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A jail on Rikers Island.

DEVELOPING: Rikers Island goes into federal receivership as judge appoints manager to oversee city jail, end civil rights abuses

Posted on May 13, 2025

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Bronx

Teenage girl shot dead outside Bronx high school after schoolyard brawl: cops

Posted on May 12, 2025

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Bronx

The wrong man: Bronx native left devastated after judge denies exoneration following 30-year legal battle

Posted on May 12, 2025

Man holds up photo of victim of police-involved shooting

Mothers of NYC police-involved shooting victims urge top cop Tisch to fire lieutenant behind 2019 killing

Posted on May 12, 2025

The victim, 31-year-old Fode Bamba, was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, according to the NYPD.

Bronx

Man, 20, arrested in fatal Mother’s Day stabbing in the Bronx: NYPD

Posted on May 12, 2025

suspect wearing gray shirt and blue jeans who allegedly attacked a man on a Brookylyn bus

Brooklyn

70-year-old man struck in the face by stranger on Brooklyn bus

Posted on May 12, 2025

Police investigate after man stabbed

Wild Manhattan brawl ends with stabbing that leaves man critically wounded

Posted on May 12, 2025

Scene where Staten Island cops were fired upon by gunman

Staten Island cops hospitalized after gunman opens fire on them during traffic stop

Posted on May 12, 2025

police at a crime scene after a man was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn shuttle bus stabbing leaves man dead in horrific daytime attack

Posted on May 11, 2025

Police at a stabbing scene in Queens

Queens

Queens cops seek suspect behind deadly stabbing at street corner

Posted on May 11, 2025

Police investigate double shooting scene in the Bronx

Bronx

Double shooting in the Bronx leaves man dead, woman wounded: cops

Posted on May 11, 2025

Hero officer with dog adopted after East River rescue

NYPD cop who saved dog from cold waters of East River adopts pup to ‘bring my baby home’

Posted on May 11, 2025

Queens rape suspect accused of sexually abusing girl

Queens

Queens rape suspect accused of repeatedly abusing 14-year-old girl at church may have other victims: cops

Posted on May 10, 2025

Cops at scene of Lower Manhattan shooting

NYC Neighborhoods

Man shot dead at Lower Manhattan public housing complex near NYPD headquarters

Posted on May 10, 2025

The NYPD released Surveillance images of two of the alleged suspects wanted in connection with the May 5 shooting.

Bronx

Bronx cops seek five suspects after 20-year-old shot in hip during dispute

Posted on May 9, 2025

Surveillance footage shows the four alleged suspects involved in a series of robberies and assaults targeting cab drivers across Manhattan and Queens.

Cops seek alleged passenger robbery crew after 19 cab drivers targeted across Manhattan

Posted on May 9, 2025

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Bronx

Driver who allegedly killed beloved Bronx football coach during pileup turns himself in

Posted on May 8, 2025

Queens

A police cadet stabbed in Queens achieves dream of becoming NYPD officer two years later: ‘I never saw myself as being a hero’

Posted on May 8, 2025

Mayor Adams wearing sunglasses while speaking about housing investments

Politics

Mayor Adams applauds new state budget that expands involuntary commitment powers for those with mental illness

Posted on May 8, 2025

Police arrest Columbia University protesters

Columbia University turmoil: Secretary of State Rubio threatens to deport protesters after 80 arrests for occupying library

Posted on May 8, 2025

Midtown protesters clash with conservative gala attendees honoring Trump-loving billionaire

Midtown protesters rage on outside posh conservative think tank’s gala saluting billionaire who backed Trump; three arrested

Posted on May 8, 2025

Police officer in Times Square investigating arson attack

NYPD says crime dropped in April, but murders and shootings increased for the month

Posted on May 7, 2025

Animal rights activists protest pigeon poaching in NYC

All ‘fowled’ up: Animal rights activists sound the alarm over NYC pigeon poaching after bird-napper’s arrest

Posted on May 7, 2025

Boardwalk Empire actor Michael Pitt

Brooklyn

‘Boardwalk Empire’ actor Michael Pitt arrested in Brooklyn on various sex abuse charges

Posted on May 7, 2025

Cops at scene of Lower Manhattan shooting

Brooklyn

Shooting at Brooklyn nail salon leaves man wounded, perp on run: cops

Posted on May 7, 2025

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Photos

Photo Perspective: Months of New York protests captured on film

Posted on May 7, 2025

Police are searching for a green-haired psycho who physically and verbally assaulted a 73-year-old woman aboard a Midtown train last week.

