NYPD investigating several subway stabbings
Transit data released Sunday show crimes underground are up by more than 100 compared to the same time last year.
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Transit data released Sunday show crimes underground are up by more than 100 compared to the same time last year.
The nation's first official overdose prevention sites opened in Manhattan two months ago, promising to help heal the community after a spike in drug-related deaths. A group of neighbors put that promise to the test.
A 19-year-old woman was stabbed on a subway early Thursday morning and police are searching for the attacker.
According to police, the suspect was armed with a knife when he approached the 43-year-old woman and, at first, tried to grab her cellphone.
The MTA says it started in a small shopping cart filled with clothes and a propane tank.
It started around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Video from the most recent incident shows the suspect snatching an 85-year-old woman's purse.
The pandemic presented many hurdles for high school track and field stars.
East Harlem and Washington Heights are home to the nation's first official overdose prevention sites, and some neighbors are concerned about the implications.
Trained staff will provide clean needles, administer Narcan and provide addition treatment at facilities in East Harlem and Washington Heights.
Officers were sent to the intersection of West 177th Street and Wadsworth Avenue around 1:40 a.m. Friday for a report that a man had been shot.
Both men served more than two decades in prison for a crime they did not commit. They were exonerated after a 22-month investigation.
Muhammad Aziz, Khalil Islam, and a man later known as Thomas Hagan were convicted of murder the next year and sentenced to life in prison.
Police said they received a report of shots fired, and two officers encountered the 23-year-old suspect.
More than 70 firefighters responded and evacuated residents. The child was found in the basement with severe body trauma and could not be saved.
Sliwa said he feels good about the race and will do whatever he can to support New York City.
The suspect allegedly approached the man while waving a firearm, told him to get back in the car and said, "Give me everything you got."
According to police, the suspect, know as "Rafi," assaulted and/or robbed at least two women at the park in August.
Police said it all happened inside a Mama's Fried Chicken in Harlem at around 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday.
The incidents happened at the West 168th Street and Broadway station.
This comes as the number of children hospitalized with COVID nationwide has tripled in just four weeks.
Police said the gunman got out of a black Toyota Highlander and fired at the teen.
In 1992, Sen. Robert Jackson and local parents filed a lawsuit against the state of New York claiming children were not being provided the opportunity to receive adequate schooling.
Police said a gunman got out of a black Toyota Highlander and fired at the teen.
According to police, the driver of a Mercedes-Benz hit a group of people and drove off.
