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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn contractor allegedly used couple’s renovation money for luxury purchases

Trans activists protest NYU Langone pause on gender-affirming care

Health

‘Blood on your hands’: Thousands protest NYU Langone halt of trans youth gender-affirming care after Trump order

Posted on February 4, 2025

Ulises Bohorquez, A Venezuelan migrant involved in a Times Square brawl with police last year pleaded guilty on Monday afternoon and was sentenced to a year behind bars.

Migrant pleads guilty in infamous Times Square brawl that left cops injured

Posted on February 3, 2025

A large truck traveling south on Franklin Ave struck a 65-year-old-woman who was crossing the street, killing her.

Bronx Times

65-year-old woman killed after being struck by truck in Morrisania

Police are searching for a man who painted a black swastika on the Washington Square Park arch on Jan. 21.

Hate crimes: Three men sought for drawing swastikas in Queens and Manhattan in separate incidents

Posted on February 3, 2025

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QNS

Senior woman stabbed multiple times during home invasion in her Flushing apartment: NYPD

Manhattan pervert who sexually assaulted girl

Harlem

Pervert in Manhattan stalked and sexually assaulted 11-year-old girl on street: cops

Posted on February 3, 2025

East Village fire scene

Fast-moving East Village fire kills senior: FDNY

Posted on February 2, 2025

Police are looking for a gunman who killed a man in the Bronx during the early hours of Sunday morning in an apparent drive-by shooting.

Bronx

Bronx man gunned down in apparent drive-by shooting: cops

Posted on February 2, 2025

The NYPD say they are on the hunt for three youths who shot a teen boy in a caught-on-camera afternoon Queens ambush last month.

Queens

Queens shooting suspects open fire on teen in brazen assault: cops

Posted on February 2, 2025

Harlem crime scene

Queens

Queens slasher attacks man outside restaurant: cops

Posted on February 1, 2025

Brooklyn police at a shooting scene

Brooklyn

Brooklyn gunman shot victim in both shoulders in late-night attack: cops

Posted on February 1, 2025

The FDNY quickly took out a fire that occurred in the basement of a Brooklyn home.

Brooklyn

FDNY quickly takes down Brooklyn basement fire

Posted on January 31, 2025

This suspect is wanted for hitting a man in the face with a glass at an East Village bar.

Suspect sought so smashing man in the face with glass at East Village bar

Posted on January 31, 2025

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch charged on Thursday that the city’s subway system is not a “homeless shelter” as she announced that she is directing cops to address quality of life issues underground.

‘Not a homeless shelter’: Police Commissioner unveils new subway plan to address crime and quality of life issues

Posted on January 30, 2025

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks about recidivists

Courts

NYPD Commissioner Tisch pushes to change discovery law to keep recidivists behind bars, rails against DAs for lack of prosecution

Posted on January 30, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

‘My son was tremendous’: Grieving family, community hold vigil for Heath Campbell, 15-year-old shooting victim in Brooklyn

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QNS

Notorious squatter pleads guilty to illegally occupying Flushing home: DA

Brooklyn stabbing suspect caught on camera

Brooklyn

Brooklyn stabbing suspect behind violent attack on man at street corner still at large

Posted on January 30, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Third time’s the harm: E-bike sparks third fire in as many years at NYPD’s Red Hook auto pound

Suspect in Staten Island rape case

Staten Island cops seek rape suspect accused of attacking 5-year-old stepdaughter

Posted on January 29, 2025

NYPD commissioner and chief of detectives discuss ICE raids

Politics

ICE raids: NYPD says migrants shouldn’t fear law enforcement – unless they are criminals

Posted on January 29, 2025

Tren de Aragua gang member indicted for gun running

Queens

A history of violence: 10 Tren de Aragua gun runners indicted in Queens firearm and drug bust

Posted on January 29, 2025

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Bronx Times

Electeds pledge support for migrants following ICE raid that rattled Highbridge community

The NYPD vs. FDNY basketball game took place on Jan. 26 at the Barclays Center.

