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Three injured in separate shootings across NYC

A 38-year-old man was shot in the arm in Manhattan early Saturday morning, one of three people nailed by gunfire overnight, the NYPD said.

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Three injured in separate shootings across NYC​

By
Melissa Klein


March 12, 2022 5:48pm
Updated

NYPD officers investigate the scene of a shooting on 54 King St. in Hudson Square. Seth Gottfried


A 38-year-old man was shot in the arm in Lower Manhattan early Saturday morning, one of three people to be hit by gunfire overnight, according to the NYPD.
The victim was standing in front of 54 King St. in Hudson Square at 5 a.m. when he was hit by an unknown man who ran from the scene. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a non life-threatening injury, police said.
At 11:41 p.m. Friday, a 31-year-old man said he was at a party at 749 East 213 St. in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx, when a fight started and he felt pain in his leg and realized he was shot, police said.
He was taken to Montefiore Medical Center and did not provide a description of the shooter, police said.
A 38-year-old man was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Lower Manhattan after being shot.Seth Gottfried The 38-year-old victim was standing around 54 King St. in Hudson Square when he was shot.Seth Gottfried
At 9 p.m. Friday, a man was hit in the leg as he stood in the lobby of an apartment building at 2303 Avenue D in Flatbush. The shooter fled in a black Honda sedan, police said.
The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to survive, police said.

 

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More than 1 ton of fentanyl seized in NYC in 2021 — soaring 206 percent in one year

Law enforcement seized 2,420 pounds of synthetic opioids across New York last year, with 95 percent of that haul in the Big Apple alone.

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More than 1 ton of fentanyl seized in NYC in 2021 — soaring 206 percent in one year​

By
Kerry J. Byrne


March 12, 2022 4:48pm
Updated

Authorities collected approximately 2,420 pounds of opioids in NY in 2021, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto

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The flow of fentanyl into New York City soared to record highs in 2021.
Law enforcement seized 2,420 pounds of the synthetic opioid across the state last year, with 95 percent of that haul, 2,300 pounds, in the Big Apple alone, according to disturbing new Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the Post.
The annual total represents a staggering 206 percent increase over the previous record 790 pounds of fentanyl seized in 2020.
“Throughout my 30 years in law enforcement I have never seen anything with greater killing power,” warned DEA New York Division acting special agent in charge Tim Foley.
Overdose deaths in NYC peaked at 596 in the first quarter of 2021, the latest period for which the city has data, steadily rising each quarter since 2018. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — a 29 percent spike in just one year.
Fentanyl increasingly arrives in New York City in ready-to-ingest pill form, designed to look like legitimate OxyContin, Vicodin or Adderall, among other prescription drugs.
The DEA of New York seized 82,087 fentanyl pills in 2021, up more than fourfold over the 19,378 pills found in 2020.
Authorities seized 2,300 pounds worth of fentanyl in NYC in 2021.Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York
China is coming under increasing scrutiny for its role in fueling the crisis.
“Criminal drug networks in Mexico are mass-producing deadly fentanyl and fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills, using chemicals sourced largely from China,” the DEA claims in its new “One Pill Can Kill” campaign.
A multi-agency federal report released last month by the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking calls fentanyl “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”
It demands action to stop the flow of “precursor chemicals” from China used to manufacture the synthetic drug in Mexico.
The DEA claims fentanyl is being trafficked by “criminal drug networks” through the US-Mexico border.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
“The expansion of [China’s] chemical and pharmaceutical sectors has outpaced the government’s efforts to regulate them, creating opportunities for unscrupulous vendors to export chemicals needed in [fentanyl’s] illegal manufacture,” the report states.
It blames the fentanyl crisis on America’s addiction to painkillers caused by the Food and Drug Administration’s ill-fated decision to approve OxyContin in 1995, which was “falsely marketed as an easy, nonaddictive fix for pain.”
Drug overdoses in America have “steadily climbed” since that decision, the report states.

 

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At least 4, including 14-year-old boy, injured in overnight NYC shootings

At least four people – including a 14-year-old boy, who was blasted in the right leg – were hurt in shootings across the Big Apple late Sunday, cops said.

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At least 4, including 14-year-old boy, injured in overnight NYC shootings​

By
Tina Moore and

Amanda Woods


March 14, 2022 11:44am
Updated

125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue William C. Lopez

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At least four people, including a 14-year-old boy, were hurt in shootings across the Big Apple late Sunday, cops said.
The teen was blasted in the right leg on the grounds of Harlem’s General Ulysses S. Grant Houses on West 125th Street near Convent Avenue around 9:15 p.m., authorities said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, and also arrested for possession of an imitation pistol, police said.
The exact circumstances around the shooting were unclear.
About an hour later, a 36-year-old man was shot in the neck, stomach and right leg inside a building on Wortman Avenue near Schenck Avenue in East New York, part of NYCHA’s Linden Houses.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in stable condition, cops said.
The victim has a long rap sheet and is affiliated with a gang, police sources said. The circumstances around the shooting were also unknown.
A 36-year-old man was shot in the neck, stomach and right leg in Brooklyn.Wayne Carrington
Around the same time, a 37-year-old man was shot in the right leg as he sat in a car on Pratt Avenue near Garrett Place in the Eastchester section of the Bronx, cops said.
The victim, who reported hearing shots and feeling pain, was taken to Montefiore Medical Center in stable condition.
In an unrelated shooting, also in the Eastchester neighborhood, another 37-year-old man was shot once in the left shoulder by a man who tried to rob him at Edson Avenue and Boston Road around 9:10 p.m., cops said.
The victim has a long rap sheet and is affiliated with a gang.Wayne Carrington
The victim had just left his job at a car dealership a few blocks away when the gunman, wearing a ski mask, approached, displayed a gun and demanded his property, cops and police sources said.
The victim resisted, sparking a “physical altercation,” cops said.
That’s when the suspect opened fire and then fled empty-handed, police said.
The victim went into the 125th Street subway station after being shot.William C. Lopez
The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
Both Bronx shootings took place in the confines of the 47th Precinct, and the Brooklyn shooting location is covered by the 75th Precinct — both areas that are targeted by the first wave of the NYPD’s new anti-gun units hitting the streets Monday.
The scene where the 14-year-old was shot was in the confines of the 26th Precinct — which is not covered by the first round of new patrols.

 

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At least 4, including 14-year-old boy, injured in overnight NYC shootings

At least four people – including a 14-year-old boy, who was blasted in the right leg – were hurt in shootings across the Big Apple late Sunday, cops said.

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At least 4, including 14-year-old boy, injured in overnight NYC shootings​

By
Tina Moore and

Amanda Woods


March 14, 2022 11:44am
Updated

125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue William C. Lopez

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At least four people, including a 14-year-old boy, were hurt in shootings across the Big Apple late Sunday, cops said.
The teen was blasted in the right leg on the grounds of Harlem’s General Ulysses S. Grant Houses on West 125th Street near Convent Avenue around 9:15 p.m., authorities said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, and also arrested for possession of an imitation pistol, police said.
The exact circumstances around the shooting were unclear.
About an hour later, a 36-year-old man was shot in the neck, stomach and right leg inside a building on Wortman Avenue near Schenck Avenue in East New York, part of NYCHA’s Linden Houses.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in stable condition, cops said.
The victim has a long rap sheet and is affiliated with a gang, police sources said. The circumstances around the shooting were also unknown.
A 36-year-old man was shot in the neck, stomach and right leg in Brooklyn.Wayne Carrington
Around the same time, a 37-year-old man was shot in the right leg as he sat in a car on Pratt Avenue near Garrett Place in the Eastchester section of the Bronx, cops said.
The victim, who reported hearing shots and feeling pain, was taken to Montefiore Medical Center in stable condition.
In an unrelated shooting, also in the Eastchester neighborhood, another 37-year-old man was shot once in the left shoulder by a man who tried to rob him at Edson Avenue and Boston Road around 9:10 p.m., cops said.
The victim has a long rap sheet and is affiliated with a gang.Wayne Carrington
The victim had just left his job at a car dealership a few blocks away when the gunman, wearing a ski mask, approached, displayed a gun and demanded his property, cops and police sources said.
The victim resisted, sparking a “physical altercation,” cops said.
That’s when the suspect opened fire and then fled empty-handed, police said.
The victim went into the 125th Street subway station after being shot.William C. Lopez
The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
Both Bronx shootings took place in the confines of the 47th Precinct, and the Brooklyn shooting location is covered by the 75th Precinct — both areas that are targeted by the first wave of the NYPD’s new anti-gun units hitting the streets Monday.
The scene where the 14-year-old was shot was in the confines of the 26th Precinct — which is not covered by the first round of new patrols.

