Police: Man Punched In Face, Robbed At Knifepoint In Washington Heights
Police said one suspect punched the man in the face while the other pulled out a knife and said, "Don't say anything or I'll stick you."
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Police said one suspect punched the man in the face while the other pulled out a knife and said, "Don't say anything or I'll stick you."
The Coast Guard says the 67-year-old was part of an organized swim event in the Hudson River when he was reported missing by the group he was with.
Anti-crime plainclothes officer Justin Vartanian was shot in the arm.
It happened at 187th Street and Wadsworth Avenue at around 4:30 p.m.
Police said the 25-year-old woman behind the wheel was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical condition. Her 28-year-old passenger was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian, where he was pronounced dead.
A local student escaped a fire in his own building, and he says he has an app to thank.
Police said around 5:15 a.m. Wednesday the suspect entered the 43-year-old victim's home near Wadsworth Avenue and West 189th Street.
City Councilman Mark Levine said Amtrak offered to lower the billboard two feet, but the community wants it scrapped.
The new video, provided by a law enforcement source, comes from an officer's body camera and shows a different angle before the brawl began.
An early-morning fire left a woman dead and eight people seriously hurt Friday in Manhattan.
Police say they are searching for gunman wearing a Halloween mask who shot two people early Thursday morning in Manhattan.
Health officials are still trying to determine the cause of the latest cluster, the second to hit the neighborhood in the last few months.
City health officials hosted a town hall meeting in Washington Heights Monday night regarding the latest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in that area.
City health officials say eight cases of the disease were reported in a five-day period.
The fire started just before 4:00 a.m. on the fifth floor of an apartment building on Fort Washington Avenue.
Police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a man they say sexually assaulted a pair of women on the bridge connecting the Bronx to Washington Heights.
The most recent incident was reported on August 17 along West 189th Street in Washington Heights. Other similar attacks happened in Bedford Park, Norwood and Fordham.
In total, 27 people were sickened in Washington Heights and Hamilton Heights, including one person who died.
A current cluster of cases has already killed one person and sickened 17 others.
The suspect was wearing a camouflage jacket with an orange skull on the back, blue jeans and orange sneakers, police said.
The FDNY says nearby businesses weren't impacted by the flooding, but water did manage to trickle into a 1 train subway station.
Video Tuesday night showed a suspect speeding off during a traffic stop in Washington Heights.
A 75-year-old man was beaten in what appears to be a random attack in Washington Heights.
They were raising glasses Sunday afternoon in Washington Heights, after the famed Coogan's Bar and Grill was saved.
A beloved Washington Heights bar and restaurant that was set to close will stay open, with help from the community and pressure from elected officials.
