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Subway surfing boy, 14, falls off NYC train
QUEENS - A 14-year-old boy was injured after he reportedly fell off a NYC train while subway surfing in Queens, the NYPD said. The incident happened on Friday around 10:30 a.m. on a northbound 7 train as it was entering the 103rd Street–Corona Plaza station in Corona. According to...
NYC woman charged with murdering boyfriend who told neighbor ‘she stabbed me’ with dying breath
A Harlem woman has been charged with murder over the weekend stabbing of her boyfriend — who identified her as his alleged attacker before dying, prosecutors said Tuesday. Michelle Hernandez, 44, is accused of killing her 47-year-old beau Alejandro Santos, who stumbled out of their West 147th Street apartment Sunday afternoon banging on neighbors’ doors while bleeding out of wounds to his chest and arm. “She stabbed me,” Santos reportedly told a neighbor who opened their door, before saying “I think I’m going to pass out” and collapsing, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan criminal court. Hernandez then emerged from the apartment and told neighbors Santos...
NYC subway performers say they’re under constant threat from violent mentally ill attackers as crime surges
Subway musicians say they have something to “fret” about. Buskers said Wednesday they are sometimes frightened to perform because there’s so much violent crime underground — even as they vied for plum performance spots at MTA-held auditions. “If you’re doing anything like this, you have to look over your shoulder all the time,” said Joshua Oxyer, 26, who had just crooned a Justin Timberlake song. “We’re targets all the time.” Alan Zavodsky, who plays drums for the New Orleans-inspired dance band New Thousand, said he’s had to dodge unhinged people. “There are so many things happening from certain people who aren’t mentally well who...
NYC mugging victim who suffered heart attack in heist dies 3 months later, case now homicide
A Bronx knifepoint robbery victim who suffered a heart attack during the harrowing heist in February has now died — with the case now upgraded to a homicide, according to police. Edgar Acevedo, 47, went into cardiac arrest after he and his 39-year-old pal were confronted by a pair of crooks at East Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse shortly before 2 a.m. on Feb. 18. Police said the thieves — who remain on the loose — stole the pair’s wallets with about $110. Mike Schmidt destroyed Portland with freed criminals, drug use and empty stores Acevedo suffered a heart attack during...
Video shows man brutally kicking and beating Orthodox Jewish kids playing on NYC sidewalk
A Citi Bike-riding brute viciously beat two Orthodox Jewish boys, ages 11 and 13, playing on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday night in a disturbing, caught-on-video ordeal, cops and sources said. Now the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating whether the attack — which saw the man kicking and stomping on one of the youngsters — was an antisemitic assault, law enforcement sources told The Post. Several kids were playing in front of a condo building on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 9 p.m. Sunday when a stranger stopped his bike mid-block, between two parked cars, and stormed...
NYPD to fight rising retail theft with surveillance video monitoring
NEW YORK -- There has been an increase in retail thefts across New York City so far this year. Already, the NYPD has reported a 5% bump compared to this time in 2023.As a result, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced the expansion of a pilot program to help fight that kind of crime, saying it involves tapping into businesses' security cameras.According to the latest police stats, more than 21,000 retail theft incidents have been reported in 2024. The NYPD and Adams explained how the new technology works."We refuse to surrender to any form of criminality. We are not going...
Perv in pajama pants exposes self, swings hammer at woman on Midtown subway train
A hammer-swinging skateboarder in pajama pants exposed himself to a woman and performed a lewd act on a subway train in Midtown Manhattan this week, police said Wednesday as they searched for him.
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