The Inwood Hill Park fire was among the latest in an unusually high number of brush fires and wildfires to erupt in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, as the region contends with unseasonably ...

Brush fire damage inside Inwood Hill Park near Payson Ave. and Beak St. in Manhattan on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) “We had many challenges due to the ...