Silver Alert issued for missing man in Flatlands
FLATLANDS — A SILVER ALERT HAS BEEN ISSUED for Calvert Constantine, a 67-year-old black male from the vicinity of Troy Avenue and Avenue H in Brooklyn, according to a Notify NYC message issued Tuesday night, Jan. 6. He may be in need of medical attention. He was last seen at that intersection around 11 a.m. on...
D.A. Bragg Announces Guilty Plea For Fatal Car Crash In East Harlem
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. today announced the guilty plea of ANGEL MELENDEZ, 53, for fatally striking Nadjari Reid and injuring a pedestrian in 2024 after driving recklessly and running a red light in East Harlem. MELENDEZ pleaded guilty to one count of Manslaughter in the Second Degree, Assault...
NYC Sees Broad Crime Declines in 2025, But Rape And Youth Violence Remain High
The number of murders, retail theft, robberies and subway crime continued to decline in New York City in 2025, according to year-end data released by the New York City Police Department on Tuesday. Shooting incidents and the number of individuals harmed by gunfire reached record lows last year across the...
New York Leads U.S. Cities Consuming the Most Sports-Related Content
New Yorkers do a lot of scrolling when it comes to sports.
The Daily Dirt: City won’t stop insurance crisis
A spike in insurance premiums is a big reason operating costs have shot up. But why did that happen?. A prime suspect is bogus litigation, which some multifamily owners say insurers too often settle rather than fight. They point to trip-and-fall lawsuits in which insurers caved despite video evidence proving...
‘He didn’t deserve this’: Arrest made in unprovoked street killing of NYC father
An arrest has been made in the apparently unprovoked stabbing death of a Bronx father remembered by neighbors as a "hard-working man" who "did everything for his children." Sean Jones was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and is charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing...
NYC experiment: Some residents get $12,000 asset, no strings
New York is running one of the country’s most unusual anti-poverty experiments, quietly dropping a $12,000 digital asset into the wallets of a small group of residents with no work requirements or spending rules. Instead of traditional benefits, these New Yorkers are being handed a year’s worth of unconditional cash...
Man slashed in face, stabbed in back in Times Square, police say
A man was slashed in the face in Times Square early Wednesday, according to police, who said two of the three assailants got away. The 30-year-old man was slashed in the face and stabbed in the back by the violent trio near 40th Street and 7th Avenue around 1:50 a.m., according to police. NYC dad randomly stabbed...
This Upstate animal sanctuary provides a forever home to dogs that have been cast...
When Spirit Animal Sanctuary was first created, it was built on love—love for animals that had been overlooked, misunderstood, or written off entirely. But when founder Linda Papszycki suddenly lost her uncle, the man who started the sanctuary and chose its name, that love was tested in ways few people ever experience.
Fact Check: Mamdani isn’t responsible for raising NYC subway and bus fares to $3
The cost of riding a bus or subway in New York City rose from $2.90 to $3 in January 2026.
