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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Colin Mixson |Nicholas Williams |Thomas Tracy
A 20-year-old man died after he accidentally shot himself in the stomach outside a Brooklyn NYCHA development — and someone ran off with his gun before first responders arrived, cops said Thursday. The victim was handling a pistol outside the Marlboro Houses on W. Eighth St. near Avenue X in Gravesend at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when he accidentally shot himself in the stomach, police say.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicholas Williams |Lincoln Anderson
A total of ten people — half of them firefighters — were injured, though not badly, in a fire in a residential apartment building in upper Manhattan Saturday morning, the FDNY said. More than 106 firefighters and EMS personnel, in a total of 25 vehicles, responded around 8:30 a.m. to the scene of the two-alarm blaze at 568 W. 149th St. in Hamilton Heights.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams
A 32-year-old man was savagely killed in a rain of bullets inside a Bronx building Tuesday afternoon, cops said. Police responded to a shooting around 2:43 p.m. inside a building near East. 178th St. and Julio Torres Pl. in the West Farms neighborhood, where they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the back, authorities said. EMS transported the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died, police said.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicholas Williams |Rocco Parascandola
Two men have been charged for shooting an off-duty NYPD cop in the leg during an attempted Queens carjacking. Denzel Brown, 29 and Marvin Dankwah, 26 were charged Monday with attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery for the April 27 incident in which the pair confronted a 25-year-old cop on 43rd Ave. and 21st St. in Long Island City at about 6:30 a.m. The officer was grazed in the leg and taken to an area hospital in stable condition, police sources said.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams
An elderly woman who was fatally struck in early April by an unlicensed SUV driver as she crossed a Brooklyn street was a Hasidic Jewish matriarch who fled Russia after World War II on an escape train to Poland, family and police said Wednesday. On April 8 around 8:25 p.m., Taibel Brod — whom family members said was 99 years old — was crossing with a walk signal at the intersection of Brooklyn Ave.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams
An argument between two straphangers turned violent Wednesday afternoon, with one woman stabbed on a Bronx-bound train, authorities said. Cops responded to the assault around 3:42 p.m. p.m. on a northbound D train pulling into the 170th Street station in Highbridge after a 33-year-old woman was stabbed in the left leg by a 28-year-old female passenger, cops said. “It was two women fighting on the train,” an MTA worker told the Daily News following the incident.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams
A heart-wrenching vigil for a beloved teacher who was fatally shot by her boyfriend brought together some 50 family members and coworkers at the young woman’s Bronx home Monday, where mourners shared tears and prayers. Loved ones of Jessica Hoyle, 31, held up balloons and huddled together on the rainy block of her home on Mickle Ave. near Boston Road in Parkchester, where Hoyle was shot in the head April 1. “I don’t know what to do now,” said Hoyle’s devastated mother, Lisa Marie Cabassa, 57.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Thomas Tracy |Nicholas Williams
A mother and her two young daughters were killed Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn when an Audi sedan crashed into a TLC vehicle and careened towards the family as they were crossing the street, officials said.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicholas Williams |Thomas Tracy |Elizabeth Keogh
A 27-year-old man stabbed to death by a group of teens outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center pleaded for his life, his devastated family says. Michael Arguy Hernandez was stabbed outside a Barclays Center concert by J-Hope that was part of the BTS member’s solo tour. Hernandez got into an argument with four teenage boys near Atlantic and Flatbush Aves. about 9 p.m. on Friday. The quarrel escalated into a fight, and Hernandez was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen, cops said. Advertisement“I’m angry.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
thederrick.com | Julian Roberts-Grmela |Nicholas Williams |Lincoln Anderson
NEW YORK — Nine people were arrested Saturday afternoon at a raucous protest against Elon Musk at his Tesla car showroom in downtown Manhattan. Around 300 protesters flooded the street around 1 p.m. outside the Tesla showroom at Washington and and W. 13 Sts. in the Meatpacking District.
