By Carol Tannenhauser
A single gunshot rang out this afternoon at 3:45 p.m. near W. 106th Street and Riverside Park, police and WSR reader Greg Navarro informed the Rag. “I’m here at the Andy Kessler Skatepark and there was a daylight shooting in front of me with 2 suspects and several officers,” Navarro wrote. “I only heard 1 gunshot fired and 1 tazzering. 2 suspects were caught.” All that police had to add at this point is that “a car was stopped by the police, for reasons yet unknown. The occupants got out and ran. A shot was fired. The suspects were apprehended and arrested. No one was injured.”
We will keep you posted.
Updated, 1/7, 2:29 a.m.: Details are still murky, but this incident apparently began when a shot was fired from a vehicle at 23 W. 75th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, at 3:49 p.m. on Friday, according to an NYPD spokesperson. Police pursued the vehicle to W. 106th Street and the Henry Hudson Parkway, where they pulled it over. Three people fled from the vehicle, but were apprehended by the police and taken into custody. Two firearms were recovered. There were no injuries, and no other shots were fired.
Updated, 1/8, 4:41 a.m.: the names and charges against those arrested were listed in the Daily News. They are: “Bronx resident Mark McFadden, New Jersey resident Alfonso Washington, and Joseph Gallishaw of Brooklyn. McFadden, 53, was charged with attempted murder, attempted assault and attempted aggravated assault to a police officer along with reckless endangerment, weapons possession and criminal possession of stolen property. Washington, also 53, and Gallishaw, 50, were charged with weapons, stolen property and drug possession along with reckless endangerment, cops said.”
Riverside Park has always been dangerous, it’s literally in shambles these days with all of the orange mesh and barricades blocking off the crumbling steps and holes into the tunnel under the park.
I think you should take a walk in the park. It is being upgraded all the time, and as for safety perhaps you haven’t walked there since the 70s, but it is very busy, too many bicycles and scooters, but other than that an amazing escape from the city just a block and 1 staircase away.
Umm, nothing happened in Riverside Park aside from the chase ending there.
I have enjoyed Riverside park for over two decades with family and children and by myself. It was always nice and safe till the last few years.
No. Riverside Park was not always nice and safe. I grew up going there since the 1970s. I had my bike stolen right by the monument when I was 10. And by the early 80s women were dragged into the park and raped. And then during the crack epidemic, people were living underground on the tracks, and homelessness everywhere. It looked like San Francisco today, with glass pipes instead of syringes. It wasn’t safe near the boat basin either, a lot of men used to “cruise” that area, and some became victims of crime. My dogs used to always find human decal matter— it’s obvious when you see it, and it smelled awful, it was all over the place. Some of the people on the tracks below the promenade, actually built sheet rock structures with stolen electricity, they had coffee makers and TV sets. As much as I despise Rudolph Giuliani today, he was a Brooklyn prosecutor, known to put the mob in jail, and New Yorkers couldn’t take it anymore, Koch was bad, and Dinkins was the absolute worst. In fact, this may I remind me of David Dinkins. And Rudy absolutely deserves the credit for cleaning up New York City, he was not the 911 mayor he claimed, and he was not particularly moral, he left his wife while he was serving as mayor allegedly having an affair, but that’s neither here nor there, he got rid of the crime and homelessness and even the panhandling on the streets and subways -there was no way to do it nicely. I think her strategy was put everyone in jail, every crackhead, every dealer, every homeless person. And guess what? It worked. It was extremely aggressive, but it laid the groundwork for everything that Bloomberg did, so Bloomberg deserves all the credit, after the hard part was already done.
Too bad crime was higher in every category when Giuliani was Mayor than it is now. So much for “cleaning up the city”.
This is a very inhumane comment. Advocate for a more just society.
I know what you mean. The other day I asked a fellow UWS-er and Riverside Park goer to join me at the Broadway play Between Riverside and Crazy. She replied, “I don’t need to see the play, I live it every day.”
(Btw the play is marvelous!)
Really? It has always been generally safe crime wise to me in the the daytime. The night is a different story but that goes without saying in any public park this size in the city. Structurally yes, there are a lot of areas that are worn down and show their lack of care and age but to me it’s still one of my fav parks in the city and I’ve lived here and various neighborhoods my whole life
These guys shot someone on 75th between Columbus/CPW and cops tracked them up to Riverside and apprehended them there.
