The NYPD’s 20th and 24th Precincts on the Upper West Side have been issuing fewer moving violation summonses to drivers even as traffic increases during the city’s post-Covid-19 comeback.
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The NYPD’s 20th and 24th Precincts on the Upper West Side have been issuing fewer moving violation summonses to drivers even as traffic increases during the city’s post-Covid-19 comeback.
Read moreDetailsMultiple gunshots rang out around 2:22 p.m. Tuesday afternoon along
Read moreDetailsA local man, Roderick Smith, 30, was arrested Wednesday afternoon after allegedly robbing or attempting to rob three Upper West Side banks over the past two days, an NYPD spokesperson told WSR.
Read moreDetailsLast week, Gov. Cuomo gave Broadway the green light to move toward resuming performances. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more excited about that than four-time Tony Award-winning director and long-time Upper West Sider Jerry Zaks
Read moreDetailsAt around 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning, a man in his 20s stepped out of a white sedan and began shooting
Read moreDetailsOsteoStrong, a franchised fitness center, focusing on skeletal strength and bone density, has opened at 245 West 72nd Street
Read moreDetailsTop NYPD officials -- including Commissioner Dermot Shea -- fielded UWS residents’ questions Thursday evening
Read moreDetailsThe confessed ‘Done’ graffiti tagger says he’s cleaning up his act, and volunteered for NYPD’s citywide “Graffiti Clean Up” event on Saturday to start making amends to his community.
Read moreDetailsOn Friday morning around 11:23 a.m., a man approached a 36-year-old Hispanic man on the southwest corner of West 84th Street and Columbus Avenue and
Read moreDetailsA suspect in a spree of five recent bank robberies -- four on the Upper West Side -- was arrested Thursday morning,
Read moreDetailsSix seconds. That’s how long the light had been red when Jessenia Fajardo, 40, drove an SUV into the crosswalk at West End Avenue and 98th Street, causing
Read moreDetailsFrustrated by e-bikers “going 20, 30 miles an hour,” putting his outdoor dining customers and employees at risk, Flor de Mayo restaurant manager José Chu decided to try a new tactic on Wednesday.
Read moreDetailsHeavy smoke poured from a fourth-floor apartment at 249 W. 62nd Street near West End Avenue on Wednesday afternoon around 1:52 p.m.
Read moreDetailsKira C. clearly remembers the moment when Jessenia Fajardo drove an SUV through a red light on West End Avenue at 98th Street, striking her and fatally injuring Alfred Pocari, 62, on the afternoon of July 19, 2019.
Read moreDetailsMultiple shots rang out around 4:59 a.m. Saturday morning near 248 W. 62nd Street at West End Avenue, home to the NYCHA Amsterdam Houses development
Read moreDetailsShootings, public pooping and pedestrians’ fears of reckless drivers were among the issues discussed at Saturday’s 24th Precinct Community Council meeting held at the Firemen’s Memorial at 100th Street in Riverside Park.
Read moreDetailsAt around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, a man entered the Citibank at 170 West 72nd Street near Broadway
Read moreDetailsGraffiti scrawls of “Done” and “Done with Life” have increasingly appeared in Riverside Park over the past few weeks
Read moreDetailsThe City’s contract with the Hotel Association of New York City to provide emergency housing to people experiencing homelessness during the Covid-19 crisis has grown to $299,790,000
Read moreDetailsThieves on the Upper West Side are currently targeting unguarded packages and motorcycles, Deputy Inspector Naoki Yaguchi told about 40 residents gathered Wednesday
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