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This article contains content summarized with AI. Learn more. An 18-year-old man wanted for an armed robbery was shot and taken into custody by NYPD officers on October 9, 2025, after he fired several rounds at police from his apartment in the Bronx. During the incident, the suspect left his apartment and injured a...

It’s not your imagination—the homelessness crisis in America has never been worse. On a single night in January 2024, the 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development showed that a staggering 771,480 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States....

Police say Cynthia Vann was assaulted at the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital and later died from her injuries. The 55-year-old’s relatives allege the staff failed to keep her safe from her roommate. [ more › ]

The super of a Brooklyn apartment building was killed during a violent dispute with a man who was allegedly part of a crew that had been stealing packages from the building since the summer, according to police and sources. The 41-year-old, a married dad of three young kids, was rushed from his building on Ocean Ave....

A mother and son were discovered mummified inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday afternoon — after residents reported a troubling smell wafting through the building for days, according to sources and authorities. The 80-year-old woman and 52-year-old man were discovered by officers who entered the building on the...

Nassau Police arrested two Manhattan residents on Sunday in connection with a Target burglary in Westbury, and the two were later released to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, according to authorities. On Sunday at 7:32 p.m., police from the department’s Third Squad responded to Target at 999...

CYPRESS HILLS – POLICE ARE SEARCHING for an unknown man who at around 2:15 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, displayed a boxcutter while in a verbal dispute with a 36-year-old man aboard a southbound S train at the Euclid Avenue A/C station. The dispute continued onto the platform, where the suspect struck the victim with an...

Several Black leaders that Eyewitness News spoke with said they're willing to be patient with Zohran Mamdani's transition, and take the mayor-elect at his word.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Nov. 12, that a Bronx man was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempted murder in the second-degree for firing shots on a crowded street, striking a 2-year-old boy in the back, as reported at the time, as he walked with his mother on Fordham Road in...

The largest known colonial burial ground for people of African descent in the United States — both free and enslaved — is in New York City. That burial ground in Lower Manhattan is a national park and monument that commemorates the forgotten and brutal history of slavery in New York City. But it’s far from the only...