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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 ...

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 73-year-old woman out birdwatching around noon on Wednesday was hit on the head, robbed and raped in the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park, according to police.  The attacker reportedly approached her in the park around 74th Street just off of Central Park West. Another birdwatcher found the woman ...

Obviously, on the anniversary of September 11, everyone's on high alert. This morning around 11:30, police were called to 50 West 72nd Street, which is just East of Columbus Avenue, on reports of a suspicious device, according to scanner traffic. When we arrived at the scene around 11:45, the half-dozen ...

Since we reported a couple of weeks ago that police in Central Park were cracking down on bicyclists who break the law when riding in Central Park, we've heard about some action in the park. Police have been out with speed guns, and have been

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

Blind lawyer Richard Bernstein was hit by a bicyclist last week, fracturing his pelvis and hip, bloodying his face, and causing him to have to drop out of the New York City marathon. He had been walking in the park at East 90th Street wearing a bright yellow shirt and ...

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 ...

National Night Out, which starts tonight at 6, is an annual event where locals can bring their kids and meet police officers in a relaxed setting. The events tend to include food and entertainment, along with activities like face-painting for kids. Below, check out the locations of this year's events:

Ollie's Noodle Shop at 2925 Broadway (between 89th and 90th) was robbed sometime late last night or early this morning, as burglars smashed through the front door, the NYPD told us. But the thieves apparently didn't get much. So far, the full extent of the losses appears to be "approximately ...

A tipster tells us that the NYPD's bomb squad taped off an area in Central Park just West of the Great Lawn this afternoon and has been telling people to avoid the immediate area. An officer  yelled "Bomb Squad" at him and told him to walk away from the Bridle ...

June 11, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 76 Degrees.

The NYPD sent us the above sketch of a man accused of robbing the Apple Bank at 73rd Street and Broadway. Police are looking for the public's help in catching him. First of all, if you've seen this guy, let the police know. The number's at the bottom. For the ...

April 20, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 71 Degrees.

The 24th Precinct as seen a spike in major crimes this year, with felony incidences rising more than 25% through the first week of April. In particular, felony assaults have risen 35% and burglaries have more than doubled, to 37. Robberies, however, are down 17%, and there have been no ...

Police are looking for a man they say tried to rape a woman running in Riverside Park at about 6 p.m. Friday night. The 24-year-old woman saw the man approaching from behind with his genitals exposed as she ran on a dirt path between 122nd and 125th Streets. He grabbed ...

April 5, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 57 Degrees.

April 4, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 67 Degrees.

Hollywood has always romanticized bank robbers, even when they were not romantic or even attractive at all. But now the Upper West Side appears to have an honest-to-goodness romantic bank robber. He brings flowers to his robberies. All together now: Awwwwww. Police are seeking the man in the picture above, ...