Green-haired psycho in Midtown assaults and menaces 73-year-old straphanger: cops

Posted on May 7, 2025

Suspects in Times Square assault on cops

Times Square assault on cops: Tisch says controversial gang database leads to more arrests

Posted on May 6, 2025

suspects, both wearing black jackets, who allegedlty damaged train doors

Mask-wearing vandals in the Bronx go on subway door demolition derby: cops

Posted on May 6, 2025

Harlem attempted shooting suspect

Harlem gunman wanted for attempting to shoot man to death in broad daylight

Posted on May 5, 2025

Correction officers union and public advocate dispute Rikers Island conditions

Queens

War of words at Rikers Island: Public advocate, correction officer union boss clash over conditions at jails

Posted on May 5, 2025

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Courts

Man charged with choking boss to death with zip ties at Tribeca jewelry store eight years ago

Posted on May 5, 2025

Subway train pulls into station in Queens on 7 line

Queens

Subway psycho beats straphanger bloody with butt of knife aboard 7 train in Queens: cops

Posted on May 5, 2025

Mayor Adams and bodega workers speak about panic buttons

500 NYC bodegas getting panic buttons with direct police link to help fight crime, Mayor Adams says

Posted on May 4, 2025

Police officer in Times Square investigating arson attack

FIRST ON amNY | Three teens arrested for attacking cops in Times Square during brawl, Mayor Eric Adams says

Posted on May 4, 2025

Scene of Harlem shooting with stray bullet

NYC Neighborhoods

Harlem woman hit with stray bullet weeks after neighborhood grandmother killed in similar incident

Posted on May 4, 2025

Smiling Staten Island sicko opens fire on woman with pellet gun

Smiling sicko on Staten Island shoots woman with pellet gun as she held baby

Posted on May 4, 2025

Officers looks out for safety in subway

Bronx

Bronx men charged for stabbing man in torso at Manhattan subway station during afternoon rush

Posted on May 3, 2025

Shooting scene in the Harlem

NYC Neighborhoods

Man fatally stabbed in the back at Harlem apartment building: cops

Posted on May 3, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Firefighters battle two-alarm fire at Park Slope apartment

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Brooklyn Paper

Staten Island man sentenced to 15 years in prison after shooting pregnant woman on Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera addressing the media early Friday morning about the officer-involved shooting inside a Pelham Bay apartment building

Bronx

Bronx cops shoot man holding mother at knifepoint, officials say

Posted on May 2, 2025

Manhattan sexual abuse suspect freed

Courts

Alleged Manhattan sexual abuse suspect turned loose on supervised release despite upgraded charges

Posted on May 1, 2025

A view of 3370 Baychester Ave. in the Eastchester section of the Bronx, where police say a man was fatally shot following a dispute on Wednesday, April 30.

Bronx

NYPD: Dispute ends in fatal Bronx shooting, gunman still at large

Posted on May 1, 2025

Times Square shooting suspect escorted by cops during perp walk

Times Square shooting suspect claims he wounded food vendor out of ‘self-defense’

Posted on May 1, 2025

Manhattan subway rapist caught on camera sniffing fingers

Manhattan subway rape suspect who allegedly forced man to perform oral sex on him caught: cops

Posted on May 1, 2025

EXCLUSIVE | Cops cuff Pennsylvania man for catching pigeons in Manhattan park; had truck full of birds

Posted on April 30, 2025

Suspect in City Hall stabbing escorted from NYPD stationhouse by detectives

Bronx man surrenders in deadly City Hall subway station stabbing sparked by stepped-on shoes

Posted on April 30, 2025

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