By Gus Saltonstall
A woman was shot Thursday night on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
The 55-year-old woman was grazed in the hip by a bullet around 8:40 p.m. at West 108th Street and Central Park West, NYPD said. She was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, police added.
The NYPD spokesperson wasn’t able to provide more information Friday morning about what led up to the shooting, but ABC7 reports that the gunman was on a city bus traveling down Central Park West, when he spotted someone he recognized.
The suspect then told the bus driver to stop, before getting off the bus and firing a bullet at the person, but he missed his target and ended up grazing the woman who happened to be standing in the same area, ABC7 reported.
NYPD confirmed to the Rag that there have been no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.
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It’s been 15 hours without an arrest. We need a townhall and a statement from GB.
Why do you use initials? Are you referring to Gail brewer?
NYPD will just pass the buck to the ASPCA or something
We need a townhall? Why, so UWSers can listen to the same incompetent politicians make excuses for the policies they enacted and then the people after latening and complaining can go vote for these same pols over and over again?
this is not Gale Brewer’s district. It’s council district 7 -Sean Abreu
Even worse.
Why “even worse”? Name one position of Sean Abreu’s you don’t support.
My sense is that some people on this site just like to kvetch. For some people, there has NEVER been a time they would have felt the neighborhood was flourishing.
Let’s be honest — his height and weight anti-discrimination bill is just because he’s short.
I’d comment on this but it is too easy.
Wake up people.
Vote better.
I’ve tried. Voted for Kenniff over Bragg. But, alas, knew that so many here would dutifully pull the lever for Bragg because he had a “D” next to his name, and they could never bring themselves to vote “R.”
My lease is up at the end of June, and I’ll be heading north, out of NYC.
Looks like a comment to me (one of your classically tired ones). Good work as usual.
Thanx.
I try.
I am also tired of hearing bad things happening to law-abiding citizens,
The person who was shot, will most likely have their life changed forever.
We need new leadership starting at the state level (Albany) on down.
It is as simple as that.
I would rather say we need leadership cause we lack one!!!!!
Because there is “leadership” out there somewhere that can prevent any bad things from happening to law-abiding citizens??
There is no violent crime today against law-abiding citizens in U.S. states with a Republican governor and a Republican legislature??
There is no violent crime today against law-abiding citizens in cities that have a Republican Mayor and a Republican District Attorney??
There was no violent crime in New York when Nelson Rockefeller or Malcolm Wilson or George Pataki were Governors? There was no violent crime in New York City when Rudy Giuliani or John Lindsay were Mayor?
Oh, wait…I’m sorry. Crime rates are actually higher right now in several states with Republican governors and several cities with Republican Mayors! Crime rates in New York were actually higher when Rockefeller, Wilson and Pataki were Governor and Lindsay and Giuliani were Mayor! I guess there actually is not a 1-to-1 correlation, despite the easy rhetoric. I guess there actually is not a simple, pat answer to eliminating all crime! Who knew?
Sanity rules!
You realize that crime rates are highly susceptible to manipulation and influenced by the decisions of prosecutors…right? When charges are reduced or dropped, when prosecutors refuse to charge at all…crime rates magically drop. When the police don’t make arrests because they know that person will be back on the street in hours…crime rates magiclly drop.
In a word: untrue.
Thanks for providing this Jerry, nuance and critical thinking are out of fashion with today’s Republicans.
Greetings,
The gist of your counter-argument is that there is crime in Republican
states/localities and it is higher also.
A point that could be proven or disproven depending upon the stat’s
used.
With that being said my solution would be the following:
1. Make shoplifting illegal again.
2. Make fare beating illegal again.
3. Enforce “quality of life crimes”.
4. Roll back bail reform.
5. Mandatory 1 year sentence for possesion of illegal firearm(s).
Third rail one get ready:
6. Bring back Stop/Question/Frisk.
(Curtailed gun usage and posession)
Once they catch the alleged suspect I am curious if 4 and 5 above
would have prevented the shooting ?
Thanx in advance for your feedback and discourse.
You mean vote for someone who is not a republican and a resident of Fort Lee?
You commented.
When you always comment the same thing over and over again, yes I guess it is simple.
Yet you are commenting on this… to state the obvious, “vote better” is not a solution, it’s not like Silwa or any Republicans have any magic ideas to stop all gun crimes
What’s a “gun crime”? 🤔
A criminal act involving a gun – like shooting someone.
Adams is a long time Republican.
Adams registered as a Republican in 1997 before switching back to the Democratic Party in 2001, according to the Board of Elections. Adams has said his switch to the Republican Party was a protest move against what he saw as failed Democratic leadership.
Exactly, we already have an ex-Cop Republican for mayor that was heavily endorsed by the NYPost lets not forget, hasn’t exactly turned out great!
You’re reaching.
You also ignored the fact that he was a resident of Fort Lee, NJ while he was Brooklyn Borough President.
“failed Democratic leadership”?
Some Democratic Party failures, circa 2001: endorsing the “war on terror”, largely signing on to the patriot act, and in NY State refusing to discuss reinstituting the NYC commuter tax. In 2001, did Adams stand up and say: “I can’t support these positions of NY Democrats”?
