Tag: crime

Two men wearing ski masks held up sisters visiting from California at gunpoint on Sunday night around

A man posing as a police officer has been scamming elderly women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars

The NYPD has released a map showing the number of crimes in each neighborhood in the city, allowing users to zoom in to the street level. The Upper West Side is

Multiple people were robbed late last month in Central Park by teenagers who were willing to use force to get what they

Below, check out some of the news about the Upper West Side published in other outlets over the past week.

On Saturday at about 12:30 a.m., police responded to a report of shots fired in front of 2540 Broadway at 95th street, but they

Ferraris may be sleek, but they can't fit under a truck, a fact that the driver above learned the hard way on 69th street and

The violent maniac who raped and assaulted an Upper West Side woman last year was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week, and the woman she attacked wanted to remind him of

A man was shot around 88th street and Amsterdam Avenue early Tuesday morning after getting into an altercation with two men that

Police 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.

Several 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 ...

One 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 ...

A 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 ...

A 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 ...

A 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.

There 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 ...

Below, we've compiled some stories published about the neighborhood in other media outlets over the past week.

A 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. ...

It'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

Two 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 ...