 

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Two men injured in latest attacks on NYC subway trains, cops say

Two men were attacked on subway trains in the Big Apple Tuesday morning – one struck with a glass bottle and the other slashed on the hand and arm, cops said.

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Two men injured in latest attacks on NYC subway trains, cops say​

By
Tina Moore and

Amanda Woods


March 15, 2022 3:09pm
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Suspect arrested after man slashed at Chambers Street WTC station




Two men were attacked on subway trains in the Big Apple on Tuesday morning — one struck with a glass bottle and the other slashed on the hand and arm, cops said.
A 25-year-old man was riding an A train at 104th Street and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park at 7 a.m. when a man who appeared to be in his 30s walloped him over the head with the bottle, police said.
The victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with a cut on his head.
The attacks are the latest in a spate of crime underground. Robert Miller [IMG alt="Slashing took place on uptown E subway platform at southern end of the World Trade Center Station. Perp fled station and was arrested at corner of Murray & Church St. He was positive ID by a witness. Victim was removed earlier and taken to Bellevue Hospital. Clothing removed.
"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/world-trade-center-subway-slashing-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024[/IMG]Clothing was removed from the subway platform.Robert Miller [IMG alt="Slashing took place on uptown E subway platform at southern end of the World Trade Center Station. Perp fled station and was arrested at corner of Murray & Church St. He was positive ID by a witness. Victim was removed earlier and taken to Bellevue Hospital.
"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/world-trade-center-subway-slashing-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024[/IMG]A 25-year-old man was riding an A train when a man who appeared to be in his 30s walloped him over the head with the bottle.Robert Miller [IMG alt="Slashing took place on uptown E subway platform at southern end of the World Trade Center Station. Perp fled station and was arrested at corner of Murray & Church St. He was positive ID by a witness. Victim was removed earlier and taken to Bellevue Hospital.
"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/world-trade-center-subway-slashing-08.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024[/IMG]A slashing took place on uptown E subway platform.Robert Miller
The attacker, who wore dark clothing, fled.
The circumstances leading up to the attack were unclear.
Later in the morning, a 36-year-old man was slashed on the left hand and underarm after a dispute with a 29-year-old woman on a northbound E train at the World Trade Center station around 9:40 a.m., cops said.
[IMG alt="Slashing took place on uptown E subway platform at southern end of the World Trade Center Station. Perp fled station and was arrested at corner of Murray & Church St. He was positive ID by a witness. Victim was removed earlier and taken to Bellevue Hospital.
"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/world-trade-center-subway-slashing-12.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024[/IMG]One man was struck with a glass bottle and the other was slashed on the hand and arm.Robert Miller Two men were attacked on subway trains.Robert Miller [IMG alt="Slashing took place on uptown E subway platform at southern end of the World Trade Center Station. Perp fled station and was arrested at corner of Murray & Church St. He was positive ID by a witness. Victim was removed earlier and taken to Bellevue Hospital.
"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/world-trade-center-subway-slashing-11.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024[/IMG]The perp was arrested at the corner of Murray and Church streets.Robert Miller [IMG alt="Slashing took place on uptown E subway platform at southern end of the World Trade Center Station. Perp fled station and was arrested at corner of Murray & Church St. He was positive ID by a witness. Victim was removed earlier and taken to Bellevue Hospital.
"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/world-trade-center-subway-slashing-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024[/IMG]The circumstances leading up to the attack were unclear. Robert Miller
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, police said.
The woman was taken into custody, with charges pending, cops said.
The attacks are the latest in a spate of crime underground.

 

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Two men killed in separate NYC stabbings

Guersy Jacques and Kashawn Thompson were found fatally stabbed in separate attacks in New York City.

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Two men killed in separate NYC stabbings​

By
Larry Celona and

Kenneth Garger


March 17, 2022 12:19am
Updated

Police said Guersy Jacques and Kashawn Thompson were found fatally stabbed in separate attacks in New York City on March 16, 2022. Peter Gerber

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Two men were found fatally stabbed in separate attacks in New York City on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
In the first incident, Guersy Jacques, 24, was knifed in the neck inside of an apartment building on Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens just after noon, cops said.
Jacques was unconscious by the time first responders arrived. He was taken by EMS to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said a person of interest was taken into custody. No charges were immediately announced.
About an hour later in the Bronx, Kashawn Thompson, 48, was found dead with a stab wound to his chest inside of an apartment on Mapes Avenue, according to cops.
Police were conducting a wellness check when they made the discovery.
It was unclear when Thompson was attacked. No arrests were made in his killing.
Guersy Jacques was knifed in the neck inside an apartment in Brooklyn around noon on March 16, 2022.Peter Gerber

 

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Eight people shot overnight in New York City

Eight people were hurt in shootings across New York City overnight.

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Eight people shot overnight in New York City​

By
David Meyer


March 19, 2022 2:40pm
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Eight people shot overnight in New York City





Eight people were hurt in shootings across New York City overnight, including two city Corrections officers struck when someone opened fire on a Queens nightclub, police said.
A man who had been booted from the Showtime Bar and Lounge on 101st Avenue in Richmond Hill around 1:30 a.m. allegedly shot into the club after he’d been ejected, an NYPD spokesman said.
His two victims — a 31-year-old man and 29-year-old woman — were not known to the suspect and not his intended target, cops said.
Eight people were injured in shootings across New York City last night. James Keivom for NY Post
The man was struck in the left hand and underwent surgery, while the woman was hit in the left foot, according to cops and the Corrections Officers’ union.
Police said the shooter fled and has not been arrested.
The injured officers were off duty and at a party, said Benny Boscio, head of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, in a statement.
Two New York City corrections officers were injured in a nightclub shooting in Queens.Seth Gottfried for NY Post
Two hours later, at a restaurant on the other side of Queens on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights, NYPD said a dispute led to two people being shot — a 20-year-old woman and 37-year-old restaurant employee.
Queens’ bloody Saturday morning followed a Friday evening that saw four separate shootings in the span of hours in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
The violence got underway early on Adams Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. in East Harlem, where a man wearing all black and a face mask fired shots and ran just before 7 p.m., according to NYPD.
The shooting began when a man opened fire after being ejected from the nightclub. Seth Gottfried for NY Post
No injuries were initially reported, until later in the evening when a 27-year-old victim of the shooting “hobbled” into Lincoln Hospital with bullet wounds to each leg, the spokesman said.
An hour after the East Harlem shooting, a man, 32, was shot in the left arm by two attackers on a scooter on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, police said.
Fifteen minutes later, at 8:15 p.m., a woman was shot in the leg inside the lobby of NYCHA’s Betances Houses, NYPD said. A firearm was recovered at the scene and one person is in custody but has not been charged, according to the spokesman.
Later that night two people were shot in a restaurant in Jackson Heights. Seth Gottfried for NY Post
The evening’s fourth victim was a “highly uncooperative” man who cops said was shot in the left leg by an unknown perpetrator in Highbridge at around 11:40 p.m.
The man had a long list of prior arrests, according to police sources.

