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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
A 46-year-old man was charged Wednesday with fatally stabbing a rider on a New York City subway train last week after the two got into an argument during the morning rush. The man,identified by the police asLuis Jose-Duarte, was charged with manslaughter for his role in the death of the rider, John Sheldon, 38, according to the police. Mr. Jose-Duarte was arraigned Wednesday evening and pleaded not guilty.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
The killing occurred after the man got into a fight with his assailant on a downtown No. 5 train during the morning rush hour, officials said. A 38-year-old man was fatally stabbed early Friday by a second man with whom he had been fighting on a downtown No. 5 train as it pulled into a Manhattan station during rush hour, officials said.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon |Maia Coleman
After Andre Brown's 40-year sentence was overturned, he went free. The Bronx district attorney appealed, and now he is set to return to prison and leave his wife and children. After Andre Brown spent 23 years behind bars, found guilty of shooting and wounding two men on a Bronx street in 1999, his conviction was overturned on the grounds that he had a shoddy trial lawyer.
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3 weeks ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Maia Coleman |Corey Kilgannon
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Police officials on Wednesday named a woman and her 2-year-old child whose bodies were found near the desolate stretch of Long Island seafront that was the scene of the Gilgo Beach serial killings.The woman had long been known as Jane Doe No. 3 — or Peaches, after a fruit tattoo on her torso — and was thought to be the mother of the toddler whose body was also found along the South Shore beach.She was Tanya Denise Jackson and her daughter was Tatiana Marie Dykes, Detective Capt.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon |Maia Coleman
Police officials on Wednesday announced the identities of a woman and her 2-year-old child, whose bodies were found near the desolate stretch of Long Island seafront that was the scene of the Gilgo Beach serial killings. The woman had long been known as Jane Doe No. 3 - or "Peaches," after a fruit tattoo - and was thought to be the mother of a toddler whose body was also found along the South Shore's beachfront.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Michael Wilson |Andy Newman |Maia Coleman |Olivia Bensimon
The aircraft had flown tourists in New York City thousands of times before crashing Thursday with a Spanish family aboard. Passengers who had flown earlier that day are processing the shock. Lionel Carles and his wife and young son arrived from Nice, France, on Wednesday with a list of things to see and do in New York City: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Top of the Rock, Fifth Avenue. And, an exciting highlight - a helicopter tour of the skyline.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
On Thursday, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch insisted that the new division was not a dragnet or part of a "zero tolerance" policing philosophy, but rather a response to complaints from elected officials and New Yorkers that the city feels unsafe. Mayor Eric Adams said the initiative would take public safety "to the next level.""We will not tolerate an atmosphere where anything and everything goes," he said during Thursday's news conference.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
"Anyone who thinks this city is in chaos, they just don't know this city," Mayor Eric Adams said during a news conference at police headquarters on Thursday. "New York City remains the safest big city in America, bar none. The numbers prove that."Crime reached record lows before the pandemic and then spiked afterward. Now, it is receding again.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman |Wesley Parnell
Anderson fue arrestado a finales de ese mes. Había estado armando su lista de entrenamientos personales, saltando de un gimnasio a otro, cuando alguien lo reconoció. Su detención no sirvió para tranquilizar a Diaz. Durante semanas, el video del golpe apareció en todos los televisores, arrastrándola de vuelta a aquella noche. Algunos días llegó a ver a Anderson merodeando por el barrio, en libertad bajo fianza. Subía a un vagón de tren y él estaba ahí. Caminaba por la calle y ahí estaba.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman |Wesley Parnell
Gary Anderson hit Domingo Tapia for reasons never explained, sending Mr. Tapia into a coma and Mr. Anderson to prison. Mr. Tapia later died, and his attacker faces manslaughter charges. The attack on Domingo Tapia reverberates through two families almost a decade later. Credit... Kholood Eid for The New York Times Domingo Tapia and Gary Anderson crossed paths for no more than a second, two lives colliding in a moment of grainy surveillance footage.
