NYPD: 1 killed, another injured in shooting near Brownsville playground
Officers found a 42-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his stomach at the scene.
‘Trained Their Dogs to Attack Black Men’: New York Police Department Faces Accusations of...
It took two Suffolk County police officers to pull off a police dog that had jumped on the back of a dark-skinned bystander at a […] ‘Trained Their Dogs to Attack Black Men’: New York Police Department Faces Accusations of Racial Profiling After K-9 Makes a Beeline for Dark-Skinned Bystander in Viral Video
National Guard member charged with selling inmates drugs, phones
A New York National Guard member has been arrested on charges of selling contraband to state prison inmates at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County.
Only 8 Black Students Admitted To Top Manhattan Schools, Exposing Racial Gaps In Education
The eye-opening racial disparities in the admissions process to some of New York City’s most prestigious public schools has resulted in a call to a change to the admission process. Eight out of 781 students admitted to Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School being Black showcases the vast racial disparities students...
Along Staten Island street that became a river Thursday, businesses need help that hasn’t...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – By Friday morning the water was gone, and all that was left in the street was debris — but it’s only a matter of time before the rains come again to a section of Stapleton that has been slammed over and over by flooding.
These 5 Staten Island neighborhoods were hit by car thieves in a single week
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — There were five reported vehicle thefts during the week of July 21 through 27, according to NYPD data. Despite the recent incidents, the number of automobile thefts reported in the borough this year has continued to decline, police data shows. Car thefts reported through July 27 dropped 42% (116...
NYPD officer hospitalized after early morning NYC hit-and-run, suspect on the lam
An on-duty NYPD cop was hospitalized with minor injuries after she was struck by a hit-and-run driver on a Queens street early Saturday, authorities said – less than a week after another police officer was shot and killed when a maniac opened fire in a Midtown skyscraper. The incident occurred just after 5 a.m. when...
Young mom from Staten Island battling colon cancer now in desperate need of liver...
A young mother battling colon cancer — highlighting the need for insurance-covered colonoscopies for younger patients — is now in desperate need of a liver transplant after enduring an extensive chemotherapy program and aggressive colon surgery. Heather Candrilli, 36, who grew up on Staten Island, was diagnosed in...
Daughter of man terrorized by “Son of “Sam” visits him in prison
In 1977, Shayna Glassman's father lived in apartment 6E at 35 Pine Street in Yonkers, N.Y. His direct upstairs neighbor was a young postal worker named David Berkowitz.
Maniac was ‘hell-bent’ on getting to beloved NYC deli worker despite mom’s screams: witness
A maniac who stabbed a beloved Brooklyn deli worker appeared “hell-bent” after an earlier scuffle with the frightened father — despite his own mother’s screams for him to stop, witnesses said Saturday. The fight at the NY Deli & Mini Market Corp. at the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York broke...