New York City went five days this week without a person shot, the longest the NYPD has not recorded a shooting victim in least 30 years, but the streak is over.
Electrical wiring caused a five-alarm fire at a Bronx apartment building earlier this month, according to New York City fire marshals.
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When a devastating fire ripped through the Twin Parks apartment complex in the Bronx three years ago,
The last ABG gang member was sentenced to 292 months in prison, signifying an end to gang terror in parts of the Bronx and justice for violent acts including murder.
After New York Mayor Eric Adams announced plans for a 2,000-bed migrant shelter in the Bronx, Rep. Ritchie Torres slammed the decision, accusing Adams of creating an immigrant “dumping ground."
A 15-year-old subway surfer was found with head injuries after falling from a train in the Bronx, police sources said.
The fire drove approximately 200 working class residents into the frigid street in the middle of the night from a building owned by a landlord once rated as the “worst” in the city.
Bronx leaders are asking New York City and the state to crack down on what they're calling "open-air drug markets."
The express commuter bus missed a turn on the route that travels between Manhattan and the Bronx. The driver, the sole occupant of the bus, was not injured.
The Hall Street shelter in Brooklyn, which drew numerous complaints, is among several that will soon close in New York.
The 2,200-bed facility off Bruckner Boulevard and 141st Street will house single men moved from shelters closing elsewhere.
The NYPD said a 32-year-old man holding a kitchen knife was shot inside the stairwell of a Bronx apartment building by officers responding to a 911 call for an attempted robbery.