Tag: crime

December 29, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 37 Degrees.

December 27, 2011 Weather: Afternoon Rain and Wind, High of 56 Degrees.

December 16, 2011 Weather: Windy, High of 52 Degrees.

This weekend has been a relatively violent one on the Upper West Side, with at least two serious incidents. On Friday just before midnight, three young men were shot in front of the building at 175 West 90th Street off of Amsterdam Avenue (pictured above). Details of the shooting, reported ...

The shimmering Apple store on 67th Street and Broadway makes an architectural statement, and that statement is "Come in and worship, and then swipe your credit card into this neat little machine." But for months the glass facade of the store was marred by huge black panels installed to cover ...

The shootout on Thursday night that we reported with the help of some nearby residents just took an extra-strange turn... and just in time for Halloween. According to Leslie Albrecht at DNAinfo, who talked to an unidentified source, the officer who was assaulted on 91st Street and Riverside Drive was ...

An off-duty police officer was assaulted around 91st Street and Riverside Drive around 10:40 p.m. Thursday night, and the suspect stole his gun, an NYPD spokesman said. During the struggle, shots were fired, although it's unclear if the officer fired the shots or if the suspect did. As of 1:30 ...

Apparently, a bully is on the loose on the Upper West Side, allowing his kid to step on people's glasses and then...not apologizing! That is the gist of a drawing that has been taped to poles around 94th Street in the last few days. You can see it above, in ...

October 17, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 67 Degrees.

Teenager Sean Hines was found dead in his 92nd Street apartment Friday night from a stab wound to the leg, and police took his mother and stepfather in for questioning. The 18-year-old lived in the Wise Towers housing project between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. “My husband did that. ...

September 9, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 83 Degrees. News: Fashion designer Marc Jacobs' bags are hot -- so hot in fact that people are stealing them right off the shelves. A thief with high-end taste walked into the Barney's Coop on Broadway and 76th Street yesterday and asked ...

September 6, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 65 Degrees. Notices: The Riverside Park Fund is looking for people to volunteer at the 9th Annual West Side County Fair on Saturday. "Over 20 volunteers needed from 12-6pm to help with the games booths, crowd control at the animal area, and more ...

William Gibbs, a suspect in a string of Chelsea muggings targeting elderly men, is thought to have struck on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, assaulting and robbing an 85-year-old man at the B/C station on 72nd Street. The mugger grabbed the victim by his neck and threw him to ...

August 9, 2011 Weather: Afternoon thunderstorms, High of 85 Degrees. News: A food cart vendor on 86th Street and Central Park West has been battling with neighbors and the health department for years. They claim the owner, Mohamed Abdala, basically lives in the cart and doesn't clean it, and the ...

A man has been groping women on the Upper East Side for 10 months now, and it appears he may have moved his attacks across town. On Friday night, a 28-year-old woman reported being groped at 66th Street just off Central Park West inside the park, and the man who ...

August 5, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 83 Degrees. News: Fairway is selling a new kind of bread dedicated to Simon & Garfunkel. "Scarborough Fair" bread is made with "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme..." Unfortunately, it's only available at the new Upper East Side location for now even though ...

July 21, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 95 Degrees. News: Jewish Home Lifecare, an Upper West Side nursing home, had planned to relocate to 100th Street from 106th Street, but is now considering a 97th Street spot because of community opposition. But locals don't want the nursing home at ...

July 6, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 91 Degrees. Notices: Beacon Paint & Hardware wants to hold a blood drive on Tuesday, July 26 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. But they need to sign up at least 25 more people to get nurses to come. The summer is ...

July 1, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Release your inner beast! Planet of the Apes is showing tonight. Check out our calendar. News: Amsterdam Video, the last sex toy/adult video shop on the Upper West Side on Amsterdam Avenue between 73rd and 74th Streets, has closed ...

June 27, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center's summertime outdoor dance lesson/live music show, starts tonight in Damrosch Park with a free program featuring The Jonathan Stout Orchestra. The swinging continues through July 16. Check out more of this week's events on ...