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Shaquan Butler was convicted of murder in the fatal beating of his 3-year-old son in the shelter for homeless families at the old Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst in November 2022.

QNS

Elmhurst man faces life in prison for murder of 3-year-old son at family shelter in old Pan American Hotel: DA

Detectives from the 83 Precinct investigate a shooting at Broadway Avenue and Kossuth Place. The victim was left in critical condition.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn shooting leaves one man critically injured

Posted on August 8, 2025

The NYPD held a career day at its police academy in Queens on Thursday for hundreds of young people involved in its summer internship program, which aims to help the most at-risk youth find meaningful career paths.

Queens

NYPD career day at Queens Police Academy aims to connect at-risk youth with professions

Posted on August 8, 2025

A view of Westchester Avenue in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx, where police say a masked gunman fatally shot a man outside ExoticWorld Smoke Shop on Aug. 7

Bronx

Masked gunman fatally shoots man in head outside Bronx smoke shop, police say

Posted on August 8, 2025

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ICE in courts: Game of ‘justice roulette’ continues at Federal Plaza as Lander pushes for more legal funding

Posted on August 7, 2025

nypd officer in full uniform holding badge honoring Queens detective

Queens

This Queens detective now wears the badge of a 9/11 hero, keeping his uncle’s legacy alive

Posted on August 7, 2025

Two of the four suspects wanted in connection with a multi-borough necklace-snatching spree between July 9 and Aug. 2,

Group robs six people in multi-borough necklace-snatching spree: NYPD

Posted on August 7, 2025

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: How each candidate plans to approach policing and crime

Posted on August 7, 2025

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Queens

Queens shooting leaves man dead at public housing complex, suspect on the run

Posted on August 7, 2025

Police officer at a Brooklyn subway station

Woman slashed aboard Lower Manhattan subway train in bloody robbery: cops

Posted on August 7, 2025

Governor Kathy Hochul makes a discovery announcement.

Politics

New York change to discovery laws take effect in win for prosecutors

Posted on August 6, 2025

two men shake hands near portraits of suspects in border patrol agent shooting

Migrants accused of shooting off-duty Border Patrol agent in Manhattan hit with state charges

Posted on August 6, 2025

A DOT worker came across the skeletal remains of a human along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 6.

QNS

Human remains found along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Glendale: NYPD

An Astoria man was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to more than 16 years in prison for running a Mexican sex trafficking organization for nearly a decade in Queens.

QNS

Astoria leader of family-run Mexican sex trafficking organization sentenced to more than 16 years in prison: Feds

Harlem's 32nd Precinct hosted a huge bash for National Night Out.

Harlem

Harlem’s 32nd Precinct National Night Out brings residents, community groups and officers together

Posted on August 6, 2025

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Bronx Times

Grieving family of infant River Wilson alleges negligence in Bronx daycare drowning

An Elmhurst man was remanded into custody without bail on Tuesday after he was arraigned for the murder of his neighbor in a three-family home in Elmhurst on Aug. 3.

QNS

Elmhurst man charged with murder in fatal stabbing of neighbor: NYPD

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Midtown Manhattan

Latest Midtown fatal horse collapse renews ongoing debate over controvercial carriage industry

Posted on August 6, 2025

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Bronx

Bronx playground brawl leaves 14-year-old boy stabbed to death: cops

Posted on August 6, 2025

a police boat in in the east river by the Brooklyn Bridge.

Police investigating death of woman found floating near Brooklyn Bridge in East River

Posted on August 5, 2025

crown heights man sentenced stabbing

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man sentenced for brutal 2020 break-in and stabbing: DA

police at night with car in front at scene of deadly shooting

Lower East Side

Manhattan shooting: Three wounded, three questioned in gunfire near public housing complex

Posted on August 5, 2025

City Council, advocates celebrate $50 million mental health and safety investment, call on Mayor Adams to prioritize Rikers closure

Posted on August 4, 2025

Dozens of uniformed officers released white balloons into the night sky, Friday to pay tribute to the fallen detective from the 47th precinct in the Bronx, Didarul Islam.

Bronx Times

Local precinct remembers its fallen detective in interfaith memorial

A police officer at a crime scene in Harlem.

