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EBO HILL MANSION NBC NEWS -- A historic estate on Long Island was destroyed in a fire Monday night, according to authorities. The Ebo Hill mansion, on Edgewood Avenue in Smithtown, was gutted in the blaze about 8 p.m., officials said. A cause for the blaze wasn't immediately available, but the fire comes just weeks after a prospective owner told Newsday that he was going to restore the 11,000-square-foot home to "look like it did the day it was new." It's not clear if the sale had been completed.

NYU Langone Fire NEW YORK -- Flames were shooting from the roof of a New York City hospital building that’s under construction. The Fire Department of New York was at the scene of a construction fire at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan. There were no  reports of injuries as of now. Some patients were being moved due to the smoke condition, which could be seen as far away as Hunters Point South in Queens. At one point the East River was engulfed in black smoke. Photo By: James Edstrom