Tag: crime

Ten 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 ...

British 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 ...

A 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 ...

Parents 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 ...

Queens 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. ...

Irving 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 ...

December 14, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 47 Degrees.

December 13, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 44 Degrees.

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, ...