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An armed 50-year-old man who pointed his weapon at an NYPD sergeant was shot by police in Brooklyn Friday night after cops patrolling the neighborhood heard a gunshot Friday night.
An employee of a Brooklyn homeless shelter was brutally stabbed outside the facility on Thursday night, say police. The ghastly incident unfolded at a Days Inn hotel that had been converted into a ...
That area of the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood had long been seen by residents and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) as one of the city's most dangerous. [3] All the NYPD's available officers were on duty that night, most already on overtime; [2] some had even returned from distant vacations.
Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now much safer. Violent crime in the city has dropped by three quarters in the twelve years ending in 2005 with the murder rate at its lowest then level since 1963 with 539 murders that year, for a murder rate of 6.58 per 100,000 people, compared to 2,245 murders in 1990. [202]
Sebastian Zapeta, 33, faces first- and second-degree murder and arson charges for allegedly setting the woman on fire on the F train in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on Sunday.
Friday night’s incident comes less than a week after a sleeping woman was set on fire and killed on the F train in Brooklyn, allegedly by a Guatemalan migrant who had been deported in 2018. Show ...
From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under 6, the age group most at risk of ingesting toxic paint. Half of the violations were in just 10 percent of the city’s zip codes, low-income neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and northern Manhattan, a ...
"We expect rain to move into midtown Manhattan sometime between 7 and 9 p.m. on New Year's Eve and continue until 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. that night," said Alex Duff, an AccuWeather meteorologist, in an ...