just minutes later.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani defended his new appointee after Elon Musk called out the fire chief’s lack of “experience.” The soon-to-be sworn-in mayor fired back […] ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Lillian Bonsignore as the next FDNY commissioner at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Friday slammed New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) for appointing a non-firefighter to ...