Bloomberg Calls Bombing Of Israelis Aboard Bulgaria Bus 'A Tragedy'
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was personally briefed by the Israeli ambassador about Wednesday's bombing and called the deadly attack "a tragedy."
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was personally briefed by the Israeli ambassador about Wednesday's bombing and called the deadly attack "a tragedy."
Forteau shouted his innocence as he was led away by authorities, saying "I never, ever stabbed anyone. I never attacked anyone first."
The off-duty agent was awoken by three suspects trying to break into a red Lexus outside his home, authorities said. He opened fire on the suspects, shooting at least one of them in the back.
The suspect is believed to be 29-years-old, about 5-feet-7-inches tall, weighing 160 pounds.
Authorities said the 20-year-old victim had just exited the cab and entered the vestibule area of apartment building on 30th Street and 34th Avenue when the driver of that cab followed her.
Since May, two men have been targeting straphangers on the No. 3 and C subway trains, demanding their valuables and threatening to shoot them, police said.
Monday's sentencing resolved, for now, the complicated legal case surrounding Michael Pena's off-duty attack on a woman heading to her first day at a new teaching job.
Estefani Hernandez-Castilla, 17, was last seen at her home on Ocean Avenue around 9:40 a.m. Saturday, police said. She is believed to have her 20-month-old daughter, Alison Acevedo, with her.
On Friday at 10:40 p.m., a man entered Sushi X -- located at 47-15 Northern Boulevard -- through the rear entrance, according to police. He then allegedly removed an unknown amount of food from the kitchen before fleeing the scene.
Officer Nicholas Mina, 31, was arrested Thursday and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal sale of a firearm, conspiracy and grand larceny.
The incident happened shortly before 1 a.m. when the department's anti-crime unit received information about a suspicious man with a firearm in front of 21 Mill Street.
The family of Rajwinder Kaur, 26, had been desperately searching for answers in her disappearance earlier this week.
Police are hoping surveillance video will help catch a rape suspect who allegedly attacked a 33-year-old woman at a Bronx hotel.
Eight years after Juilliard student Sarah Fox was found dead in upper Manhattan, new evidence has emerged in the case.
One of the leaders of the effort to build an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center says someone threatened to kill him during the furor over the project.
It's not clear if the suspect was a U.S. Postal Service employee or if he was just wearing a uniform as a disguise.
Police responding to a call of 'shots fired' in Springfield Gardens, Queens found three black males dead, each with multiple gunshot wounds, on Saturday morning.
The suspect is accused of shooting Officer Brian Groves as he and his partner were checking on suspected drug activity at the Seward Park Housing Development on Essex Street, police said.
"Officer Groves is clearly lucky to be alive," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. "He was shot from no more than eight feet away. He would have almost certainly have been killed if it wasn't for his bullet-resistant vest."
The officer was said to be assisting in the enforcement of the "No Diving" rule at the Brooklyn pool after a group of individuals were doing back-flips around 5:20 p.m.
The NYPD is asking the public for assistance in tracking down a sexual abuse, rape, and robbery suspect in Queens.
A 14 year-old boy who was found with a loaded gun after a stop-and-frisk in the Bronx in 2010 had his weapons possession conviction overturned in appeals court Thursday and Mayor Bloomberg is furious.
The NYPD ticket-fixing probe has expanded to seven local and federal police agencies.
Two Torah plates, a pointer and a wine cup were discovered missing from the Congregation Ahavath Shalom Synagogue in Forest Hills last Monday, police said.
The Greenhouse in SoHo claims it is losing $264,000 a week since the NYPD closed it on June 16 for code violations.
