A man was shot around 88th street and Amsterdam Avenue early Tuesday morning after getting into an altercation with two men that
Read moreA man was shot around 88th street and Amsterdam Avenue early Tuesday morning after getting into an altercation with two men that
Read morePolice are looking for the two teenagers above, who they say have been robbing and punching Upper West Side pedestrians, and even threatening to stab them.
Read moreSeveral victims remained in the hospital after the attacks this morning in Riverside Park, in which police say a deranged homeless man identified as Julius Graham randomly stabbed five people with scissors. Graham first stabbed a female runner around 65th street in the park, then he stabbed a man walking ...
Read moreOne of the men suspected of being involved in a chase on the West Side Highway Sunday that ended with a 33-year-old man getting beaten has been arrested, and another man is being held, although he hasn't been charged. Christopher Cruz, a 28-year-old from New Jersey, was charged with reckless ...
Read moreA large pack of bikers surrounded an SUV on Sunday and eventually beat and slashed the driver, whose wife and daughter were also in the car, according to reports citing NYPD and a video of the incident. The disturbing video, which we've posted below, comes from the helmet-cam of one ...
Read moreA 29-year-old man was shot in the torso at the Douglass Houses at around 10:41 p.m. on Saturday night, and taken to St. Luke's Hospital in stable condition, the NYPD told us. The shooting occurred outside 840 Columbus Avenue, one of the buildings in the project, which stretches from 100th ...
Read moreA 30-year-old man was arrested for sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl in a bathroom stall in Riverside Park on Tuesday afternoon around 5:14 p.m., an NYPD spokesman told us.
Read moreThere have been some disturbing reports in the past few days about crimes in Central and Riverside Parks. Bicyclists have been attacked twice in Riverside Park in the past couple of weeks by thugs wielding ropes, bats and brass knuckles. The attacks happened along the Hudson above 160th street, according ...
Read moreBelow, we've compiled some stories published about the neighborhood in other media outlets over the past week.
Read moreA 30-year-old woman fought off a man who she said attempted to rape her in Central Park around 64th street early on Tuesday morning. Police released minimal official details about the crime. The Daily News and DNAinfo say the woman, an actress, met the man after drinking at a bar. ...
Read moreIt's not Washington Square Park, but Central Park has been known to attract people looking to achieve more than just a fresh-air high. So far this year the city has been cracking down on drug use at an increasing rate
Read moreTwo men were stabbed this week. In the first reported incident, a 23-year-old man was working at a kiosk on 60th street and Amsterdam Avenue at 3 a.m. on Tuesday when two other men approached him, the Daily News reported. They stabbed him multiple times in the face before grabbing ...
Read moreTen Upper West Siders have been robbed since January, possibly by a single suspect, according to police. The suspect, depicted at right, tends to target young men and women and follow them into their buildings before confronting them with a knife or gun, DNAinfo reported. The robberies have occurred in ...
Read moreBritish actor Alan Cumming, a star of The Good Wife and a one-man show of Macbeth coming to Broadway in a few days, said on twitter that he had $300 and his phone swiped from his locker at the YMCA on 63rd street a few days ago. He did not ...
Read moreA man was shot in the leg at a playground in the Amsterdam Houses project around 63rd street late Friday night. The circumstances behind the shooting were unclear, but the Daily News reported that witnesses saw the man fall after being shot above the knee in the playground near the ...
Read moreParents and staff members at the Joan of Arc schools complex on 93rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues say that a gang is intimidating and robbing students at the school. Two students were mugged for their cell phones in December, and people at the school suspect that the gang ...
Read moreQueens resident Sunando Sen was pushed in front of a 7 train and killed on Thursday night in Sunnyside. Sen had opened Amsterdam Copy & Graphics at 908 Amsterdam Avenue (between 104th and 105th) earlier this year. The shop sold printers and other equipment, as well as offering copy services. ...
Read moreIrving Farm, the coffee shop on 79th Street just East of Broadway, was visited by a man they call The Grinch last week. They say he reached into the tip jar while no one was looking and stole their tips. Well, no human was watching. The store's security camera apparently ...
Read moreDecember 14, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 47 Degrees.
Read moreDecember 13, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 44 Degrees.
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