Tag: crime

A 30-year-old woman was stabbed this morning on Central Park's Great Hill around 103rd Street shortly before 11 a.m., and a four-year-old child sustained a thumb injury. The woman's common law husband is in custody, according to media reports. The man appears to have slashed his wrists after stabbing the ...

Police released the photos above of two men wanted in a knife-point robbery in the 72nd Street B/C train station on November 20. Two men stole a 38-year-old man's wallet and

November 28, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 41 Degrees.

November 27, 2012 Weather: Rain/snow, High of 36 Degrees.

November 19, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 48 Degrees.

Police are looking for a boy (12-14 years old) who they say groped a 24-year-old woman who was running in the northwest section of the park on Friday night. A group of 5 teens stopped

Hurricane Sandy may have pushed the awful murders of two Upper West Side children off of the front pages of newspapers. But Upper West Siders are still grieving. Tonight, community members will come together in Riverside Park for a flashlight vigil to remember Lulu Krim, 6, and Leo Krim, 2.

Hackers planted bugs in a credit card reader at the Barnes & Noble on 82nd Street and Broadway, along with 62 other Barnes & Noble stores around the country, potentially stealing customers' card and pin number data. "We have detected a sophisticated criminal effort to steal credit and debit card ...

Some criminals use Mustangs as getaway cars. Others prefer SUV's. But two Upper West Side thieves attempted a daring escape this week on the M7 bus, according to police. They didn't get far. Joseph Melendez and Kenneth Wimberley walked into clothing store Theory on 69th Street and Columbus on Wednesday. ...

David Albert Mitchell, the homeless man accused of raping a 73-year-old woman in Central Park on September 12, assaulted two other women while he was fleeing the scene of the crime, prosecutors said on Tuesday as they charged him with seven felonies. After raping a birdwatcher in Central Park at ...

A 14-year-old boy riding the 1 train near the 86th Street stop was robbed of his cell phone by a man wielding a hypodermic needle on Friday morning around 8:30 a.m., police said. The man began chatting with the teen on the train before showing him the needle and then ...

The New York Post has added some details to the story we broke on Wednesday about a disturbing attack against Lansky's Old World Deli on Columbus Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets. The Jewish-style restaurant was severely defaced after closing time on Tuesday, with computers, toilets, plates and refrigerators smashed, ...

Lansky's, the popular Jewish-style deli on Columbus Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets, was the victim of a strange and disturbing overnight attack that will keep the restaurant closed for at least two days. Owner David Ruggerio told us that someone wrenched open the restaurant's sliding doors and broke in ...

Three tipsters have sent in word that there was a shooting on 93rd Street off of Riverside Drive on Friday night around 8 p.m. One said that a delivery man had been held up at 316 West 93rd Street. Emily Baer, one of our reporters, said that multiple witnesses confirmed ...

David Albert Mitchell was arrested on Thursday after being picked out of a lineup by a 73-year-old woman who said he raped her in Central Park on Wednesday morning. He was charged with rape, assault, predatory sex act, criminal sex act, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property. The New ...

The victim of a rape in broad daylight in Central Park's Strawberry Fields gave a fiery interview to the New York Post yesterday after her shockingly brutal ordeal. Her account is terrifying, but she refuses to be terrified: The 73-year-old was birdwatching in the park around 74th Street and Central ...

A 19-year-old woman reported being raped in Riverside Park around 96th Street Monday morning around 2:30 a.m. She was transported to St. Luke's Hospital and was in

A three-block area on the Upper West Side has become quite a battleground. Two homeless shelters recently opened on 95th Street with little warning despite angry protests, there have been two fatal stabbings (on 95th and 93rd) blocks apart in the past few weeks, and now this: a man was ...

By Katie Barry I'm called crazy a lot. Usually for costume choices or competing in bizarre contests. But my friend Eddie Spaghetti dubbed this "passionate crazy," not "crazy-crazy" which is far freakier than my imagination can ever go. I was tossing a football around on a Saturday afternoon on a ...

Police are looking for the man in the above sketch who they say tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl on 61st Street and Amsterdam Avenue around 4:45 p.m. on July 31. The man tried to grab the girl, but she pulled away twice, according to police. The man then fled ...