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An Air Canada Express regional jet collided with a Port Authority fire truck after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the plane’s two pilots, injuring dozens and shutting down all flights at the airport until at least 2 p.m. today, officials said. As reported in THE NY TIMES, the disruption at one of the United States’ busiest domestic airports was expected to ripple across the region and the nation at the start of the workweek, with hundreds of flights canceled as of this morning. New York City officials urged drivers to avoid the area around LaGuardia, warning of road closures and traffic delays.

As reported in NEWSDAY, two pilots have been killed in the crash between a regional Air Canada plane and a firefighting vehicle late last night on a LaGuardia Airport runway. The crash happened at about 11:40 p.m. Sunday, when a Jazz Aviation flight, operating on behalf of Air Canada, struck a Port Authority firefighting and rescue vehicle that had been responding to a separate incident, the Port Authority said in a statement. In addition to the two pilots, who were killed, 41 people aboard the plane were hospitalized in the crash between the Air Canada plane and the Port Authority vehicle, according to the Port Authority's executive director Kathryn Garcia. Thirty-two people have been released, Garcia said. In addition to the 41, a sergeant and a Port Authority police officer are in stable condition, she said.

Terminal B was quieter than usual just after 6 o’clock this morning, as its usual bustling check-in and security lines were nonexistent.

Dozens of tired travelers sat on benches surrounded by their luggage, unsure of their next move.

As of 5:30 a.m., more than 500 flights into and out of LaGuardia have been canceled today, according to the website FlightAware.

There are roughly 1,000 flights a day, according to statistics posted by the Port Authority, which runs LaGuardia and the region's other major airports.

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The lobster shacks are still closed for the season in the Hamptons, and the privet hedges are still nestled in their winter burlap. But calendars are filling up fast for private chefs catering to the millionaires and billionaires who descend in summer. Dionne Searcey reports in THE NY TIMES that Licia Householder, a private chef based in Sag Harbor, has started reaching out to Hamptons clients who may be craving her exquisite dishes to let them know she is already booked for nearly every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

“Winter has been so rough, everyone is clamoring to be out here,” said Ms. Householder, who will be cooking for dinner parties, birthday bashes and meals over long weekends for clients headed to the South Fork of Long Island.

The rich are getting even richer in America, and in the Hamptons, where home prices have hit record highs, the wealthy want workers who can trim the hedges, clean the pools and tidy the guesthouses.

And outsourcing much or all of the cooking has become a staple in the area, where privacy is paramount, traffic is terrible and for those who do dare to venture out, tables at even midrange restaurants are booked solid.

“When the season rolls around on the east end, it turns into an ultracompetitive environment where everyone wants the same thing at the same time,” said Jacob Frisch, co-founder of FF Global, an advisory firm that manages the luxury lifestyle demands of ultrahigh-net-worth individuals and their families.

“It’s like the hunger games for private chefs,” he said.

Staffing agencies and chefs alike say the demand to secure a cook this year seems to have started particularly early.

Rates vary, depending on the chef and the type of work. Some chefs can earn $50,000 for the season. Some with their own business charge around $175 an hour or more, plus the price of groceries.

Housing for chefs who aren’t local and aren’t offered a room can be complicated because summer rents are sky-high. Some staffing agencies offer shared housing. The work itself can be stressful, with clients making last-minute changes to menus and late additions of extra dinner guests, both of which can require exasperating trips to grocery stores on traffic-clogged roadways.

Dana Minuta, a chef who works in the Hamptons and other wealthy enclaves, said chefs must be friendly without being nosy. Nondisclosure agreements are common.

“When you’re in a kitchen in a billionaire’s home, you have to know how to be quiet and how to behave,” said Ms. Minuta, the author of “The Billionaire Kitchen: Secrets from the World’s Most Exclusive Tables.”

Kitchens must be spotless, and the operation must be meticulous.

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An energy and technology company on Shinnecock Indian Nation land has formed a joint venture with a Canadian telecommunications firm to launch a broadband center to offer low-cost internet access, service and manufacturing, officials said. Mark Harrington reports in NEWSDAY that Shinnecock-based Waa Nee Shee Energy LLC formed the venture in February with Mage Networks of Calgary, Alberta, to launch the center, which promises to share technology, manufacturing and workforce development as the partnership pursues broadband internet throughout the region, including beyond the tribal territory which is between Southampton Village and Hampton Bays. It’s Mage’s first entry into the New York market.

Phil Brown, president of Waa Nee Shee Energy, said his hope is to bring the center to the nation’s territory and employ up to a dozen Shinnecock members to work there. He estimated the cost of the service at between $40 and $60 a month. Brown also serves as housing director for the Shinnecock Nation, which is not affiliated with his private company.

The venture would make Waa Nee Shee Energy an internet service provider, or ISP, integrating equipment for use at some of the more than 700 homes that could sign up to receive the signals with tribal government approval, which remains pending. Brown said the plan, which still requires initial grant funding of about $500,000, is to base the center on the nation's territory, but eventually to offer the service to surrounding underserved communities.

The service also would operate as an intranet, linking Shinnecock members within the community, and provide for a range of telecom, internet and streaming services, if the Shinnecock government approves such a relationship.

It also would provide workforce training and employment for both Shinnecock members and those from surrounding communities, Brown said.

Waa Nee Shee officials foresee construction of a 10,000-square-foot building on the territory to start operations and envision additional locations outside the reservation. It is partnering with Ignite Long Island, a nonprofit manufacturing trade group, to help secure funding for the operation, Brown said.

The Shinnecock nation has already been awarded a federal grant of about $8 million to bring high-speed fiber connections to tribal facilities and homes on the reservation. Brown said that with the new wireless internet service, the center could save the nation money by building out the fiber optic network and using Mage’s signals for wireless connections to individual homes without disturbing ground.