A woman was shot in the hand and hospitalized following a shooting near West 142nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, police say. The incident marks the latest in a string of gunfire along the same stretch of the busy Harlem corridor over the past several years.
Details of the shooting remain limited. According to CBS News New York, the woman was shot in the hand and taken to the hospital following the incident, which police say happened in Harlem near West 142nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. No further details about a suspect, motive, or the woman’s condition were included in that report.
The intersection sits within the NYPD’s 32nd Precinct, which covers northern Harlem from West 133rd Street to West 155th Street and is headquartered seven blocks south at 250 West 135th Street, according to transit mapping service Moovit. The location also lies roughly seven blocks from Harlem Hospital at West 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, which functions as the primary Level 1 municipal trauma center for upper Manhattan, per property listing site Compass — a detail that matters for how quickly severe gunshot victims in the neighborhood typically reach emergency care.
A Corridor With A Recent History Of Gunfire
This is not the first time gunfire has struck this exact stretch of Frederick Douglass Boulevard. In June 2022, a shooting at the very same intersection of West 142nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard wounded two men in the leg, both of whom were treated at Harlem Hospital, according to Patch. And in March 2025, a double shooting just steps away at 2660 Frederick Douglass Boulevard left two men with gunshot wounds to the chest and back, who were later hospitalized in stable condition, per a report from FreedomNewsTV…