Is this related to the shooting on W75th? I have seen reporting that they were connected.
Read the article
At least one helicopter hovered over the park for hours, extremely low and close to the high-rise apartment buildings. Unnerving.
my coop building at RSD & 109 had the chopper pass directly over it many times, really low! It was weird, then I took pictures of the choppers.
What is unnerving is the consistency with which certain political parties hold office during this decline.
The police response to this incident was scary. I was out walking my dog near 105 and the park when the police cars came flying up Riverside Drive, with several driving on the wrong side of the street, others driving on the pedestrian promenade and still others driving down in the park itself. All had lights on but not all had their sirens on. A car just ahead of me was forced to suddenly turn onto the sidewalk when a police car with no sirens on shot through a stop sign in front of it. The police are lucky they didn’t themselves cause injuries or deaths while in pursuit of these people.
You know what’s even MORE scary? No police response.
Also, gunfire in the neighborhood.
Dollars to ding-dongs this is related to unlicensed cannabis sales.
I doubt that connection. The person who was shot is a shady character who is known in the neighborhood—this is the second hit attempt on him since summer. Seems like organized crime. His father Alben Sagan was profiled by DNAinfo several years ago. It’s a bizarre story.
wow – wild story and, if connection is accurate, lends even less weight to the “out-of-control crime in Riverside Park” narrative people seem so anxious to push here
Is there more info on who was shot on 75th? He was actually hit? I thought the bullets missed. I live on this block and walked past the scene at around 415 on Friday.
Bravo to the police for chasing down armed criminals that have no qualms about killing a human being.
Please fix all the broken stairs and crumbling walls in Riverside.
YES! THE DISREPAIR IN THE PARK IS ALSO DANGEROUS TO PEOPLE. IT’S BEEN REPORTED MANY TIMES TO THE PARK CONSERVANCY AND POLITICIANS. NOTHING IS DONE. A FEW DAYS AGO BIRD FEEDERS WERE MALICIOUSLY TAKEN DOWN BY THE PARKS DEPT. THEY CAME WITH WIRE CUTTERS AND STOLE THE FEEDERS. MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDING MYSELF LOVED TO COME AND WATCH THE BIRDS. THIS WAS IN THE “FOREVER WILD” PORTION OF THE PARK ORIGINALLY STARTED BY THE AUDUBON SOCIETY AS A BIRD SANCTUARY. THE GARBAGE WHICH IS BRINGING RATS AND MICE IS STREWN ALL OVER AND NOTHING IS DONE . THE STAIRS IN THAT SECTION ARE BROKEN CAUSED BY THE PARKS DEPT. DRIVING A VEHICLE THERE WHICH GOT STUCK LAST SPRING AND STILL NOT REPAIRED. DISGUSTING HOW THE PARKS DEPT. WON’T TACKLE WHAT’S NEEDED, BUT WILL PICK ON HARMLESS BIRD FEEDERS WHICH BROUGHT JOY TO MANY. ALSO, DOGS ARE ALWAYS LEFT OFF LEASHES WHICH IS AGAINST PARK REGULATIONS AND NOBODY GETS TICKETED. HOW ABOUT FIXING REAL PROBLEMS AND LEAVE THE BIRDS ALONE!!!!!!
Not crazy about the ALL CAPS SHOUTING but do agree on the theme of misrepair.
To wit – if this city doesn’t finish fixing the 101/102 st soccer field running track by this Spring I am going to SCREAM !!!!!
What a mess – criminals from Brooklyn, New Jersey, and the Bronx. Glad the police got them .
I was walking down Riverside Drive when I saw people rapidly coming up the steps at 108th St from Riverside Park , saying there was a shooting. I turned around and police were running down Riverside Drive with their guns drawn-that was scary!–I pointed to the stairs and down they went. At least a dozen policemen running down RSD. Shortly after, there were four helicopters hovering overhead for a very long time. I ‘d like WSR to do a story on the guy who apparently was shot on W. 75th St! That sounds like a good one. Glad nobody else was hurt. Too many guns in Manhattan!! Mayor Adams, we need to do more buybacks of guns!!!
Thank you for updating your readers