Tourist stabbed in leg outside Bryant Park in Midtown: sources
Sources told Eyewitness News the victim was a tourist from Canada visiting Bryant Park.
Dried blood, drugs and filth: Inside the stairwells at the Mitchel Houses
News 12 has an exclusive look inside Mitchel Houses, where residents say stairwells have become unsafe and unsanitary.
Gunman opens fire on crowded Brooklyn street before vanishing
BROOKLYN, NY – A quiet Saturday evening erupted in gunfire when an unidentified individual opened fire toward a group of people in front of 193 Sheffield Avenue around 8:35 p.m.,…
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund
An explosive audit from City Comptroller Brad Lander recommends dissolving a fund that helps finance city employees health benefits, concluding that it is billions of dollars in the red after being tapped for years by municipal unions and mayors in labor bargaining. Declaring the fund “insolvent,” Lander’s auditors...
‘I didn’t want to die’: Teen recalls mass shooting outside of Sweet 16 party
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A teenager who almost lost her life outside of a sweet 16 birthday party is starting her long road to recovery. Brooklyn native Nubia Mann was an innocent bystander, one of several teens injured in a mass shooting on Sunday, Dec. 14. Mann, a high school junior, was shot three times, […]
Asian population in Manhattan’s Chinatown plummeted amid affordability crisis
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today. The number of Asian residents in Manhattan’s Chinatown dropped by over 20% in the past decade despite an increase in the neighborhood’s overall population, according to a recent report published by the Asian American Legal Defense and...
Family seeks answers after Queens woman found dead in the Bronx
Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Queens woman whose body was found behind a Bronx apartment building just days before Christmas. The victim was identified by family as Pamela Guerrero. Her mother, Paulina Pacheco, said she is still struggling to accept that her daughter is gone. “She was...
Dangerous Reptiles Not Native To New York Found In Hudson Valley
State officials rushed in after a shocking discovery during an arrest.
Maimonides Health to merge with NYC Health + Hospitals
Brooklyn-based Maimonides Health is merging with NYC Health + Hospitals, New York City health leaders announced.
New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks...
New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock. “That's a major skill that they're not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told...
