A former after-school program employee brought metal knuckles to a New York City public school and placed them in a student backpack. He later retrieved the illegal weapon by identifying the student using surveillance footage, calling the student’s mother and personally retrieving the knuckles from the student’s home. Administrators at Astor Collegiate Academy in the
The raging inferno broke out around 6:44 p.m. on the first floor of a residential building on Dongan Avenue between Poyer Street and Broadway in Elmhurst, according to the fire department....