 

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More than 2 dozen shot over violent weekend in NYC: cops

Twenty-nine people were shot between Friday and Sunday in 24 separate incidents, the NYPD said on March 21, 2022.

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More than 2 dozen shot over violent weekend in NYC: cops​

By
Larry Celona,

Tina Moore and

Amanda Woods


March 21, 2022 9:45am
Updated

The NYPD is currently investigating multiple shootings that injured several people in the Bronx. Gregory P. Mango

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More than two dozen people were shot over the weekend – including a man blasted in the head inside a Brooklyn deli – ahead of Mayor Eric Adams’ planned announcement Monday about the NYPD’s new anti-gun units.
Twenty-nine people were shot between Friday and Sunday in 24 separate incidents, the NYPD said Monday.
The victims included two men hurt in separate shootings just minutes apart in East New York, cops said.
A 28-year-old man was shot in the head during a dispute inside a deli on Pitkin Avenue near Wyona Street around 4 p.m. Sunday, police said.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in critical but stable condition Monday morning, cops said.
No arrests have been made.
The suspect fled north on Wyona Street after the shooting, and no arrests have been made, police said.
Police investigate a shooting that took place in the Bronx on March 20, 2022 at the corner of Pitkin Avenue and Wyona Street.Gregory P. Mango Two suspects are being sought in connection to the shooting – at least one of whom is known to the victim.Gregory P. Mango
About 15 minutes earlier, a 27-year-old man was shot in the torso on the northbound C train platform at Shepherd Avenue, cops said.
The victim was also taken to Brookdale, in stable condition, police said.
Two suspects are being sought in connection to the shooting – at least one of whom is known to the victim, cops said.
13 victims were reported in nine incidents, police said. Just three people were shot in as many incidents on that day last year.Gregory P. Mango
The violence continued later Sunday night, when a man was grazed in the right forearm by a drive-by shooter on East Tremont Avenue near Bronx Park Avenue in the Van Nest section of the Bronx around 9 p.m., cops said.
He was treated on scene and not hospitalized, police said.
It is unclear whether he was the intended target.
Another shooting took place at the Shepherd avenue subway stop.Peter Gerber Police investigate at the crime scene at the subway station. Gregory P. Mango Twenty-nine people were shot between Friday and Sunday in 24 separate incidents, the NYPD said on March 21, 2022.Gregory P. Mango
In total Sunday, seven people were shot in six separate incidents, compared to just two shot in as many incidents on that day last year.
On Saturday, 13 victims were reported in nine incidents, police said. Just three people were shot in as many incidents on that day last year.
Nine people were shot in as many incidents Friday — while only one person was shot on that day in 2021.
Police have made no arrests in either shooting, though the person was shot in the subway is expected to survive. Gregory P. Mango

So far this year through Sunday, 284 people have been shot in 253 incidents citywide, the NYPD said.
At that point last year, 242 people were shot in 215 incidents, according to authorities.
The weekend’s violence erupted just days after the first wave of the NYPD’s new Neighborhood Safety Teams hit the streets.
The shootings come as Mayor Eric Adam’s anti-gun units begin to roll out. Peter Gerber
Adams is scheduled to make an announcement about the new anti-gun units at 4 p.m. Monday at Police Service Area 7 in the Bronx.
About 168 cops from the Neighborhood Safety Teams — a key pillar of Mayor Eric Adams’ crime-fighting plan — hit the streets in an initial phase last Monday after a slight delay.
The units replaced the controversial plainclothes anti-crime teams that were disbanded two years ago.

 

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At least 4 shot on grounds of NYCHA projects overnight: cops

At least four people were shot on the grounds of city housing projects Monday night – following a bloody weekend with nearly 30 victims of gun violence across the Big Apple, cops said.

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At least 4 shot on grounds of NYCHA projects overnight: cops​

By
Amanda Woods


March 22, 2022 10:02am
Updated

A man was shot in the leg on 12th Street near 40th Avenue in Queens. Peter Gerber

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At least four people were shot on the grounds of city housing projects Monday night – following a bloody weekend with nearly 30 victims of gun violence across the Big Apple, cops said.
In the most recent incident, a 27-year-old man was blasted in the left hand around 11:10 p.m. as he walked on West 119th Street near Malcolm X Boulevard, on the ground of NYCHA’s Taft Houses in Harlem, cops said.
The victim, who simply told police he heard shots and felt pain, walked into Lincoln Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
In Brooklyn, a woman was shot once in the arm and once in the face around 10 p.m. at Glenwood Road and East 108th Street in Canarsie, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Breukelen Houses, cops said.
The gunman appeared to be known to the victim, but their exact relationship is unclear, police said.
Police respond to a shooting on the grounds of the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City.Peter Gerber A broken car window from a stray bullet during a shooting in Queens.Peter Gerber
He was seen fleeing in a white-four door pickup truck, cops said.
The woman was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Earlier in the evening, a man was shot in the leg on 12th Street near 40th Avenue, on the grounds of the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, around 8:30 p.m., cops said.
A woman was shot once in the arm and once in the face around 10 p.m. in Brooklyn.Wayne Carrington
The gunman approached the victim and started shooting for an unknown reason, police said.
The victim went to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.
One person is in custody being interviewed, cops said.
A 45-year-old man was shot in the leg near a basketball court on East 166th Street near Forest Avenue.William Miller The Forest Houses gunman reportedly wore a black hoodie and black sweatpants.William Miller
And just before 7 p.m., a 45-year-old man was shot in the leg near a basketball court on East 166th Street near Forest Avenue, on the grounds of the Forest Houses in Morrisania, police said.
The gunman, who wore a black hoodie and black sweatpants, approached the victim and started firing before taking off, cops said.
The victim is expected to survive.
A shooting scene near the corner of Surf Avenue and West 30th Street in Coney Island.Wayne Carrington A 7-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet while standing with her mother at a Coney Island intersection.Wayne Carrington
The gunplay came hours after a 7-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet while standing with her mother at a Coney Island intersection — and in the aftermath of a violent weekend when 29 people were shot in 24 incidents.
The violence also erupted a week after the NYPD first began rolling out its new anti-gun unit — a key pillar of Mayor Eric Adams’ crime-fighting plan — which replaced the controversial plainclothes anti-crime teams that were disbanded two years ago.

 

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NYC homeless people and addicts cashing in on 24/7 ATM vestibules

A new banking crisis has hit the Big Apple: vagrants and addicts are commandeering ATM vestibules.

