A fire on the roof of a 44-story luxury apartment building sent plumes of dark smoke into the New York City skyline on Thursday.

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 FDNY has responded to 229 brush fires in the city in the last two weeks, the highest ever in a two-week period. Overnight, firefighters were battling a wildfire in Upper Manhattan. FOX 5 NY's Haley Fixler has the latest from Inwood Park.

A brush fire at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan broke out again overnight, but firefighters had it back under control before daybreak.

A brush fire east of New York Penn Station has spurred power outages for Amtrak trains running to and from New Haven, Connecticut, prompting lengthy delays for passengers.

Services have resumed after a transformer fire in the Bronx impacted Amtrak trains that run between Union Station in New Haven and New York City.

Amtrak service between New York Penn Station and New Haven is expected to be suspended until Wednesday afternoon after a fire on the tracks in the Bronx scrambled trains on Tuesday. “Amtrak personnel are currently assessing and repairing damages done to the tracks,