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a suspect in a central park robbery

Crooks sought for stealing from men in Central Park robbery

Posted on August 16, 2024

Bronx suspect who crashed into squad car

Bronx motorcycle rider busted after nearly mowing down cop while avoiding enforcement operation on Throgs Neck Bridge

Posted on August 15, 2024

A firefighter works to overhaul an apartment at 1535 Shore Parkway.

Brooklyn Paper

Firefighters rescue trapped resident in Brooklyn blaze

NYPD officer in Times Square

Midtown Manhattan

Two teens stabbed in Times Square subway station: cops

Posted on August 15, 2024

Bicyclists

Upper East Side

Full force: NYPD surges cops into Central Park amid rising crime

Posted on August 14, 2024

Bricks of cocaine in a tractor trailer in the Bronx

Wide load! Bronx cops cuff 3 drug traffickers found with nearly 360 pounds of cocaine stuffed in truck

Posted on August 14, 2024

Police at crime scene

Brooklyn

Brooklyn’s ‘Bullet Town’ sees man grazed in head in latest shooting

Posted on August 14, 2024

Brooklyn girl kidnapped near subway station

Brooklyn

Missing Brooklyn teen says she was kidnapped in text message to relative: cops

Posted on August 14, 2024

Photo of Manhattan robber who choked victim at 14th Street station

Greenwich Village

Manhattan robber choked men out and stole their watches in three separate incidents: cops

Posted on August 14, 2024

Police arrested 21-year-old Mohamed Sawaneh Tuesday for allegedly shooting a man dead in Harlem last month, authorities said.

Harlem

‘Didn’t do sh*t,’ alleged Harlem gunman says after arrest for killing Bronx man

Posted on August 13, 2024

NYPD officer looking at camera

Money spent on NYPD lawsuit settlements reach eye-watering levels in 2024: report

Posted on August 13, 2024

An inspection of a Lower East Side marijuana shop unearthed 13 pounds of crack cocaine.

Lower East Side

Lower East Side pot shop inspection leads cops to 13 pounds of crack/‌cocaine

Posted on August 13, 2024

Yellow school buses sit outside PS K140 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in 2022.

Harlem

Off-duty NYC school crossing guard in Harlem threatened mom, son with weapons: cops

Posted on August 13, 2024

Man in Brooklyn accused of biting cops during emotional disturbance

Brooklyn

Man in Brooklyn bites and beats cops during response to 911 mental health call: NYPD

Posted on August 12, 2024

Police on boardwalk in Coney Island

Brooklyn

Coney Island rape: Suspects nabbed for sexual assault under boardwalk, police say

Posted on August 12, 2024

Chad Irish, 55, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams, who police say he shot in the head before wrapping her body in a sleeping bag and dumping her on East 27th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue on July 5.

Courts

Accused Kips Bay killer who dumped woman’s body on street rants and raves at arraignment

Posted on August 12, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams appoints Robert Tucker as New York City's 35th FDNY commissioner. Monday, Aug. 12, 2024.

Politics

Private security exec Robert Tucker tapped as NYC’s 35th Fire Commissioner

Posted on August 12, 2024

83-m-train

Brooklyn Paper

Police seek suspect in robbery of woman at Brooklyn M train station

EMS Station 40 in Sunset Park unveiled its new mural honoring EMS workers lost in the line of duty and the community.

Brooklyn Paper

Sunset Park’s ‘Dragon’s Den’ unveils mural as elected officials demand EMT pay parity

Police at shooting scene

Brooklyn

13-year-old girl stabbed near Barclays Center in Brooklyn: cops

Posted on August 12, 2024

Police at crime scene

Sheriff’s office find trap door and squalid conditions inside Manhattan smoke shop

Posted on August 11, 2024

Police at the Randall's Island migrant shelter.

Migrant stabbed outside Randall’s Island shelter: cops

Posted on August 11, 2024

Police have released images of the suspect wanted for attempting to rape a woman on the Upper East Side Saturday.

Upper East Side

Police release photos of suspect who attempted to rape woman near Gracie Mansion

Posted on August 11, 2024

Police are looking for a man, pictured, who allegedly stabbed a teenager at a Brooklyn soup kitchen Wednesday.