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NYC homeless people and addicts cashing in on 24/7 ATM vestibules​

By
Griffin Kelly


April 2, 2022 10:27am
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NYC homeless people and addicts cashing in on 24/7 ATM vestibules





A new banking crisis has hit the Big Apple: vagrants and addicts are commandeering ATM vestibules, snoozing and shooting up in locations with 24/7 service.
“It’s almost as though they’ve assumed ownership of the ATMs,” said Eugene O’Donnell, a John Jay professor and former NYPD officer. “It’s well recognized that an ATM can be a magnet for crime and violence, and you can’t think of a worse idea than having people domicile inside of one.”
The Post conducted two late night tours of Midtown banks this week and discovered at least eight instances of vagrants cashing in on lax enforcement.
Members of the New York Police Department expel a person sleeping in a Bank of America ATM vestibule.James Keivom

• At a Citibank on the 5th Avenue and E. 37th Street, a strung-out couple sat on the ground, shooting up what appeared to be heroin, forcing customers to wait till morning to make withdrawals.
• A drifter and his pet pit bull caught some Z’s under a blanket at a Bank of America on 3rd Avenue and E. 47th Street before police told him to leave.
• A derelict emptied his trash-filled shopping cart inside a City National Bank on 6th Avenue near W. 44th Street.
• A hooded tramp squatted in a TD Bank on the corner of Lexington Avenue and E. 45th Street while a beggar panhandled for change outside.
• A man snoozed in a sleeping bag inside a Bank of America on 5th Avenue between E. 46th and E. 45th streets.
• Three homeless men took shelter in a Bank of America on 3rd Avenue and E. 54th Street. One stripped off his shirt to patch holes in it while another lay in the fetal position next to his suitcase.
• A desperate man muscled open a locked ATM door to take shelter from the rain at a Chase Bank on Lexington Avenue near E. 43rd Street.
• A masked man snoozed on the floor of a TD Bank on 1st Avenue and E. 56th Street.

Matt Roberts, president of the 17th Precinct Community Council, which covers Midtown East neighborhoods including Murray Hill and Sutton Place, said the issue has hit full-blown crisis level.
A person sleeps in the ATM vestibule of a TD Bank branch.James Keivom
“The banks have been putting pressure on the police department for some enforcement, and my pushback to them is just lock your doors,” he said at a meeting Tuesday. “The reality of the situation is [customers] are not going into the banks with any regularity during the overnight hours.”
A confrontation between cops and a homeless man staying in a Citibank on Park Avenue on March 3 ended with the bum biting one officer and punching another in the face, cutting the officer’s cheek, police reports say.
“Ninety nine percent of the time, we’re able to move individuals [without conflict],” commanding officer Aaron Edwards said. “We can’t just go in and lock them up. We have to give them the opportunity to leave as part of the law.
A shirtless person sits in the ATM vestibule of a Bank of America.James Keivom
“Both cops are OK, and he was arrested.”
Roberts said the assaults could’ve been avoided.
“I don’t like to utilize police resources when we don’t need to, when there’s a preventable solution, but the banks want to provide round-the-clock service,” he told The Post.
A Citibank spokesperson did not comment on the assault of the officers and said the bank has no plans to discontinue 24/7 ATM service.
“People are afraid to enter when they see them,” retired police commander Edward Mamet told the Post.NY Post
“We take the safety and security of our clients and employees seriously. When we are alerted to an issue on our property, our security teams work quickly with law enforcement to address the issue,” a Bank of America rep said in an email.
TD Bank and City National Bank did not respond to requests for comments.
The problem is hardly isolated to Midtown.
Retired police commander Edward Mamet said homeless people take up residence in the Valley National Bank ATM attached to his East Village apartment building.
“What disturbs us is they do their bowel movements out on the street or sometimes in the vestibule. People are afraid to enter when they see them,” he told The Post.
A person sleeps in a Bank of America ATM vestibule.James Keivom
He said even if cops try to intervene, the problem won’t go away if the District Attorney’s Office doesn’t step up.
“The D.A. in Manhattan [Alvin Bragg] is a jerk. It’s the same situation in Brooklyn with D.A. [Eric] Gonzalez, so it’s a serious problem,” Mamet said.
One Twitter user posted Wednesday, “It’s nice how @BankofAmerica and @TDBank_US are both banks and homeless shelters. There are literally people living inside of the banks on 23rd street in NYC.”
Often, homeless people fear being robbed or attacked in the city’s shelters, but now with Mayor Eric Adams cracking down on homeless encampments and subway vagrancy, their options are shrinking.
“We’re walking past people that are living on cardboard boxes, in these makeshift, inhumane houses – this is just not right,” Adams told reporters Tuesday.
A person sleeps in the ATM vestibule of a Citibank.James Keivom
“Many more are going to [stay in vestibules] since Adams broke up the encampments,” said former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, who often sees vagrants in banks near his Upper West Side home. “Only five people went to a shelter. They didn’t just disappear. Bill De Blasio didn’t get it, and Adams doesn’t get it.”
Brenda Rosen, president of the homeless advocacy group Breaking Ground, said her organization is starting to deploy outreach teams into private spaces like retail stores.
“There are viable opportunities to bring our expertise into ATM vestibules as well,” she said in an email.

 

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NYU tour pelted with eggs as homeless continually harass groups in Greenwich Village

Prospective New York University students and their parents are getting an unwelcome taste of the Big Apple’s homeless crisis as they tour the college’s Greenwich Village campus.

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NYU tour pelted with eggs as homeless continually harass groups in Greenwich Village​

By
Melissa Klein


April 2, 2022 2:46pm
Updated

The student-led tour groups are being harassed by begging vagrants. Helayne Seidman

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It’s a tour de farce.
Prospective New York University students and their parents are getting an unwelcome taste of the Big Apple’s homeless crisis as they tour the college’s Greenwich Village campus.
The student-led tour groups are being routinely harassed by begging vagrants — and even assaulted. One group was pelted with eggs Monday afternoon standing outside the Goddard Hall dorm on Washington Square East.
A guide told The Post this week that he has been hassled for cash and grabbed by a vagrant demanding money.
In one shocking display in view of several tour groups, a homeless person laid down in the middle of West Fourth Street in what the guide said may have been a suicide attempt.
“Every single day something is happening,” the guide said. “Our duty is to sell the school, to showcase our campus and obviously being harassed is not something you want to deal with on a daily basis.”
At least one group of touring students was approached by someone looking for money, according to a tour guide.Helayne Seidman
He said the visitors to the school — where tuition, room and board will range from $78,440 to $84,169 next year — are none too pleased.
“You can see them visibly disgusted and say ‘I don’t want to apply here, I don’t want to apply here because I feel unsafe,'” the guide said.
He added that no one should forgo the school “just because a homeless person asks for money on the tour.”
One guide said visiting students look “visibly disgusted” by the harassment. Helayne Seidman
The guides in their purple jackets which say “Admissions Ambassador” lead small groups around campus stopping at the charming Washington Mews and in front of the library and student center. But they studiously avoid the most famous landmark associated with the college — Washington Square Park.
The park and its famous arch have been off limits for tours since they resumed last summer after a pandemic-imposed hiatus.
The park has been a nexus of drug dealing, out of control parties, unsanctioned boxing matches and violence in the last year. A teen was stabbed in the head in the park at 2:30 a.m. March 18 after he refused to hand over his pot.
But even on the edge of the park, the guides are harassed, according to the Washington Square News student paper, which reported on the egg-tossing incident.
The paper also reported that last year an unhinged man spit on another guide and started to follow a mom who exclaimed, “This campus is a bunch of bombs waiting to explode!”
Tour guides give a spiel campus safety including a recitation on security guards, shuttle buses and emergency call boxes.
“Anyone of reasonable intelligence would be concerned about safety in New York City or any large city,” said one prospective student who was visiting from Los Angeles and said he heard a similar safety talk at Columbia University.
Tour guides make it a point to discuss public safety at the Greenwich Village campus.Helayne Seidman
NYU announced this week it had received a record 105,000 applications for next year and offered admission to 12.2 percent of those who applied.
An NYU spokesman said tour guides had been provided with walkie-talkies, given de-escalation training and been assigned to go out on tours two at a time in order to deal with “disruptive individuals.”
Beginning Monday, the tour groups will again be able to go inside campus buildings as the college eases COVID-19 restrictions, said spokesman John Beckman.
An NYU security officer stands guard on campus. Helayne Seidman
“NYU, in conjunction with other universities, has been surfacing safety concerns to the new city administration, and these incidents involving admissions tours will be among the issues we’ll raise,” Beckman said.

