NYC snow plow driver slammed into at least 5 parked cars — and fled...
Send in the cold case squad! City snow plow drivers slammed into at least five parked cars after the big snow storm recently — and then left the scene, according to police sources and car owners. The offending plow driver reads like a rap sheet: A woman who lives at Netherland Avenue and West 236th Street in The...
Abandoned On Brooklyn Streets, Cat Clings To The Few Remnants Of The Home He...
On Nostrand Avenue, a small cat sat among a few scattered belongings, the faint traces of a family that had suddenly vanished. The bustling city moved around him, indifferent to the loss he was still trying to understand. Every honking horn and passing footstep reminded him of what he’d lost,...
New Port Authority boss Garcia to crack down on JFK cab scams
JFK AIRPORT – KATHRYN GARCIA, FORMERLY head of the city’s Department of Sanitation, was sworn in as the new executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday. At a meeting of the PA’s board, also on Thursday, Garcia said she intends to...
NYC woman stabs roommate, dog, and pistol-whips daughter in Brooklyn: court docs
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A Brooklyn woman is facing a 15-year prison sentence after stabbing her roommate, pistol-whipping the victim’s daughter, and then stabbing the victim’s dog, according to court documents. Iescha Gowdy, 34, of East New York, will serve 15 years in prison and receive five years of post-release...
New York’s “First Free Grocery Store” Is About To Open
This sounds like a dream, but it's 100% real. New York is getting its first-ever grocery store where everything is free.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts Along I-95 See Coldest Air of...
UNITED STATES — A narrowly focused but unusually intense Arctic airmass is sliding through the Northeast, producing one of the coldest localized temperature corridors of the winter along the I-95 stretch from Philadelphia through New York City and into southern Connecticut. Mesoscale temperature analysis shows this...
NY firefighters tackle blaze in freezing temperatures
LONG ISLAND (PIX11) — North Bellmore fire crews, assisted by mutual aid fire departments in neighboring towns, battled a house fire on Logue Street, which started around 6 pm, according to the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office. Fire officials tell PIX11 News three people have been displaced. No injuries have been...
Woman, 58, shoved onto Brooklyn subway tracks in unprovoked attack
BROOKLYN, NY – Police are searching for a suspect who pushed a 58-year-old woman onto the subway tracks at the Lafayette Avenue station Thursday night in what authorities are calling a random, unprovoked assault. The NYPD said the incident occurred around 10 p.m. on January 8, when the victim was…
Gambino mobster James LaForte pleads guilty in brutal extortion, racketeering case
BROOKLYN, NY – A longtime member of the Gambino organized crime family pleaded guilty in federal court to racketeering and violent extortion charges, capping off a sweeping prosecution that dismantled a major faction of one of New York’s most notorious Mafia families. James “Jimmy” LaForte, 49, of New York, admitted…
NYC civil service exam: Here are the salaries for positions open in February
The New York City civil service exam schedule is open for February, and some jobs pay more than others. The application period for exams opened Feb. 4. Exam applications currently open include: chemical engineering intern; chief marine engineer; child and family specialist; civil engineering intern; electrical...
