By Gus Saltonstall
A 26-year-old man was shot Sunday night on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson told West Side Rag.
Officers found the man shot in his torso around 11:30 p.m. within his apartment inside the Frederick Douglass NYCHA houses near West 100th Street and Columbus Avenue, police said.
The man was taken to a local hospital in stable condition, police said.
Authorities told PIX11 that bullets were found inside of the building and that a trail of blood led to a different, nearby building.
Police are looking for four men who fled the scene on Citi Bikes, police said. There have been no arrests and it is unclear what led up to the shooting.
The shooting took place within the same stretch of blocks from West 100th to 105th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, that has seen the most shooting incidents on the Upper West Side since 2020.
Sunday night’s shooting makes it the 18th of its kind within the five block radius since 2020, according to data compiled by Gothamist.
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Why can’t they trace the citi bikes?
Need many more cameras, police, surveillance at these NYCHA complexes.
I guess Citbikes are viable crime getaway vehicles since there’s no way to uniquely identify them, same with e-scooters. This is what the absence of government looks like.
Citibikes are a means for capitalist investors to provide criminals the rope with which to hang the rest of us.
“The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is the largest and one of the oldest municipal police departments in the United States, with approximately 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees.”
Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon, police were ordering a family of immigrants selling candy and cold drinks off the subway platform at 96 and Broadway. A policewoman said police were “protecting them from the frequent gang fights on the platform.”In 10 years of frequent use of that station, my family has never seen a single fight.
But – they steer clear of NYCHA housing until there is a “serious” incident. Otherwist – no policing!
It’s amazing that between the crimes and the accidents that Citibank still not only allows but pays for their name to be used
The local precinct is at 100th between Amsterdam and Columbus – on location alone, there should be more of a deterrent effect
That was just voted one of the cities worst corners for gun shots. Funny cause just half a block west on same 100th st is a police station. So many gun shots why don’t they just put a police car there with police in it.
I understand that you feel it is your responsibility to write a story on every major crime committed on the UWS. But how about an occasional article about the relative lack of crime in this area? Or are you getting like The NY Times, which/tries their best to only print bad news?
https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/08/07/nypd-releases-citywide-and-uws-crime-stats-showing-we-are-safer-but-do-we-feel-it
https://www.westsiderag.com/2024/07/05/uws-major-crime-rate-down-4-4-in-first-half-of-2024-citywide-rate-drops-2-nypd-reports
https://www.westsiderag.com/2022/09/30/crime-on-the-upper-west-side-over-the-decades