 

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Majority of arrestees by NYPD’s new anti-gun unit have criminal history: Adams

Mayor Eric Adams lauded the progress made by his NYPD Neighborhood Safety Teams, which hit the streets in mid-March and has made more than 100 arrests.

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Majority of arrestees by NYPD’s new anti-gun unit have criminal history: Adams​

By
Sam Raskin


April 3, 2022 2:03pm
Updated

Mayor Eric Adams spoke about the success of the new NYPD Neighborhood Safety Teams in an interview on "Face the Nation." Lev Radin/Pacific Press via ZUMA Press Wire

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The NYPD’s new anti-gun unit has netted more than 100 arrests since it launched last month — and nearly 70 percent of those busted have a prior criminal history, officials said Sunday.
Mayor Eric Adams lauded the progress made by his Neighborhood Safety Teams, which hit the streets in mid-March in response to the Big Apple’s uptick in gun violence.
“We have to stop the flow of guns, but we also must do the jobs of getting the guns off the streets that’s on there now, and my anti-gun unit, they’re doing that,” Adams said on “Face the Nation” Sunday.
“Just a few weeks out, they removed over 20-something guns off the street. But here’s the interesting number — 70 percent of those who were carrying the guns had prior violent offenses.”
Since its March 14 launch, NSTs — a revamped version of the NYPD’s controversial plainclothes anti-crime unit — have made 101 arrests, 22 of which were for guns, a City Hall spokesman said, citing data through March 30. Seventy of those collars — or 69 percent — were of defendants with prior arrests, the rep said. And, of the 22 people busted with guns, 14 had prior criminal history.
The Neighborhood Safety Teams were launched on March 14 to combat gun violence in the city. Here are the NYPD precincts where the new anti-gun teams have been roaming the streets, according to a police memo obtained by The Post.NY Post graphic
The NSTs are a central piece to Adams’ plan to combat gun violence and the new unit was announced after two NYPD officers were shot and killed in Harlem.
The anti-crime unit was disbanded in the summer of 2020 by former Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, who said a “disproportionate” number of high-profile incidents involved the plainclothes cops.
Adams has repeatedly vowed that the new teams — whose uniforms clearly identify them as NYPD officers unlike the old plainclothes squads — will not repeat mistakes made by the “abusive” anti-crime units.
NYPD plainclothes anti-crime unit officers in Manhattan in 2020 before the units were disbanded.Stefan Jeremiah
Previously, officials said the NSTs had nabbed 31 people and recovered 10 guns in its first week.





Among the anti-gun unit team’s busts was that of a 20-year-old accused Bloods member, who Adams dubbed “the poster child of the failing system.” The retired NYPD captain has repeatedly argued that Albany lawmakers should grant New York judges the authority to consider the dangerousness of criminal defendants during pre-trial court proceedings.
On Sunday, Adams also defended his prior warning to New York City residents to not film police officers making arrests at a close distance.
“Nothing is more dangerous than if a police officer is fighting with someone that has a gun is fighting with someone who has a gun and you have a person standing over him, taping that interaction. That is extremely dangerous,” he explained on the weekly morning show.
“So what we’re saying to New Yorkers is: film. [The] Eric Garner case, the young man filmed a safe distance away. He did not interrupt or interfere.”
He added, “That is how you film, you don’t do it [in a way that] endangers yourself, or that police officer who’s taking action.”
Last month, Adams slammed civilians who film police officers too closely while they’re making arrests, saying it creates a “dangerous environment” and makes the jobs of law enforcement more difficult.
According to Adams, 70 percent of the NST’s arrests have had a history of violent crimes.Photo by John Lamparski/Sipa USA
“If an officer is on the ground wrestling with someone that has a gun, they should not have to worry about someone standing over them with a camera while they’re wrestling with someone,” he added during the press conference in Queens. “Not acceptable. It’s not going to continue to happen.”

 

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Major crimes continue to soar in NYC despite return to ‘broken windows’ policing

Serious crime and shootings showed no sign of slowing down last month as new NYPD data show a 37 percent increase in major crimes citywide.

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Major crimes continue to soar in NYC despite return to ‘broken windows’ policing​

By
Craig McCarthy and

Gabrielle Fonrouge


April 6, 2022 5:05pm
Updated

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced that major crimes in the city were up 37 percent in March. William Farrington







Serious crime and shootings showed no sign of slowing down last month as new NYPD data show a 37 percent increase in major crimes citywide, numbers released Wednesday show.
In the first 100 days of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, the tough-on-crime former police captain has touted the creation of a new anti-gun unit and a return to broken windows policing but so far, the controversial initiatives have done little to stem crime overall.
While both homicides and rapes dropped 15.8% and 4.3% respectively in March compared to 2021, shootings, robberies, felony assaults, burglaries, grand larcenies, auto thefts and hate crimes have all spiked compared to last year.
The overall jump this year is largely driven by steep increases in vehicle thefts, robberies, grand larcenies and burglaries, cops said.
Shooting incidents spiked 16.2% in March and year to date, the NYPD has clocked 332 victims of gun violence – a 14.5% increase compared to the same period in 2021 and an average rate of nearly four shooting victims per day, data show.
“Our police need more help,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Wednesday during the first crime stats press conference held since Adams took office and only the second time the rookie commissioner has briefed reporters at police headquarters.
Sewell said that “our police need more help” at her press conference on crime data on April 6, 2022.William Farrington
“We need help from every corner of the criminal justice system and from everyone who lives in, works in or visits our great city. Any amount of crime and disorder is unacceptable.”
The continued spike in shootings happened during some of the coldest months of the year when gun violence usually dips and it’s a trend that police sources worry will only get worse come summertime when shootings traditionally tick up in the warmer months.
The data comes as Adams, who clinched the vote on the promise he’d bring safety and order back to the Big Apple, marked 100 days in office. His tenure so far has been marred by seven police shootings and crime levels that continue to eclipse pre-pandemic numbers.
Juana Esperanza Soriano De-Perdomo was struck by a stray bullet while walking in the Bronx this week.
While crime remains a far cry from what has been dubbed in Gotham as the “bad ol’ days” of the 1980s and 1990s, they remain at a five-year high overall at least.
Compared to pre-pandemic, 2019 levels, vehicle thefts in March 2022 are up 107%, shootings increased 69%, grand larceny spiked 26%, felony assault is up 22.5% and robberies saw a 37% uptick.
On Monday evening around 7 p.m., 61-year-old Juana Esperanza Soriano De-Perdomo was walking on East 188th Street near Grand Concourse when she was fatally struck by a stray bullet, cops said.
Several days earlier, 12-year-old Kade Lewin was killed when a stray bullet struck him in the head while he was sitting in a parked car with two relatives in Brooklyn and on March 25, a 3-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet while leaving her Brooklyn daycare around 6 p.m.
The NYPD’s new anti-gun unit, dubbed the Neighborhood Safety Teams and considered a revamped version of the disbanded anti-crime unit, has been chiefed with reducing street crime and shootings. In the three weeks since the program took effect on March 14, the teams have made 135 arrests but only 19% were for firearms, or just 25, said Chief of Department Ken Corey.
Of those arrested for guns, four were juveniles, five have open felony cases and seven were previously convicted of a crime.
According to Chief of Department Ken Corey, just 19% of the Neighborhood Safety Teams’ arrests have been for firearms.William Farrington
In total, 91 of the 135 cuffed have prior arrests, 57 have prior felony arrests and 21 were on parole or probation when they were taken into custody, Corey said.
Of those arrested, only 10% are still behind bars, Corey said, but failed to provide specifics on what the defendants were charged with and why they were out of jail.
Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri attempted to blame the uptick in auto thefts, burglaries and robberies on “recidivists” but the impact repeat offenders have had is negligible. While recidivist arrests for robberies, burglaries and vehicle thefts increased 47% in 2022 compared to 2019, repeat offenders accounted for less than a percent of those arrested for the crimes this year.
When asked how long it’ll take to see a reduction in crime following the creation of the NSTs and change in policing style, Sewell said results are expected “fairly quickly.”
“But we do know it does not take weeks to reverse trends that have happened over the last several years but we are working every single day to change those numbers,” Sewell said.
“We certainly don’t want people to have to wait. One of the reasons we take an overview is we want to see what’s working and what’s not working and be able to correct it as we move along. We are definitely not taking our eye off the ball and we expect our results to be reflected in that and that’s what I think we are starting to see.”

