Tag: crime

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 ...

Things get stolen in New York City. People will steal your iPad. At the pimply age of 14, I had my backpack ripped right off my back as I cried "But all I have in there is my HOMEwork!" So we take precautions. We lock things up, we put the ...

June 23, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 76 Degrees. News: Two muggers beat up a jogger and stole his iPad in Central Park around 110th Street and 5th Avenue. A few hours later, robbers stole someone's cell phone at 70th Street and Central Park West. (DNAinfo) Eight endangered skinny-billed ...

June 16, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 84 Degrees. News: The opera singer Marcella Caprario who slapped Dr. Catherine London at Trader Joe's on 72nd Street was found not guilty in criminal court yesterday. Caprario had gotten into an argument with London after London's son blocked her husband's way ...

An amateur opera singer is facing criminal charges for slapping a doctor whose family got between her and some frozen pad thai at Trader Joe's on 72nd Street and Broadway. Yes, what you just read is apparently true, courtesy of the New York Post. The Post came out with a ...

Police are looking for a man they say sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman on West 75th street and Broadway at 2:30 am on Thursday. The man threw the woman to the ground, and shoved his hands  down her underwear, according to MyFoxNY. She fought off the attacker and he ran ...

I checked in with the NYPD today to see if they'd figured out who had gone all High Noon at the Upper West Side Apple Store over the weekend, and a detective there emailed to tell me that the store appears to have been attacked, but not by a gun. ...