New York City has record-low shootings so far in 2025, crime decreasing overall, mayor says

Posted on August 4, 2025

The NYPD’s new quality of life teams along the Coney Island boardwalk.

Brooklyn

Mayor Adams and NYPD expand quality of life teams across Brooklyn after successful pilot

Posted on August 4, 2025

blood on sidewalk after east flatbush shooting

Brooklyn Paper

Bloody scene: Triple shooting in Brooklyn injures three people

A 45-year-old Elmhurst man was found bleeding heavily from multiple stab wounds in a cellar stairwell in the Case Street home.

QNS

Elmhurst man found stabbed to death in cellar of Case Street home: NYPD

Midtown Manhattan

What is NYPD paid detail? Inside the off-duty program Officer Islam was working when killed in Midtown mass shooting

Posted on August 3, 2025

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Brooklyn

Man fatally shot, another wounded at Brooklyn late-night party

Posted on August 3, 2025

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Bronx

Bronx man accused of torturing girlfriend to death arrested after neighbor pursuit

Posted on August 3, 2025

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Bronx

Man in Bronx shot dead at public housing complex in neighborhood’s third murder this week

Posted on August 2, 2025

police officers stand on sidewalk in front off yellow police tape at Brooklyn store where man was stabbed dead

Brooklyn

Murders in Brooklyn: Bodega worker stabbed dead in store, man shot in separate incidents

Posted on August 2, 2025

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QNS

More than $2.5M worth of marijuana confiscated during raids in Maspeth, Long Island City: DA

Midtown Manhattan

Council member Tiffany Cabán among 50 protesters arrested in takeover of Schumer, Gillibrand’s Midtown offices

Posted on August 1, 2025

a protester getting arrested in Midtown.

Five pro-Palestine protesters in custody after chaining themselves to UN’s Permanent Mission of Egypt building in Midtown

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Harlem

Police investigating death of man found stabbed in his legs in Harlem

Posted on August 1, 2025

A firefighter works to beat the heat as temps were in the mid 90's during an afternoon blaze in the lower East side on Monday, July, 28.

Lower East Side

Fire rips through Lower East Side building rooftop

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man indicted for loan fraud and election scheme: DA

police officers carry casket of slain cop as family mourns in background and officer salutes

NYPD officer slain in Midtown mass shooting given a hero’s tribute at Bronx funeral

Posted on July 31, 2025

police officers escort person away from mass shooting scene

Midtown mass shooting was NYC’s deadliest in 25 years in an era when America sees hundreds of massacres annually

Posted on July 31, 2025

A black Dodge Durango, seen here in surveillance footage, was used as a getaway vehicle in two armed robberies that occurred minutes apart in the Bronx, police said.

Bronx

Police seek Bronx robbery crew in two street stickups 20 minutes apart – a day before double homicide

Posted on July 31, 2025

The body of a South Ozone Park man was pulled from Jamaica Bay in Broad Channel on July 27, and police are working to determine how he died.

QNS

Body of South Ozone Park man found floating in Jamaica Bay off Broad Channel: NYPD

AR-15 rifle used in Midtown mass shooting

NYC Neighborhoods

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: New details emerge in investigation of why and how shooter got his weapon of death

Posted on July 30, 2025

Isaiah Gurley is charged with animal cruelty and arson for allegedly killing a pit bull and torching the body on a street in South Ozone Park.

QNS

Alleged dog arsonist criminally charged with animal cruelty for killing, burning pit bull in South Ozone Park: DA

Midtown mass shooting suspect holding M4 rifle with photo of his permit

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: How Nevada gun laws helped enable a killer to wreak havoc and death in New York

Posted on July 30, 2025

Officers looks out for safety in subway in Brooklyn

Brooklyn subway station fight ends in tragedy after straphanger struck and killed by train: cops

Posted on July 30, 2025

police officer smiling in front of American and New York flag

Bronx

Funeral services set for Bronx cop slain in Midtown mass shooting

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Queens College has received a $1.1 million grant to support its first-generation student population.

Queens College awarded $1.1M grant to support first-generation students

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Death Cab for Cutie to celebrate 20 years of ‘Plans’ with three-night Brooklyn run

Ace's Place, a new transitional housing program for trans New Yorkers, opened this summer in Long Island City, Queens.

New transitional housing program for transgender New Yorkers opens in Long Island City