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Police at scene of crime in Times Square

Times Square pepper-spray attack: Two cops injured in random assault

Posted on July 2, 2025

suspect in beige prison clothes with officer smirking during arraignment

Courts

Man who allegedly beat pregnant woman with pipe in Manhattan grins at arraignment

Posted on June 30, 2025

Exterior of Manhattan criminal court house

Courts

Manhattan court officers stabbed and wounded in courthouse attack; suspect in custody

Posted on June 16, 2025

Suspect who stabbed man in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Man stabbed in Brooklyn after being asked if he was in a gang

Posted on June 1, 2025

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Bronx Times

Elderly woman, 89, assaulted at Bronx bus stop; police searching for two suspects

Woman assaulted in Randall's Island

Woman beaten to the brink of death in late night Randall’s Island attack

Posted on May 21, 2025

Suspect who assaulted MTA worker at M train station

Queens

M train assault: MTA worker attacked by umbrella-wielding straphanger

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.

Midtown Manhattan

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

Posted on May 7, 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

FILE - Police at a Brooklyn crime scene

Brooklyn

Bloody Brooklyn brawl leaves three people stabbed and injured: cops

Posted on April 20, 2025

Collage of suspects involved in Manhattan subway assault

Police continue search for 9 youths who beat straphanger on Lower Manhattan train over $15

Posted on March 16, 2025

Police arresting the suspect

Man who was shoved in front of Manhattan train on New Year’s Eve speaks out for first time

Posted on January 12, 2025

Upper West Side man who attacked woman at Dunkin'

Upper West Side

EXCLUSIVE | Upper West Side assault victim says she’s leaving Big Apple after attacker with long arrest history is set free

Posted on December 1, 2024

Police at Bronx homicide scene

Bronx

Bronx man beaten to death with baseball bat outside of his home

Posted on December 1, 2024

NYPD's Crimestoppers shared images of the alleged suspects who remain at large.

Brooklyn Paper

Cops renew plea to identify suspects behind anti-Palestinian attack on couple

Travor Nurse (top left) and Diamond Minter (bottom left) were arrested on Oct. 7, 2024 in connection with the Upper East Side assault of former Gov. David Paterson (right) and his stepson.

Upper East Side

David Paterson assault: Two more suspects cuffed for beating former governor and his stepson on Upper East Side

Posted on October 7, 2024

Former Gov. David Paterson

Upper East Side

Former Gov. David Paterson and stepson assaulted on Upper East Side; two youths arrested

Posted on October 6, 2024

Brooklyn suspect who attacked senior woman

Brooklyn

Rambling madman in Brooklyn brutally beats senior for no apparent reason: cops

Posted on August 19, 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 at the Randall's Island migrant shelter.

Migrant stabbed outside Randall’s Island shelter: cops

Posted on August 11, 2024

The intersection of 100th Street and 37th Avenue in Corona, Queens, where a violent brawl occurred on Aug. 3.

Queens

Five stabbed in bloody Queens brawl, police seek two suspects

Posted on August 4, 2024

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QNS

Corona man charged with rape and kidnapping for attacks on 13-year-olds in Flushing park: DA

Police are on the hunt for a brute who assaulted a senior in a brazen, daylight attack on the Upper East Side earlier this month, authorities said.

Upper East Side

Senior sucker-punched outside of Upper East Side supermarket: cops

Posted on May 21, 2024

Suspect in brutal Midtown street beating

Midtown Manhattan

One-man army in Midtown battered and beat three people in street assault: cops

Posted on April 21, 2024

suspect wearing dark jacket holding a hockey stick on an East Village sidewalk

Hockey stick-swinging goon wanted for East Village assault: cops

Posted on April 18, 2024

amber adler at divorce event

Brooklyn Paper

‘A women’s rights revolution’: Women attacked during religious divorce event in Brooklyn

Suspect who slashed man in Washington Heights

Washington Heights

Perp in Washington Heights who slashed man’s eye over smoking argument still at large: cops

Posted on March 11, 2024

Crime scene in Manhattan

Manhattan stabbing suspect still at large for attacking man on street

Posted on March 10, 2024

Manhattan suspect who kicked man onto subway tracks

Manhattan cops seek assailant who kicked man onto subway tracks

Posted on March 5, 2024

The suspect who attacked a woman with a baseball bat.

