A kitchen fire ripped through a luxury high-rise on the Upper East Side early Tuesday, injuring 22 people, including an infant and four firefighters, officials said. The blaze initially erupted inside the kitchen of an apartment on the 24th floor of the 41-story condominium at 515 East 72nd shortly before 2 a.m., but quickly spread, thanks to an open apartment door, officials said. The apartment’s occupants — who neighbors say are both doctors — tried to flee, but passed out in the hallway...

A 31-year-old woman was viciously slashed while panhandling at the 125th Street subway station, cops said Tuesday. The cash-strapped commuter was standing on the southbound platform of the 4,5,6 line at around 10:30 p.m. Monday when she asked an unidentified man for a dollar, police said. The man suddenly became agitated and stuck her twice in the face with a black object and then fled, according to cops. It’s unclear whether he offered up any money before the encounter became violent, cops...

Three snowplows caught fire outside a storage facility at John F. Kennedy Airport, police said Tuesday. The fire started just before 10 p.m. Monday behind a storage facility on Bergen Road, according to the Port Authority Police Department. The vehicles are owned by Cow Bay, a snow removal service and contractor for the airport, police said. The fire was extinguished around 11:30 p.m., and there were no injuries or structural damage to the building, authorities said. Cow Bay was not...

Video posted online shows the exact moment “Mad” Mike Hughes’ homemade rocket came crashing down to Earth after a failed launch attempt, killing the self-styled daredevil. The video, posted to Twitter by Justin Chapman, a freelance journalist who witnessed and recorded the fatal crash, begins by showing the self-made rocket seconds before it takes off from a guide rail attached to a large white truck in Barstow, California. Dust and sand fill the air as the rocket launches into the sky, and...

A Milwaukee beer company’s corporate office turned into a bloody nightmare Wednesday when a disgruntled worker fired earlier in the day returned with a gun to kill five workers before shooting himself. Police were called to the sprawling Molson Coors Beverage Co. complex on West Highland Avenue just after 2 p.m. local time to find the worst mass shooting in Wisconsin’s history, as employees learned via email eight minutes later there was an active shooter lurking in their stairwell, the...