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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

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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

people embrace during a candlelight vigil in Bryant Park

New Yorkers gather in Bryant Park to grief Midtown mass shooting victims, vow ‘we are stronger together’

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Body of slain Bronx cop killed in Midtown mass shooting released to his family as funeral rites begin

Posted on July 29, 2025

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

Courts

Man sentenced to 18 years for pushing girlfriend in front of Lower Manhattan subway: DA

Posted on July 29, 2025

A police officer stands guard at the entrance to 345 Park Ave., the point of entry for the gunman in Monday’s fatal Midtown shooting.

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Life resumes under eerie calm near Park Avenue office building the day after tragedy unfolded

Posted on July 29, 2025

People walking into Bronx home of slain officer in Midtown mass shooting

Bronx Times

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Officer Didarul Islam’s Parkchester neighbors remember him as friendly, prayerful

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MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Rudin Management associate Julia Hyman among dead

Posted on July 29, 2025

Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are looking for an alleged groper who targeted another man as he sat aboard a Q98 MTA bus in broad daylight during the afternoon of Saturday, July 27.

QNS

Creep groped man while riding Q98 MTA bus in Flushing: NYPD

Police at scene of Midtown mass shooting

Midtown Manhattan

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: SEIU security officer Aland Etienne among those murdered

Posted on July 29, 2025

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Midtown Manhattan

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Wesley LePatner, Blackstone executive and leader in Jewish community, killed in attack

Posted on July 29, 2025

Suspect in red polo shirt wanted for setting fire to dog in Queens

Queens

Suspect who allegedly burned dog on Queens street caught at shopping mall: cops

Posted on July 29, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch address the press on July 28, 2025 about the Midtown mass shooting.

Midtown Manhattan

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Gunman ‘blamed the NFL,’ intended to target league headquarters, Mayor Adams says

Posted on July 29, 2025

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Midtown Manhattan

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: NYPD detectives head to Nevada to investigate gunman’s tracks after suicide note revealed

Posted on July 29, 2025

Police carry flag-draped body on gurney of police officer killed in mass shooting

Midtown Manhattan

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Bronx cop hailed as hero as police probe whether gunman targeted NFL headquarters

Posted on July 29, 2025

The FDNY battled a ferocious four alarm fire that ripped through seven one-story commercial buildings on Dry Harbor Road in Middle Village on July 28.

QNS

Four-alarm late night fire in Middle Village leaves six firefighters injured: FDNY

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MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Five people, including gunman and cop, dead in office building rampage

Posted on July 28, 2025

Disgraced Rep. George Santos surrendered himself into custody to begin his 87-month prison sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

LI Press

Ex-Rep. George Santos surrenders to begin 87-month prison sentence

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Bronx

Rider’s face fractured in Bronx subway attack police say was unprovoked

Posted on July 28, 2025

A motorcyclist from Astoria was killed in a fatal collision in Corona after he struck a vehicle, was thrown from his bike, and was struck by a hit-and-run driver near LeFrak City, police said.

QNS

Astoria motorcyclist killed in fatal crash on Long Island Expressway near LeFrak City: NYPD

Police work the scene of a double fatal shooting near Ferry Point Park in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx on Monday, July 28,

Bronx

Gunmen in ski masks fatally shoot two near Bronx park, flee on moped: NYPD

Posted on July 28, 2025

Police officers investigate scene of shooting with cone and yellow tape

Brooklyn

Brooklyn shooting leaves man wounded, suspect in custody

Posted on July 28, 2025

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Remembering 9/11

9/11 survivor and NYC Secret Service head Patrick Freaney to retire after 25-year career of protecting presidents and New Yorkers

Posted on July 28, 2025

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Guns be gone! NYPD, mayor tout more than 3,000 firearms seized citywide, but warn of 3D technology

Posted on July 27, 2025

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