Brittany Kriegstein
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)
Breaking news & crime reporter @WNYC/Gothamist. Former: @NYT @NYDailyNews. CJS ‘19. Bodega Bathrooms expert. ✉️[email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Charles Lane |Brittany Kriegstein
The daughter of a woman who was brutally beaten on Randall's Island said her mother had to be resuscitated on Wednesday during surgery and is undergoing another dangerous surgery on Thursday. The woman, identified by her family as 44-year-old Diana Agudela, was riding an e-bike on her usual route back to Astoria from her job at a Manhattan museum on Friday night when she was attacked around 11:30 p.m. Police said a man walking his dog discovered her six hours later.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Brittany Kriegstein
Two teenagers were arrested this week for separate shootings that killed one person and left another in critical condition, according to police – the latest in a string of violent shooting incidents allegedly perpetuated by teens. A 15-year-old boy was arrested on Monday for the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Darren Davis in the Bronx earlier this month.
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gothamist.com | Brittany Kriegstein
Construction will resume on an offshore wind farm near Long Island that could power a half-million homes, after the Trump administration reversed its decision to halt the project, according to New York elected officials and the energy company developing the wind farm. Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had worked with President Donald Trump to “save” Empire Wind 1, as the project is known. Officials say it would create 1,500 union jobs in addition to clean energy for 500,000 homes.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Brittany Kriegstein
Police on Monday arrested a 13-year-old boy who they say passed a gun to another teen, who then shot 16-year-old bystander Evette Jeffrey near a Bronx school last week, according to NYPD officials. Officials said the teens were part of a group that got into a physical fight around 5 p.m. last Monday outside the Bronx Latin school near Home Street and Tinton Avenue in Morrisania.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Brittany Kriegstein
Three people were killed over the weekend in separate shootings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, including one right behind an NYPD precinct stationhouse in Harlem, police said. NYPD officials announced no immediate arrests in any of the incidents. Police said gunfire erupted around 11:45 p.m. Sunday behind the 28th Precinct stationhouse on Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 123rd Street in Harlem and struck a man on the sidewalk in his head.
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Our new gun violence map shows how shootings have decreased in East Harlem. Photo 1 is the neighborhood from 2020-2022, when it included one of the city’s most concentrated hot spots (in red). Photo 2 is from 2023-2025. Huge thanks to Joe Hong for this data viz. https://t.co/Ath970prjB