Father and son did not hesitate to leave their pizzeria in Queens to help an older Asian woman who they saw being brutally beaten by two men on the street. Both were attacked, but they affirm that they would not hesitate to protect a defenseless person again. Louis Suljovic, 38, recounted from his hospital bed … Read more
Defense attorneys for the 57-year-old Manhattan man arrested in connection with the hammer attack on a New York City Health Department employee say prosecutors are charging the wrong man. The defense attorney found his client William Blount not guilty Friday in Queens County Criminal Court. “He is not the person who did this,” the defense … Read more
The last statistics The New York Department of Labor put the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the Big Apple at 7.6%, the worst of any New York metro area and nearly double the national average of 4%. In Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, the comparable January rate was 7% and in Chicago, the third-largest, … Read more
Crime in New York City continues to rise despite the efforts of the Mayor’s Office and the NYPD. According to NYPD statistics, serious crimes in the city increased by 58.7%, from 5,759 reported crimes in February 2021 to 9,138 reported crimes last February. All crime categories saw an increase last month, with the exception of … Read more
The brutal murder of Christina Yuna Lee, a Korean-American woman who was stalked and killed in her Chinatown apartment, not only sent shockwaves through New York City, it also stoked fear among New Yorkers who commute alone. That of Lee, a 35-year-old digital marketing producer, is just one of several cases of violence against women … Read more
NEW YORK – A man died after being stabbed inside a New York City subway station early Monday, police said. The New York Police Department says the unidentified victim and the suspect in the attack got into a fight on the mezzanine floor of the 241st Street station in the Bronx around 12:45 a.m. The … Read more
NEW YORK – A 37-year-old Queens man was arrested on murder, manslaughter and other charges following the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old woman who was found dead in her home by NYPD officers responding to a call. about an ongoing robbery, according to authorities. Mindy Singer, who lived less than two miles from Peter Ikonomou, … Read more
The Hate Crimes Task Force was created in 2018 to address the rise in bias-motivated threats, harassment, and violence across New York State. Hate crimes are crimes that are motivated in whole or in substantial part by the identification of a person, a group or a place with a race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, … Read more
NEW YORK – A New York City man allegedly stole at least five cars Sunday, all of them taxis, and police say he has been doing the same for nearly 40 years. A police body camera released by the New York Police Department showed an officer running after 62-year-old Robert Williams on Sunday after witnesses … Read more
NEW YORK – New York City police made a gruesome discovery over the weekend after a woman reported worms falling from the ceiling of her apartment. Officers were called to the building on Creston Avenue in the Fordham section of the Bronx on Saturday. That’s where they found two badly decomposed bodies of a 40-year-old … Read more