 

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Big Apple shoplifting skyrockets 81% compared to last year

So far this year, there’s been more than 5,000 petty larceny, grand larceny and robbery complaints stemming from shoplifting incidents citywide.

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Big Apple shoplifting skyrockets 81% compared to last year​

By
Craig McCarthy and

Gabrielle Fonrouge


April 6, 2022 6:34pm
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Big Apple shoplifting skyrockets 81% this year compared to last







Merchandise at New York’s stores has been quite the steal.
Shoplifting complaints in the Big Apple have skyrocketed 81% this year compared to last as the city continues to reel from a crime surge that’s eclipsing pre-pandemic levels, data released Wednesday show.
So far this year, there’s been more than 5,000 petty larceny, grand larceny and robbery complaints stemming from shoplifting incidents citywide, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said during a Wednesday crime statistics briefing.
“We’ve seen an increase of 81% of shoplifting complaints that includes petty larceny, grand larcenies and robberies where individuals go in and continue to steal merchandise, and then are confronted by a worker and then they get assaulted,” LiPetri said.
A man attempting to shoplift from a Duane Reade in Manhattan on February 15, 2022.Matthew McDermott
That’s up from about 2,100 shoplifting complaints recorded during the same period last year when many New Yorkers were at home avoiding the post-holiday, winter COVID-19 surge.
Of those arrested for shoplifting related offenses over the past two years, 2,000 are recidivists who’ve been cuffed three or more times and 379 have been taken into custody three or more times for shoplifting crimes specifically, LiPetri said.
Drug stores across the Big Apple have been reeling from a recent rash of thefts — some of which have turned violent.
A man shoplifting steaks from a Trader Joe’s store in Manhattan on February 8, 2022.Steven Hirsch
A shoplifter brutally attacked a female store employee who confronted him for pilfering products from a freezer at a Morningside Heights Duane Reade in February, cops said previously.
The man allegedly punched the 21-year-old worker in the face, grabbed her hair and threw her to the floor, police said.
In late January, a man and woman snatched four packs of paper towels from the shelves at a Duane Reade on Park Avenue South near East 28th Street around 9:10 a.m., cops said.
When a 43-year-old worker confronted the duo, the male suspect pulled a box cutter on her and snarled, “If you keep recording, I will hurt you,” police said.
The most bizarre theft came when a man dubbed the “Hamburglar” was spotted calmly walking out with an armful of roughly a dozen steaks from a Manhattan Trader Joe’s in February

 

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NYC traffic deaths up 35 percent so far this year

NYPD records show 58 people — including pedestrians — died in car crashes through April 3.

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NYC traffic deaths up 35 percent so far this year​

By
Conor Skelding


April 9, 2022 12:44pm
Updated

A man on motorized wheelchair was killed in Brooklyn on Feb. 5. Paul Martinka for NY Post






Traffic fatalities in New York City have surged a shocking 35 percent so far this year, according to police data.
NYPD records show 58 people — including pedestrians — died in car crashes through April 3, a sharp increase over the 43 killed in the same period in 2021.
The tragic numbers are sure to disappoint City Hall — where Mayor Adams has promised to build on predecessor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero,” which aimed to eliminate traffic deaths.
“Thirty-five percent more in deaths in the first quarter of the year is a lot. And last year was not good,” said Jon Orcutt, advocacy director of Bike New York and former policy director of Mayor Bloomberg’s Department of Transportation.
A total of 274 died in traffic fatalities in 2021, according to DOT data shared by Orcutt — up from 243 in 2020 and 220 in 2019.
“We’ve seen deaths going down for decades, really since about 1990. Steadily. The long trend has been down. We are losing that long trend. This could be the fourth year in a row of traffic deaths going up,” he said.
NYPD records show 58 people — including pedestrians — died in car crashes through April 3.Robert Mecea for NY Post
Some traffic experts blamed a reduction in NYPD enforcement, leading to vehicular “chaos” in the streets.
Records show a 57 percent post-pandemic decrease in summonses issued by the NYPD for “hazardous” driving violations. The police handed out 387,469 such summonses in fiscal year 2021 — down from 902,482 in fiscal year 2019, according to the Mayor’s Management Report, which tracks performance by city agencies.
Over the same period, driving while intoxicated arrests also fell 56 percent. Just 2,583 such busts were made citywide during fiscal year 2021, down from 5,826 in fiscal year 2019, the report shows.
“Drivers know there’s very little anyone is going to do, no matter what they do, how they drive. … We’re not even treating traffic rules as guidelines anymore. It’s a free for all,” Orcutt said. “It needs to start with the police. They need to claw back this idea that you can do whatever you want in a car in New York.”
“A lot of this is de Blasio’s fault. He left this completely unmanaged. … But it’s getting to be the current mayor’s fault,” he added.
The recent deaths are “most prevalent … during the overnight hours” on highways uptown, and in The Bronx, The NYPD said in a statement, adding the department’s Highway Unit plans to increase enforcement.
Some traffic experts blamed a reduction in NYPD enforcement, leading to vehicular “chaos” in the streets.Paul Martinka for NY Post
The NYPD pegged a decrease in enforcement to its officers being out sick during the pandemic, and “an increase in officers assigned to monitor civil unrest.”
“We recognize that the NYPD has a finite amount of resources and continually employs precision policing to traffic enforcement,” the department continued.
One traffic expert describes “a kind of chaos” on the roads from fed up, frustrated drivers, especially as they might be gunning for a parking spot.
“There’s so much dangerous maneuvering that drivers are doing when they see a parking space. They’ll do a U-turn — or the sudden backing into it,” said Charles Komanoff, author of “Killed by Automobile.”
DOT spkesman Tomas Garita said, “Unfortunately, New York City has not been immune from disturbing national trends during the pandemic that have contributed to an increase in traffic fatalities across the country. The administration is working around the clock to make our streets safer and focusing on making intersections, where more than half of traffic fatalities occur, a sacred space for all New Yorkers.”