Sports

NYPD and FDNY square off at Barclays Center in annual charity basketball game

Posted on January 29, 2025

Police are hunting for two gun-wielding suspects who mugged a teen boy inside a Bronx subway station on Monday in the latest act of crime in the bowels of the Big Apple.

NYC subway crime: Teen robbed at gunpoint on Bronx 6 train, cops say

Posted on January 29, 2025

Scene of Brooklyn shooting where man was killed

Brooklyn

Brooklyn shootings: Man shot dead three hours after teen slain in bloody day for borough

Posted on January 29, 2025

Scene of slashing in Manhattan court

Manhattan courtroom slashing leaves two men hospitalized, seven suspects in custody

Posted on January 28, 2025

Police are investigating a shooting in Brooklyn that left one teen dead and another injured.

Brooklyn

Cops seek suspect who fatally shot teen, injured another in Brooklyn

Posted on January 28, 2025

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Bronx Times

City confirms 2,200-bed South Bronx shelter will open in February despite opposition during heated meeting

juvenile detention sexual abuse lawsuits

Brooklyn Paper

‘We are not just files’: 115 new sexual assault lawsuits filed against juvenile detention centers in New York City

queens village

QNS

Two gunmen sought in fatal shooting of Queens Village man at Cunningham Heights complex Monday: NYPD

Additional NYPD officers in the subways

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the NYPD’s first full-fledged overnight subway surge of cops riding the trains

Posted on January 28, 2025

ICE raid in Bronx in which suspected undocumented person was arrested

Bronx

ICE raid: Bronx ‘criminal alien’ arrested on kidnapping charge as Trump Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends early morning sting

Posted on January 28, 2025

Manhattan subway attack suspect arrested and smiling for pushing woman into moving train

Harlem

Manhattan subway attack: Deranged man says voices in his head made him push woman into moving train

Posted on January 28, 2025

Man arrested during NYPD toll evasion operation amid congestion pricin

Brooklyn

Heavy toll: NYPD, city agencies crack down on drivers evading congestion pricing and tunnel payments

Posted on January 27, 2025

Police at scene where Brooklyn man was shot

Brooklyn man shot near apartment building in broad daylight attack: cops

Posted on January 27, 2025

Bus crash in Midtown claimed worker's life

Midtown Manhattan

Worker dies in Midtown after MTA bus crashes into boom lift

Posted on January 27, 2025

drug trafficking

QNS

‘Operation Frostbite’ dismantles Flushing drug trafficking ring, indicts four: DA

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Bronx Times

South Bronx shelter plan sparks outrage as residents and officials push back

A mentally disturbed man in obvious need of medical assistance was left wallowing in his own filth on a Manhattan subway on Sunday while also sending straphangers running in panic — a reminder of the city's continued struggle to address the severely mentally ill in the subway system. (Part of image blurred for content)

NYC subway riders shaken by mentally ill man’s filthy breakdown on 6 train, caught on camera

Posted on January 26, 2025

Brooklyn shooting scene

Brooklyn

Woman wounded in early-morning Brooklyn shooting near laundromat

Posted on January 26, 2025

Police at crime scene

Queens

Queens stabbing leaves man dead, teenager in custody, in dispute with family who sublet room to victim

Posted on January 26, 2025

Queens rape attempt suspect with handkerchief

Queens

Queens rape attempt: Chilling surveillance video shows suspect with handkerchief used to subdue woman

Posted on January 26, 2025

Some two hundred firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at 335 Graham Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 2025.

Brooklyn

Ferocious four-alarm Brooklyn fire leaves numerous families displaced

Posted on January 26, 2025

Rape attempt suspect in Queens

Queens

Creep in Queens who attempted to rape woman still at large

Posted on January 25, 2025

Suspect in Manhattan golf club assault at subway station

Brute hits woman’s head with golf club in Lower Manhattan subway station assault

Posted on January 25, 2025

Brooklyn police officer

Brooklyn

Brooklyn woman stabbed dead in apartment building; person of interest questioned

Posted on January 25, 2025

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