Man jumps from fourth floor to escape NYC apartment fire
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man was seriously injured in a desperate leap from his fourth-floor apartment after his kitchen caught fire on Tuesday, firefighters said. The 42-year-old victim became trapped inside his top-floor apartment on Keap St. near Marcy Ave. in Williamsburg after the blaze erupted in his kitchen...
Girl, 14, Falls to Death from N.Y.C. Elite Private School
The teenager fell to her death from an elevated point of the Chapin School in Manhattan
12-year-old NYC boy stabbed inside Brooklyn park in afternoon burst of violence
A 12-year-old boy was stabbed inside a Brooklyn park in a mid-afternoon burst of violence Thursday, police said. The pre-teen was knifed in the chest inside Betsy Head Park atThomas S. Boyland Street and Dumont Ave. in Brownsville minutes before 3 p.m., cops said. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical...
Harlem Jews asked to add a menorah to a park’s Christmas display. They got...
Amid the bitter cold on Tuesday evening, 100 or so neighbors — many of them clutching tiny cups of hot chocolate, holding dogs on leashes, or chasing after small children — gathered in Harlem’s tiny Montefiore Park to watch the neighborhood’s annual Christmas tree lighting. But...
Florida Man Arraigned In ’97 Killing Of NY Army Vet, Toddler
Andrew Dykes, 66, pleaded not guilty to murder in the deaths of Tanya Denise Jackson and her 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes. He is the child’s father. Dykes was arrested earlier this month in Florida, as Daily Voice reported. He is due back in court in mid-January. Jackson’s remains...
Man arrested for injuring 2 officers during traffic stop in Manhasset
Diosmede Rodriguez Flores, 24, was a passenger in a 2007 Ford Expedition and became combative after officers found a white substance believed to be cocaine in the car and tried to arrest him.
Luis Caisaguano Dead After Struck By Vehicle: Prosecutor
At 9:15 p.m., Jersey City police responded to a report of a pedestrian struck at Mallory Avenue and Communipaw Avenue and found Luis Caisaguano with life-threatening injuries, Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello said. The man was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on Wednesday,...
17-Year-Old Charged In Deadly Jersey City Shooting Of PA Teen: Prosecutor
At 5:10 p.m., officers responded to an apartment of Rose Avenue and found Al-Jahmir Curry, a 16-year-old Beaver Falls, Pa. resident with a gunshot wound to the upper body, Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello said. Curry was pronounced dead at the scene and his death was determined to be...
NYPD adds 1,143 new recruits; Now staffs more than 34,700 officers as crime levels...
The New York City Police Department hired 4,056 officers this year, marking the largest number of recruits brought on in a single year in recorded history, Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced. The department swore in 1,143 new recruits Wednesday, bringing the total NYPD headcount to more than 34,700...
Duo wanted for targeting women in Brooklyn robberies
Police on Thursday released surveillance footage of two men wanted in connection with a string of robberies targeting women in East New York between late November and early December.