New Mexico, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alaska have the highest crime rates per capita in the US. Tell me how voting “better” works.
What is a crime in NYC? Who compiled those stats? What are their political leanings? How many crimes go unreported in NYC every day? One way to lower crime rates is decriminalize all sorts of behaviors.
The stats are maintained by the NYPD, by career people with tenure meaning they’d blow the whistle if someone ordered them tampered with.
And if you know the people who work law enforcement you know most ain’t liberals.
And the data shows we’re quite a bit safer now than in Rudy Giuliani’s best year.
I can’t hear this nonsense about stats. Stats are crunched and doctored all the time, in any area and profession, to be in sync with current directives.
Stats are numbers, and numbers don’t lie. Even when you’re wearing a tin foil hat.
That’s complete nonsense. Crimes are regularly downgraded to help out the precinct captain
Only stats you can trust are murders and car thefts. Very difficult to fudge those numbers
Exactly. You can’t fudge murder and auto theft. And those numbers are down even more than the remaining major crimes rates.
What does that tell you?
How many felonies has Alvin Bragg downgraded to misdemeanors? How many cases are dropped? How did adding new categories like misdemeanor assault change crime stats? The NYPD isn’t what it was 25-30 years ago.
Perer,
Is Bragg the DA of NYC?
No. He is DA of NY County, which is one of five NYC counties.
Is New York County the most populous county in NYC?
No. It is the third most populous.
I’m not aware of Bragg downgrading violent felony charges (and there has to be an arrestee for there to be charges) for crimes like this shooting.
I guess the fact that the PD is the keeper of the data didn’t register with you.
Bragg has nothing to do with it.
I am going to vote for Timmins for DA, but there seems little chance he’ll unseat Bragg.
Definitely Timmins for me. I don’t know how can anyone vote for Bragg given his disastrous term.
Maybe you mean the M10?
Oddly, one story said “M18” although the M10 is usually the only southbound bus one would see on CPW/108. Even the Riverdale BxM18, which does go over to the West side further uptown, briefly, doesnt usually go down CPW. I haven’t looked at video.
This is a much bigger deal than the whole dog incident, looking forward to the immediate townhall with Gale and continuous pressure on the NYPD to catch the suspect.
Might be a bigger deal but the laws and procedures are already in place to handle the situation. – that’s the distinction.
this is not Gale’s district, for what it’s worth. It is council district 7 (Sean Abreu)
So let me see if I follow your logic: Gale Brewer should not be concerned with (and the police should be exempt from enforcing) any quality of life crimes? Ms. Brewer and the police should only focus on violent crime? And a UWS resident whose dog may be attacked by fearsome and aggressive dogs–repeat offenders with an irresponsible and law-violating owner–should just shut up about their concerns?
If the victim had been a dog, perhaps
But were any dogs injured? I hope not.
It’s actually a tough, random, case. Guy in black on bus sees someone he has a beef with, jumps off bus, shoots, flees. Target presumably makes themselves scarce. Innocent shooting victim (thankfully recovering well!) was just walking to catch bus. Unless somebody calls a tip line, or there is great surveillance video, there is just very little to go on.
At last some logic!
Most people see someone they recognize and quickly take out their phone to pretend they don’t see them, and avoid the stop and chat. This guy takes that avoidance tactic a few steps further. Humans are in a bad place.
Shaun Abreu needs to do much better on crime.
Abreu or someone campaigning for him is often at the 97th St farmer’s market on Fridays. You can go there and if he’s around you can tell him your views about his effectiveness.
Would like more detail on “The suspect then told the bus driver to stop” – was the bus driver threatened? (assault is a felony) Did the bus stop at a regular stop? Are all buses equipped with cameras at this point? If so, is this part of the investigation? I agree with others who’ve commented that this is more important than the escalation of the dog mauling issue – although there is way too much dog poop on the pavements and too many dogs off the leash in Riverside at all hours. If the dog mauling leads to more enforcement of the dog “laws” that would be great.
Classic!
why isn’t there a “nationwide manhunt” like there was for the healthcare ceo worth millions of $$$$?
Because that person died?
We have no gun control in this country. GOP fights it at every turn and the Dems “write stern letters”. Until we do, even states with stronger gun laws like NYS will remain victims of this insanity.
I hope there’s follow-up on this story (and of course obviously I hope the perp is caught – shouldn’t be too difficult since his victim apparently knew him, as apparently he knew her?). Another question I have: why did the bus driver stop the bus in response to a request from the shooter?? I’ve never been on a public bus where the driver would pull over at my request (nor should they). Did the shooter threaten the bus driver with the gun and command that he pull over? And finally – are there cameras on the buses?
I don’t know enough about it to place blame, but it just all seems to be a breakdown of a sick society.
See a lot of people complaining about dem leadership but can’t really imagine what you are expecting a city councilmember to do. This is NYC, crimes happen. The only obvious solution here, to me, is related to gun control, which is beyond the scope of local governance.
Guns don’t kill people.