Tag: crime

An increase in thefts and robberies led to a 33% jump in overall major crimes in Central Park last year, and many of those crimes appear to have been committed by young people, according

Police are looking for the man shown in surveillance footage above for an alleged stabbing inside West Side Market on Broadway between 97th and 98th Streets on Sunday.

Police arrested a 25-year-old man named Darryl Naser from Queens on Friday and charged him with multiple thefts at the AMC movie theater on Broadway between 67th and 68th Streets.

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed on 107th Street and Manhattan Avenue on Wednesday night, and a corrections officer was charged with the murder.

Three local restaurants were burglarized on Monday, with thieves stealing cash -- and in two cases ripping off the restaurants' modems too.

A rash of burglaries has spread through one section of the neighborhood in recent days, and police sent out images of people wanted in connection with the crime spree.

An 18-year-old Barnard student was pronounced dead on Wednesday night after being found with multiple stab wounds at 116th Street and Morningside Drive, police said.

A 70-year-old woman was hit in the head with a block of wood Saturday night on West 79th Street and Broadway, Deputy Inspector Timothy Malin told WSR.

A landlord of a residential building that tenants say had been without gas for 5 months was arrested earlier this week for assault and criminal mischief after a scuffle with

Police are investigating a report of gunshots on Monday around 4:30 p.m. at 101st Street and Amsterdam Avenue, the location of the Frederick Douglass Playground. No one was injured

The police have released surveillance images of one of the men they believe committed a violent home invasion early Friday morning

The crowd was larger than usual at Monday night's 20th Precinct Community Council meeting, held at the precinct house at 120 West 82nd Street, near Columbus

The alleged “lookout” in the assault and attempted robbery of a 57-year-old woman, in a scaffolding tunnel on Amsterdam Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets

Three crimes shocked the Upper West Side in the past two weeks, and led New York State Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal to request that 25 police officers,

The NYPD released a new video and offered a $2,500 reward for information about the men who viciously punched a 57-year-old woman in the face

A man was shot in front of 236 West 64th Street, outside the Amsterdam Houses, at around 4 p.m. on Monday, an NYPD spokeswoman told WSR. A suspect is in custody.

A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested and charged with violently robbing an 85-year-old woman on October 12 as she entered her building on Broadway and 74th Street.

Police say the young women shown in the surveillance images and video assaulted a woman as she entered

There were two stabbings this past week in the neighborhood, and arrests have been made in both of them, according to Deputy Inspector

Police released the images above and video below of suspects in the stabbing on Monday of a 16-year-old at the 96th Street subway station.