An NYPD cop bizarrely decided to take a jump shot in back of a Queens home while a fire raged on its top floor ... officer threw up a long-range air ball in the yard of the still-burning three ...

With the fire ongoing and winds shifting north, some of the wildfire smoke will make it to the New York City area and Long Island on Thursday. Air Quality ... Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million-acre ...