Elizabeth Shwe

4 days ago | gothamist.com | Elizabeth Shwe

United Bodegas of America is renewing its calls for panic buttons and NYPD monitoring in all bodegas after two fatal incidents last week. Anthony Diaz, 24, was fatally stabbed and two other men were hospitalized after an incident at a bodega in Inwood, Manhattan on Wednesday evening, according to police officials. Police say another man, 38-year-old Preston White, was shot and killed inside a bodega in the Bronx’s Williamsbridge neighborhood around an hour later.

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Elizabeth Shwe

Councilmember Susan Zhuang says she’s looking forward to working with the NYPD after a judge dismissed charges that she assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest last summer. Zhuang, who represents the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Gravesend and Sunset Park, was protesting a proposed nearby homeless shelter when she bit an officer’s forearm and was charged with resisting arrest and assault.

1 month ago | gothamist.com | Elizabeth Shwe

There’s no need to weather the Red Storm alone. The St. John’s University men’s basketball team is fresh off its first NCAA tournament game win in a quarter-century, and up against Arkansas for the second round on Saturday at 2:40 p.m. in Providence, Rhode Island. On Thursday, St. John’s won against the Omaha Mavericks. While we hear the nation’s smallest state is lovely, you don’t have to make the three-hour trip to Providence to find some company for the game.

1 month ago | gothamist.com | Elizabeth Shwe

The city is further cracking down on overweight trucks crossing a dangerously dilapidated section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway starting on Monday. The move comes after the city’s Department of Transportation reported the number of overweight vehicles dropped 60% after officials began enforcing the 80,000 pound weight limit over a year ago on the Queens-bound lanes of the BQE's triple cantilever, the three-tiered section of the highway in Brooklyn Heights.

Dec 25, 2024 | gothamist.com | Elizabeth Shwe |Stephanie Clary

Police say several people were injured after a taxi hit pedestrians on a sidewalk near Herald Square around 4 p.m. on Christmas day. A 9-year-old boy, a 41-year-old woman and a 49-year-old woman were sent to local hospitals and are in stable condition, police say. A 58-year-old man was driving a taxi on 6th Avenue when he drove onto the sidewalk, according to the NYPD. NBC New York and CBS News New York report that it’s unclear what led up to the incident, but no charges have been filed.