Man violently attacks woman with baseball bat in Chelsea

Posted on February 26, 2024

Suspect in Queens pipe attack at subway station with train pulling away

Queens subway pipe attack: Deranged man sought for bashing straphanger in head

Posted on February 18, 2024

Suspect in Chinatown metal pipe attack, and scene of crime

Chinatown

Brute in Chinatown who bashed man with metal pipe still on the run: cops

Posted on February 11, 2024

The suspect wanted in connection with an alleged homophobic attack at a Harlem subway station.

Suspect assaults man during homophobic attack at Harlem subway station: NYPD

Posted on January 12, 2024

Suspect in assault on 4 train in Financial District

Fiend on the 4 train assaults woman in the Financial District: cops

Posted on January 8, 2024

The suspect behind the racially-motivated attack in Brooklyn.

Bigot pepper sprays 15-year-old during racist attack in Brooklyn

Posted on December 27, 2023

The third suspect (pictured) escaped police following the Dec. 11 taser attack.

Brooklyn

Three attackers Tase a 15-year-old girl during Brooklyn assault

Posted on December 26, 2023

Police investigate the scene of the bloody attack near 1968 W. 9th St. in Brooklyn on Thursday.

One man dead, another in critical condition after violent attack in Brooklyn

Posted on December 7, 2023

Police crime scene tape.

61-year-old man stabbed with screwdriver in unprovoked attack on Manhattan train: NYPD

Posted on November 10, 2023

rally for bensonhurst father

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn councilmember backs calls for DA to drop assault charges against Bensonhurst father

man arrested in sunset park hammer atack

Brooklyn Paper

Sunset Park man arraigned in hammer attack that left mother dead, children injured: DA

Brooklyn brute who attacked senior

Brooklyn

Brooklyn brute beat senior so bad that the victim lost sight and hearing: cops

Posted on September 16, 2023

Police escort suspect in Upper East Side subway shoving

Upper East Side

Upper East Side subway shove suspect nabbed by cops for assaulting senior

Posted on September 15, 2023

Man stabbed in the East Village by skateboarder: cops

Posted on September 12, 2023

Police arrested 47-year-old Liyong Ye for allegedly killing a mother and critically injuring her two children with a hammer.

Police charge man for Brooklyn hammer attack that killed mother, critically injured two children

Posted on August 24, 2023

Upper East Side crime scene

Brooklyn

Brooklyn brutes sought for violently attacking two men at street corner

Posted on August 19, 2023

suspect wanted for attacking man in the Bronx

Bronx

Machete wielding suspect wanted for attacking man in the Bronx last month: NYPD

Posted on August 14, 2023

Close up of metal handcuffs

Cops nab Bronx man who allegedly tried to rape woman during terrifying attack on Manhattan subway train

Posted on June 29, 2023

man who allegedly punched a woman in the face

Brooklyn

Brooklyn attack: Cops looking for deranged man who allegedly punched woman in face at Atlantic Avenue subway station

Posted on June 9, 2023

More from around NYC

roads to success

CM Riley, Roads to Success and AIMHIGH sponsoring 40 Bronx youths to attend financial empowerment conference

Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the first African-American to play in the major leagues.

Jackie Robinson’s ties to Queens go beyond the parkway bearing his name: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

NY: A Night at Niblo’s Garden – Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery honors William Niblo with sold-out Victorian spectacle

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens at a Make Oklahoma Healthy Again kickoff event at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. June 26, 2025.

RFK abruptly cancels meeting of task force responsible for determining preventive services