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The New York City Council will hold a hearing this Monday on the subway surfing, or surfing in the subway, which is still a problem throughout the city. Members say they want to better understand why this practice is happening and how agencies are dealing with the problem. A 13-year-old girl was the latest fatality … Read more
In the middle of the darkness, large flames could be seen among the firefighters who arrived on Friday night to control a forest fire, in the section of the park known as the Nethermead esplanade, in Prospect Park. The Commissioner of the Fire Department, Robert Tucker, ensured that the incident was controlled after several units … Read more
Investigators from the city’s Department of Buildings issue an evacuation order for the residential building in Harlem that was affected by a fire this past Friday. As indicated in a statement, the Red Cross has offered emergency evacuation services to all the residents of the building, which is estimated at more than one hundred. The … Read more
City authorities raided and shut down an illegal massage parlor on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens. The Department of Buildings joined with the Fire Department and the Police Department to close the business that operated on the first floor of a building at 72-30 Roosevelt Avenue. The building was divided into movable cubicles constructed of flammable … Read more
Authorities are looking for the driver who hit and ran over a pedestrian in Brooklyn. The incident happened Friday around 9:30 a.m. in Bushwick, near Wyckoff Avenue and DeKalb Avenue. Police say a truck was heading east on Dekalb when it hit a man. When they arrived, the authorities found a man with serious injuries … Read more
Governor Brad Lander and the city’s Federation of Taxi Workers are calling out Uber and Lyft for banning driver apps to circumvent payment regulations. “The decision made by these two companies, Uber and Lyft, against the drivers just because we tried to ask for a pay increase from me does not seem fair. Uber and … Read more
New surveillance video shows the moment a driver ran a red light and fatally struck a man in Brooklyn. From NY1 News, the video stopped just before the impact. The incident happened shortly after 3am on Thursday. Félix Méndez, 49, was hit while crossing Bedford Avenue at the intersection with Lafayette Avenue. The truck driver … Read more
A man has been shot to death in front of a Christian church in Brooklyn this morning. Police responded to the incident that occurred shortly before 4 a.m. in front of 2163 Tilden Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood. When they arrived, officers found a man identified as Jose Galloway, 27, with multiple gunshot wounds to … Read more
Little by little, service was restored to most of the affected residents. However, those we were able to talk to said that the fear they caused them was terrible. “When we finally managed to get into the flat, there was a terrible smell of gas. My head hurts, my husband’s head hurts. The girl woke … Read more
Authorities are investigating the death of an employee in the Queen’s City Sanitation Department that occurred while he was on duty. According to sources, the man had been run over by the garbage collection truck he was working in. Police said it happened shortly before six on Saturday afternoon on Douglaston Parkway. Richard Errico was … Read more