NEW YORK-- A brush fire at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan broke out again overnight ... NYC sees record number of brush fires Tucker said the fire department has responded to more than 229 brush fires since Oct. 29, the highest amount in a two ...

A massive brush fire exacerbated by the city’s ongoing drought destroyed about four acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, FDNY officials said Thursday. The raging blaze, which began about 3 p.m. Wednesday, tore its way through about four acres of parkland near W. 218 St. as upper Manhattan was covered in thick grey smoke for most of the day.

The blaze in the park, at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the past week.