 

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‘No one is safe’: 3 dead, at least 13 wounded in series of NYC shootings

Three people were killed and at least 12 others were wounded in a series of shootings that rocked parts of The Bronx and Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

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‘No one is safe’: 3 dead, at least 12 wounded in series of NYC shootings​

By
Larry Celona,

Joe Marino and

Jesse O’Neill


April 13, 2022 12:43am
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Six shootings around NYC so far Tuesday evening













Three people were killed and at least 12 others were wounded in a series of shootings that rocked parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn on Tuesday night, police and sources said.
The fatalities included a 23-year-old woman and two men, 22 and 21, who were all killed in separate Bronx shootings. At least five other shootings were reported in New York City during a roughly six-hour span, authorities said.
A 15-year-old girl was among the surviving victims, who were all struck by gunfire in shootings that occurred outdoors just hours after the worst subway shooting in the city’s history left 10 others wounded.
“Another nice day. Everybody’s out in the street, and everybody’s getting shot,” a Brooklyn cop told The Post. “No one is safe.”
The bloodshed began with a triple shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 4:30 p.m. in front of 441 Gates Ave., which is part of NYCHA’s Armstrong complex, police said.
A 43-year-old man was hit by a bullet in his lower back, a 41-year-old man was grazed in his right arm, and a 26-year-old man suffered an injury to his left leg, according to the NYPD.
The victims were taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition while police looked for the shooter.
Moments after 7 p.m., a 15-year-old girl was hit in the leg by gunfire in front of 3958 Laconia Ave. in the Edenwald section of the Bronx, police said.
It was unclear what led to the attack, and the shooter remained at large while the victim was taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
Police at the scene where three people were shot at East 180th Street at Mohegan Avenue in the Bronx.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
Three minutes later, a 41-year-old man was shot in his right leg in front of 380 Etna Ave. in Brooklyn’s Cypress Hill neighborhood, the NYPD reported.
The uncooperative victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital and the shooter remained in the wind, authorities said.
Just before 7:45 p.m., another triple shooting killed one man and injured two others in the Bronx at the intersection of Crotona’s East 180 Street and Mohegan Avenue, according to police.
Wayne Goodwin, 22, was hit multiple times around his body several blocks away from his home and was pronounced dead. A 47-year-old man and a 21-year-old man were being treated at Saint Barnabas Medical Center for gunshots to their legs, the NYPD said.
Around 8:20 p.m. in Canarsie, Brooklyn, a man was hit when shots rang out in front of 950 E. 86th St., according to police
Police at the scene of a shooting at Sheridan Avenue and McClellan Street in the Bronx.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
Back in the Bronx about 20 minutes later, 23-year-old Sally Ntim died after she was shot in the head in the intersection of Sheridan Avenue and McClellan Street, police said.
It was unclear if she was the intended victim, police said. The shooter remained at large.

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At 9:50 p.m., a 22-year-old man was shot in the head outside 3218 Cruger Ave. in the borough’s Williamsbridge section, police said. The young man was not expected to survive his injuries.
At least four more people — three men and a woman — were shot outside 2825 Olinville Ave. in the Bronx at about 10:10 p.m., police said.
Jessie Bynum, 21, was shot in the head and succumbed to his injuries, police said.
Police at the scene of a shooting on Olinville Avenue in the Bronx.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
The bloodshed came hours after Gov. Kathy Hochul said gun violence “has to end, and it ends now,” following a lone gunman’s mass shooting of Brooklyn subway commuters Tuesday morning. Ten people were shot and 19 more were injured, but miraculously no one was killed, authorities said.
Recent NYPD data showed major crimes were up 37 percent from the same time last year, although homicides were down 16 percent compared to 2021.
The violence came two days after Mayor Eric Adams expressed “concern” about an increase in crime during the upcoming hot summer months.

 

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Two stabbed during fight on Harlem subway platform, cops say

The male suspect knifed the victims, aged 19 and 20, on the southbound No. 2 train platform at the 135th Street station around 1 a.m., according to police.

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Two stabbed during fight on Harlem subway platform, cops say​

By
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April 13, 2022 10:10am
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Two men were stabbed during a dispute with another man on the southbound 2 train







Two men were stabbed during a fight on a Harlem train platform early Wednesday, cops said.
The male suspect knifed the victims, aged 19 and 20, on the southbound No. 2 train platform at the 135th Street station around 1 a.m., according to police.
Both were walked into Harlem Hospital for treatment, and are listed in stable condition.
The male attacker fled the station, but was arrested nearby, cops said.
A knife was recovered, police said.
Charges are pending.
The cause of the fight leading up to the stabbing was not immediately clear.
The incident came hours after the horrific Brooklyn subway rampage that injured 29 people — 10 of whom were shot.
Mayor Eric Adams vowed to double the number of NYPD officers on the subway system in the wake of the bloodshed.
The stabbing happened at the 135th Street station around 1 a.m.Robert Mecea Two men were stabbed during a fight on the train platform.Robert Mecea The victims, aged 19 and 20, were walked into the hospital in stable condition.Robert Mecea The suspect fled the station but was arrested nearby.Robert Mecea

 

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NYC subway crime surging, with robberies up 72% and assaults 28%

Violent crime on the subway is skyrocketing, NYPD stats show.

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NYC subway crime surging, with robberies up 72% and assaults 28%​

By
Conor Skelding


April 16, 2022 1:29pm
Updated

Major felonies reported in the subway system rose 68 percent in the first 4 months of 2022 compared to 2021. Ap/John Minchillo

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Violent crime on the subway is skyrocketing, NYPD stats show.
Robberies surged by 72%, with 165 reported this year through April 10, up from 96 in the same period in 2021.
Felony assaults rose 28%, with 169 attacks logged, compared to 132 during the same period a year earlier, according to Compstat data.
Rapes doubled, from two to four.
The stats do not include the 10 people shot and 20 others hurt in the gun and smoke assault by, cops say, an unhinged Frank James on an N train in Brooklyn Tuesday.
Non-violent crimes are also way up underground.
Grand larcenies spiked 110%, to 275 from 131.
Overall, major felonies reported in the subway system rose 68 percent, to 617, from 367, through April 10.
Murders decreased from three to two.

 

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Upper West Side food vendors robbed at gunpoint

The incidents are part of a wider, disturbing pattern plaguing the al fresco grub sellers in Upper Manhattan.

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Upper West Side food vendors robbed at gunpoint​

By
Griffin Kelly


April 23, 2022 8:52am
Updated

A spike in robberies of food vendors on the Upper West Side is causing anxiety amongst grub sellers. J.C. Rice for NY Post


The Upper West Side is becoming the wild west for late night outdoor food vendors — who have been targeted by gun-toting thieves four times in the past week alone, The Post has learned.
The incidents are part of a wider, disturbing pattern plaguing the al fresco grub sellers in Upper Manhattan, said police.

• On April 3, a gun-toting man walked up to a coffee cart at Broadway and West 136th Street in Harlem, stealing $500 and a $200 cell phone from the 38-year-old man manning the cart, police said.
• On April 16, a pistol-wielding perp walked up to a taco truck at Broadway and West 70th Street just before 2 a.m., and stole $500 and a cell phone from a 19-year-old woman working there, the NYPD said. The crook threatened to shoot the woman if she left the truck, cops said.
• On April 18, a man approached a fruit vendor on Broadway and 86th Street, asking for change for a $10 bill. When the vendor took out his cash, the crook whipped out his handgun, stole $150 and the vendor’s cell phone, the NYPD said.
• On April 19, just after midnight, the taco truck at Broadway and West 70th was hit again, this time for $65 while a woman, 48, was working.
• The same day, just before 6 p.m. a thief waved his gun at a 31-year-old woman cooking at a Tasty Burrito truck on Amsterdam Avenue, between West 76th Street and West 77th Street, and made off with $150.

