Tag: violence

Parents, co-op board members and other locals pressed NYPD Lt. Matthew Bases for an update on recently reported gang violence

Two attacks were reported this weekend in Central Park, and as of Sunday afternoon police had not caught the perpetrators. In the first attack, at

Gunfire, a gunpoint robbery of a diner employee, and an assault kept police busy over the last few days.

We received another report from this weekend of violence between young men in the west 90's. In recent weeks, residents and police have

The violent maniac who raped and assaulted an Upper West Side woman last year was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week, and the woman she attacked wanted to remind him of

Several victims remained in the hospital after the attacks this morning in Riverside Park, in which police say a deranged homeless man identified as Julius Graham randomly stabbed five people with scissors. Graham first stabbed a female runner around 65th street in the park, then he stabbed a man walking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...