Brooklyn

Teen working in Brooklyn soup kitchen stabbed by patron: cops

Posted on August 11, 2024

Upper East Side crime scene

Upper East Side

Upper East Side sexual assault leaves woman injured, attacker at large

Posted on August 10, 2024

Firefighters battled a three alarm fire at 90-16 80 Street.

Queens

Firefighters take on blaze at Queens home

Posted on August 9, 2024

split photo of a man in a yellow hat and the other photo shows him on a bike

Brutish bigot punches senior in Central Park, yells antisemitic slur

Posted on August 9, 2024

illegal pot in a Queens warehouse

Queens

Major Queens drug bust nets $5 million in illegal pot products

Posted on August 9, 2024

Police at crime scene

Brooklyn

Shooting at Marcus Garvey Houses in Brooklyn leaves one man injured: cops

Posted on August 9, 2024

A police officer and a young boy

Queens

Career day at the Queens police academy brings 1,000 NYPD interns in for a look at job options

Posted on August 9, 2024

convictions

QNS

DA Katz dismisses convictions of 46 defendants following perjury plea by former NYPD Detective

Passing through the junk market along East 14th Street and Avenue A.

Violence-plagued East Village intersection with illegal market getting major boost in NYPD security

Posted on August 8, 2024

battle

QNS

NYPD vs. FDNY: ‘Battle of the Badges’ baseball game returning to Citi Field Sep. 12

The interior of the verizon van that was blown up

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man cuffed for blowing up Verizon van in Crown Heights road rage attack

the times square subway station

Midtown Manhattan

Subway shover pleads guilty to unprovoked attack at Times Square station in 2021

Posted on August 8, 2024

Detectives investigate shooting outside Lower East Side bodega

Lower East Side

Lower East Side shooting: Man wounded in gunfire outside bodega, cops say

Posted on August 8, 2024

Police investigate deadly stabbing scene

Bronx

Double stabbing leaves one man dead in the Bronx

Posted on August 8, 2024

Police officers

Bronx

Bronx cops seek pair who shot six men in brazen attack near park

Posted on August 8, 2024

Neida Monge, Bronx cold case murder victim

Bronx

Who killed Neida Monge? Bronx family and NYPD detectives determined to solve cold case 34 years in making

Posted on August 7, 2024

Brooklyn police investigate scene where man was stabbed dead

Brooklyn

Man in Brooklyn violently stabbed to death on quiet neighborhood corner

Posted on August 7, 2024

Police Vehicle

Brooklyn

Brooklyn cop allegedly harassed ex-girlfriend with text messages: sources

Posted on August 7, 2024

Performers at the National Night Out Against Crime in Chinatown

Chinatown

Cops bond with Chinatown residents at National Night Out Against Crime

Posted on August 7, 2024

NYPD officer in Queens Subway station

Queens

Homeless man arrested after double stabbing in Queens leaves two men hospitalized

Posted on August 7, 2024

police in uniform by caution tape in the Bronx

Brooklyn

27-year-old-man shot multiple times in Brooklyn: cops

Posted on August 7, 2024

Assistant Police Commissioner Kaz Daughtry at the scene of a shooting.

Daily News Union, NYPD at odds again — this time over clash between deputy commissioner and bureau chief

Posted on August 6, 2024

NYC crime: Brooklyn detectives investigate shooting scene

Politics

NYC crime: July sees overall felonies drop, though murder rate ticks upward

Posted on August 6, 2024

Thirty-two-year-old Samuel Seligson allegedly responsible for vandalizing several buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn in June in a series of antisemitic hate crimes turned himself into police on Tuesday, authorities said.

Lower Manhattan

Indy journalist surrenders in antisemitic vandalism spree targeting Brooklyn Museum’s Jewish board members

Posted on August 6, 2024

man wearing mask and a white shirt and T-shirt in Bronx

Bronx

Crook gets away with nearly $500 after robbing Bronx bank

Posted on August 6, 2024

More from around NYC

blood drive

NYC Health + Hospitals hosts blood drive in honor of late chief nursing officer

A former NYPD officer from Bellerose was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to three years in prison for defrauding millions of dollars from investors.

Ex-NYPD officer from Bellerose sentenced to three years in prison for wire fraud scheme: Feds

crown heights shooting

Man shot, injured in broad daylight in Crown Heights

Monica Helms, creator of the Trans Flag, participates in a panel discussion at WorldPride 2025 in Washington.

Monica Helms, creator of Trans Flag, flees to Costa Rica with her wife