Waste of Time: Full-Salaried NYPD Cops Now Needed to Enforce the Unprotected Bedford Avenue...
Officers from the 79th Precinct were busy trying to save cyclists and bust illegal parkers on the newly unprotected stretch of Bedford Avenue, but had to stop issuing summonses because they ran out of them. One day after Streetsblog alerted city officials to the danger presented by illegal parkers filling...
A New York City hospital needs help identifying woman hospitalized over 100 days
A New York City hospital is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a female patient who has remained hospitalized for more than three months. The patient is believed to be in her 40s or 50s. She was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital’s Morningside location on April 12.
NYC duo takes over dying widow’s house while she is on hospice, but snail...
A scheming duo took over a dying elderly woman’s Queens home while she was on hospice care — but her family uncovered the fraud with a congratulatory piece of mail, officials said Thursday. Deepa Roy, 68, and Victor Quimis, 39, forged Renuka Bherwani’s signature to “steal” the Kew Gardens Hills house she had lived in...
Javier Vazquez Arrested For Armed Robbery In Edgewater
Vazquez was charged with three other suspects in the June 2024 robbery armed robbery in Edgewater, but attempts to locate him had been unsuccessful, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Vazquez surrendered to detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in Paramus, Musella said....
Michael Lucchesi Sentenced For $1.4M NYC Hospital Theft
Michael Lucchesi, 67, the former Chairman of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, was sentenced Wednesday, Aug. 6, to an indeterminate term of one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree grand larceny. Lucchesi admitted to using a business credit card for personal expenses,...
Woman slashed, robbed on NYC subway: NYPD
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – A 29-year-old woman was slashed on a No. 3 train when she refused to give the masked suspect her bag, according to the NYPD. The attack happened just after 11 p.m. Wednesday as a northbound train was pulling into Wall Street station, police said. Authorities said the suspect tried to take […]
Maniac stabs stranger in NYC subway station — and attacker is still on the...
A stranger stabbed a 25-year-old woman in an unprovoked Tuesday evening rush hour attack on the staircase of a Manhattan subway station , cops and sources said. The victim was walking down the stairs inside the 23rd Street C and E train station in Chelsea around 6:30 p.m. when the maniac plunged what appeared to be a...
Driver kills Bronx pedestrian, flees the scene, NYPD says
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today. Police said they're looking for the driver of a vehicle who struck and killed a woman as she crossed a Bronx street late Wednesday night and then fled the scene. NYPD officials said the 44-year-old victim was crossing...
3 additional victims of 9/11 terror attacks identified almost 24 years later
The medical examiner's office has never stopped testing remains recovered from the wreckage.
Woman accused of speeding over 100 mph in fatal crash near Manhattan Bridge: DA
Editor’s note: The above video aired in a previous newscast. CHINATOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — A woman in a stolen rental car was driving over 100 mph when she allegedly hit and killed a bicyclist and a woman sitting on a bench near the Manhattan Bridge last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Autumn Romero, 23, and...