“Before it happened, I was fine. Now I’m scared all the time,” said Cafil Mahmud, who was working at the fruit stand when it was robbed. “I’m all alone here. It’s empty. No one is watching. There are barely any taxis. All of it is slow.”
He was able to find his cellphone after the robber ditched it only a few blocks away.
The neighborhood is desolate and eerily quiet for much of Mahmud’s 10 p.m to 5 a.m. shift – few pedestrians, even fewer fellow vendors and no familiar faces – so he’s always nervous about who might walk up on him, he told The Post.
The 50-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant said finding a new, safer job isn’t an option. He’s been working at the fruit stand off the books for 12 years, making about $700 a week, to support his wife and three kids, one of whom is in college.
“If I go someplace else, I might only make $400 or $500 a week because of taxes,” he said.
Mahmud’s coworker on the day shift said there’s not much a vendor can do when someone shoves a gun in their face.
“You just give the money and that’s it. That’s what you’ve got to do to stay alive,” Taskin Elmali said. “I’ve worked here for 10 years, and it was a really good, safe place, but I’ve never seen it like this before.”
Pedro Cortez, 20, works at the Taco y Quesadilla truck that was robbed twice. Using a translator app, the Mexico City native described the incidents as “very ugly” ordeals and said he fears it will happen to him in the future.
Other vendors along Broadway are worried they may be next.
“Every morning, I start my day, leave my house and pray to God to save me,” said Ahmed Abdelfattah, 50. “I have to make a living.”
Originally from Egypt, Abdelfattah began parking his breakfast cart between 70th and 71st Street in January. Six weeks ago, in the early morning, thieves stole his generator when he briefly stepped away .
“A new one costs $1,200, and I haven’t made enough money for it yet.”
He’s been serving coffee, donuts and croissants by the white glow of a small, portable work light ever since.
Abdelfattah said there should be more unmarked cruisers and plain clothes police officers in the neighborhood, a measure Mayor Eric Adams reinstated to focus on the fight against illegal firearms.
“Especially around here by the (72nd Street) subway, so if anything happens, the cops can stop people trying to get on the train,” he said.
Residents are scared, too.
“It’s really horrifying. We’re used to walking through this neighborhood night and day and feeling safe, and now it doesn’t,” Jill Berman, who has been buying her produce at the fruit stand for years, said. “Normally you feel protected because these vendors are out here, but now they’re the ones who need protection.”
It’s not just street vendors being targeted. A wanted poster was taped to Cortez’ truck, asking for information about another recent gunpoint robbery in the neighborhood at El Gallo Taqueria, on Amsterdam Avenue between West 83rd Street and West 84th Street.
The Taqueria was held up April 17, by a thief who drew his weapon before snatching the tip jar and $119 from the register.
Two other armed robberies were reported at brick and mortar restaurants in Harlem and the Upper West Side.
Only one arrest has been made so far. Ryan Little, 37, was arrested after allegedly holding up Jimbo’s Hamburger Palace on Amsterdam between Martin Luther King Boulevard and West 126th Street, where he allegedly snagged $1,500 from the register. He was caught after someone from the restaurant chased him into nearby St. Nicholas Park, police said.
Investigations are still ongoing for the other six robberies, police said.

 

[The Bobster]

NYC crime spikes in Manhattan’s East and West villages

Major crimes are surging in both the East and West villages, turning Manhattan’s once iconic arts and culture hubs into cesspools of rampant property thieves.

nypost.com

NYC crime spikes in Manhattan’s East and West villages​

By
Griffin Kelly


April 23, 2022 12:29pm
Updated

NYPD data shows that crime in the East and West Villages is rising far above the city average.

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They’re the Villages of the Damned.
Major crimes are surging in both the East and West villages, turning Manhattan’s once iconic arts and culture hubs into cesspools of rampant property thieves.
The Sixth Precinct, which patrols the West Village, saw an 84 percent spike in major crime rates when compared to 2021’s year-to-date numbers — the highest increase among Manhattan’s 22 precincts and nearly two times the citywide jump of 44 percent — NYPD data shows. The Ninth Precinct, which serves the East Village, the Bowery and NoHo, is also seeing an uptick in property thefts and violent attacks with the total major crime rate jumping 54 percent so far this year compared to the same time period in 2021, police data shows.
In Greenwich Village:

• Grand larcenies more than doubled from 147 to 308
• Burglaries surged from 59 to 100, or 70 percent
• Robberies rocketed from 47 to 69, or 47 percent
• Vehicle thefts increased from 3 to 12
• Felony assaults ticked up from 32 to 41

Residents and business owners there are fed up with the abundance of shoplifters that include vagrants, small-time fencers and even families.
Sara Morales at the West 4th Marketplace says shoplifters have targeted her deli constantly since it opened in January. Helayne Seidman
“I certainly feel not safe. Coke heads, heroin, what have you – It’s just mayhem out there,” said Terr Le, a liquor store owner who calls the cops on crooks at least twice a week. “It’s just crazy and people are on the edge.”
Sara Morales at the West 4th Market Place said she’s dealt with constant shoplifters since the deli opened in January.
“One lady started taking candies and drinks and putting them in her pocket like it was her house,” she said. “She took a hammer out of her bag, trying to hit my coworker when we went to stop her.”
Despite threats to her business and health, Morales said she’ll often give away food if vagrants simply ask.
Kyle McCoy who manages Atelier, says that soft bail reform laws spur crime. Helayne Seidman
Kyle McCoy, who manages Atelier on W. 8th St., recently stopped a father, mother and teenage daughter from swiping a $1,300 skirt. He said there’s no solution because bail reform laws go easy on criminals.
“It’s stupid,” he said. “Shoplifters get a little slap on the wrist.”
An NYPD spokesperson said the Sixth Precinct’s neighborhood coordination and public safety officers are now focusing their patrols more on commercial establishments and retail stores.
Some incidents in the Sixth Precinct were perpetrated by recidivists criminals, a statewide consequence of bail reform laws that is only exacerbated by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s soft on crime policies and catch-and-release strategies.
Zachary Westcott, 41, entered the Old G Connivance store on W. 14th Street in January and brandishing a weapon he said to the clerk, “Give me a pack of Newports or I will kill,” police reports say. Westcott was later charged in other cases for assault, petit larceny and assaulting police officers.
The 6th precinct, which covers the West Village, recorded an 84 percent increase in crime. Helayne Seidman
There was also 33-year-old Farrah Hales, who on March 5, attempted to steal a frying pan, juice, and saute pots from a Morton Williams supermarket on Bleeker Street before telling staff, “I have a knife and I will stab you,” and fleeing toward Washington Square Park. So far this year, she was also charged with criminal mischief, robbery, possession of a controlled substance and menacing.
Over in the East Village, things aren’t much better.
Compared to 2021’s year-to-date numbers, robberies more than doubled from 37 to 81, grand larcenies shot up 79 percent from 154 to 275 and felony assaults increased from 42 to 55.
Folks there say the neighborhood is starting to revert to the bad old days.
Leroy “Big Lee” Lloyd, who owns The Hard Swallow bar on 1st Avenue compared his neighborhood to John Carpenter’s dystopian movie, “Escape from New York.”
“It seems like a lot of unstable people walking around the neighborhood. Fights breaking out everywhere,” bartender Rob Rossi, 49, said in a text. “Lotta stores are getting robbed, especially bodegas. People getting robbed in plain daylight. My friend Crystal got beat up on St. Paddy’s day at 7:45pm by Avenue B, and she is Asian. She was punched a few times in the face.
“The neighborhood looks like it’s from the ‘90s, before it took a turn for the better.”
Leroy “Big Lee” Lloyd, who owns The Hard Swallow bar on 1st Avenue, compared the current state of the neighborhood to John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York,” a classic 1980s dystopian film where Manhattan is converted into a lawless prison island.
The 9th Precinct, which covers the East Village, Bowery, and NOHO, has seen a 54 percent increase in crime in its neighborhood. Christopher Sadowski
“I’ve had to cut back on security lately because sales have been down,” he said. “I was at another bar just last week where I had to help out and calm a wild guy down. I left and then an hour later, the bartender there calls me and says the dude jumped behind the bar, tried to steal the register and broke one of the DJ’s jaw.”