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.
Jeanette Meyran — whose husband Lt. Curtis Meyran was one of three firefighters killed in two blazes on Jan. 23, 2005 — fought back tears at an FDNY ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe. “It’s hard to be here,” she said of the Bronx firehouse where the event was held.
Merchants and residents in a South Bronx neighborhood are crying foul over plans to open a massive new migrant men’s shelter next month, calling the move dangerous.
With the support of the Angellyh Yambo Foundation and Geographic Information System (GIS) expert Frank Romo, Bronx students are creating maps to better
Fire-sale-style transactions have also led to Related shedding Nos. 315, 319, 323 and 329 Lincoln Place in Prospect Heights; 196 Sackett St. in Carroll Gardens; and a collection of sites on Colgate, Wheeler and Watson avenues in Soundview in the Bronx, the analysis found.
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.
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called on the city to stop treating his home borough like “a dumping ground” for shelters, as the Adams administration prepares to move thousands of migrant men to the neighborhood.
The Hall Street shelter in Brooklyn, which drew numerous complaints, is among several that will soon close in New York.
An arctic air mass settled over New York City and much of the country Sunday evening, bringing a deep freeze and the chance of more snow than the city has seen in three years.
The city will close 13 emergency migrant shelters by June and open one additional facility in the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. Shelters in all five boroughs, including the massive and controversial Hall Street facility in Brooklyn,
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.
While it’s long been expected, the contract presented for Manhattan’s borough-based jail made it official – none of the new jails will be completed before Rikers is required to close.