One of four New York City jails under construction to replace Rikers Island will have additional beds to accommodate the city’s growing inmate population, jail officials said. But to increase capacity, the size of a unit specializing in helping people with mental illness and addiction problems will have to be reduced. These units are more … Read more
NEW YORK — Authorities are searching for a woman and a man suspected of attacking and threatening a mother and her 9-month-old baby with a knife inside a Brooklyn police station. The incident occurred on Wednesday, July 5, at around 10:30 a.m., when the victim, a 37-year-old mother, was walking down the stairs of the … Read more
What to Know The gunman who was riding a scooter while opening fire in several New York City neighborhoods earlier this month, apparently at random, killing one man and wounding three others, was indicted Wednesday on 14 counts between them one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder, according to the Brooklyn District … Read more
NEW YORK — A Hispanic man died after being stabbed after an alleged argument Tuesday night in Brooklyn, while a woman and another man were also injured, New York City Police said. The fatal victim, identified as Severiano Reyes, 36, apparently belonged to Puerto Rican relatives, shared neighbors. The bloody attack occurred in the heart … Read more
NEW YORK — Three people were injured in a sudden stabbing and slashing incident that erupted Tuesday in Brooklyn. The injuries occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m., when police received a call of a person being stabbed. The stabbing took place near 340 Roebling Street in the Williamsburg section of the county. The victim, identified as … Read more
Is this a normal pregnancy or not? This is one of the questions to which, according to the president of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, they will be able to answer with the advanced technology of the new ultrasounds. “We are expanding our early pregnancy testing center,” … Read more
NEW YORK — A teenager was shot in broad daylight in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn borough on Monday. The shooting occurred near the intersection of 62nd Street and 20th Avenue around 1 pm Police responded to the scene and administered CPR to the 15-year-old, who was found with gunshot wounds to his back. The … Read more
Two new relief and humanitarian response centers have been opened by the city this week, they are in Queens and Brooklyn. In the first county, the Mayor’s Office aims to serve more than 330 families with children from a former hotel. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, they hope to serve about 1,400 men alone in another building. … Read more
NEW YORK – A 4-year-old boy has died after suffering an excruciating fall from the window of a Brooklyn apartment building, police said. The fatal fall occurred around 3 p.m. in East Flatbush on New York Avenue near Farragut Road, according to police officials. It was not clear how the boy fell, but police said … Read more
Residents of neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens were the target of a shooter who fired indiscriminately on the streets while riding a scooter. On his journey, he fired at five different places, killing an elderly man and leaving three other people injured, one of them seriously. On Jamaica Avenue, between 108th and 109th streets, there … Read more