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Four hurt in overnight NYC mayhem, cops say​



By
Dean Balsamini


December 10, 2022 9:32am
Updated





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None of the overnight bloodshed proved fatal. Seth Gottfried




Three shootings in Brooklyn and a stabbing in Queens left four people hurt in separate incidents overnight, police said.
None of the bloodshed proved fatal.
In the latest Brooklyn shooting, a 37-year-old man was shot in the stomach outside Gravesend Neck Road, near McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
The shooter was an adult man, cops said.
The victim was taken to Lutheran Hospital in stable condition. There were no arrests.




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Less than an hour earlier, at 1:50 a.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the torso following a dispute with another man along New York Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the NYPD said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.

A 37-year-old man was shot in the stomach outside Gravesend Neck Road, near McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.A 37-year-old man was shot in the stomach outside Gravesend Neck Road, near McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.Seth Gottfried  A 24-year-old man was shot in the torso following a dispute with another man along New York Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.A 24-year-old man was shot in the torso following a dispute with another man along New York Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.Seth Gottfried
At 1:15 a.m., also in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a 53-year-old man was shot once in the right leg on Broadway, near Myrtle Avenue. The gunfire followed an argument with an unidentified man, cops said.


The victim was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in stable condition. There were no arrests.

A 53-year-old man was shot once in the right leg on Broadway, near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.A 53-year-old man was shot once in the right leg on Broadway, near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant following an argument with an unidentified man, the NYPD said.Seth Gottfried
At 11 p.m. Friday in Queens, a man whose age was not immediately available was slashed in the stomach and arm by “two to three” men “known to him” following a dispute on 194th Street near 75th Avenue in Fresh Meadows, police said.





The victim was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Queens in stable condition. There were no arrests.
 

Manhattan’s trendiest neighborhoods terrorized by thieves, NYPD stats show​



By
Jack Morphet,

Kyle Schnitzer and

Tina Moore


December 25, 2022 5:28pm
Updated








Manhattan’s trendiest tourist-packed neighborhoods have become increasingly terrorized by brazen thieves who are leaving shop workers stymied and scared.
Grand larcenies, or thefts of $1,000 or more, have soared up to over 60% in Gotham precincts in the past year, according to the latest NYPD stats — and some business owners blame the state’s lax bail laws for dumping suspects back on the streets to strike again.
“There’s a true belief out there among criminals that they’re going to get away with it,” Jim Giddon, whose Rothmans men’s clothing store in Gramercy was once robbed twice in about a week by the same gang, told The Post.
The grand-larceny crisis is so bad that Mayor Eric Adams held a “summit’’ with business leaders at Gracie Mansion earlier this month to deal with the spike in retail thefts, although sources said he left the two-hour powwow after about 20 minutes.
Lower Manhattan. NuFrame Shop was robbed in September.Grand larcenies have soared up to over 60% in Gotham precincts in the past year.Gabriella Bass
“That doesn’t sound much like a summit,’’ Giddon said.
In the 13th district, grand larcenies increased to 998 incidents from 796.In the 13th Precinct, grand larceny jumped 25.4 percent.Gabriella Bass
Grand larcenies have shot up about 27.6% citywide so far this year over the same period in 2021, with the largest increase — 63.4 percent — in the Midtown South Precinct, which includes Times Square, Grand Central Terminal and Madison Square Garden. That means 2,287 incidents this year versus 1,387 in 2021 for the Manhattan precinct.




Gary Karry, the manager at Gem Pawnbrokers on Eighth Avenue between West 39th and 40th streets, recalled how a crook easily snatched a ring and glasses worth more than $1,000 from his store over the summer.
“He said, ‘Oh, let me see that ring, I used to have something like this,’ ” said store sales manager Ligia Kourany — noting that the “customer’’ told her he had just gotten out of jail and that a relative was going to buy him the ring.
“I showed him the ring,” Kourany said.
“Then he said ‘Oh, you have Cartier glasses, let me see them.’ He liked nice things. I gave him the glasses,” the manager said. “He saw an opportunity to run because we buzzed the door open for someone else, and he ran.”
But Karry said he’ll be ready if anyone tries to pull the same stunt again.
“I have a big machete if I need it,” he said.







Last week, Adams conceded that “grand larcenies are killing our [crime] stats in the city’’ — and it’s not just businesses that are getting targeted.


“Tourists are often getting robbed on our block,” said Shahid Munir, manager of Antiques on 5th in the precinct.


“The cops have come to our store at least five times this year to get our surveillance footage of robberies outside our store.”


Ava Homsey, 22, of Yonkers, who moved to New York from Boston earlier this year, said, “Things are just getting worse.


“People are getting more desperate,’’ Homsey said. “We’re in tough times. … I heard that it’s so much different than last year.”





Gerard Pozo, 40, an accountant from Harlem, called the perception of rampant crime “crazy, it really is.


“Crime comes and goes, but it’s 100% worse right now. I hope the city gets safer,” he said.


In the Sixth Precinct, which includes Greenwich Village, grand larcenies have jumped a whopping 57.3%, from 853 incidents to 1,340, the data show.


One of those crimes occurred at the NuFrame gallery on 10th Street on Sept. 13.


Framing consultant Rachel Lipscomb, 25, was working by herself at the gallery around 6 p.m. when a thief swiped a framed photograph worth an estimated $2,500.


“I heard yelling down the street. These two men came rushing into the store and were like, ‘Call the police!’ ” Lipscomb said.


She said a third man ran into the store chasing them. They were all yelling at each other.

Mayor Eric Adams held a “summit” with business leaders at Gracie Mansion earlier this month to deal with the spike in retail thefts.Matthew McDermott
“The guy who ran in last just grabbed one [piece of art] and left,’’ the worker said. “So I chased him. He was just really pissed. We tug-of-warred with it until he acted like he was going to hit me with it.”


The thief told Lipscomb matter-of-factly he could steal whatever he wanted.


Lipscomb recalled saying, “Dude, you can’t take that. Hey, you can’t steal that.”




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“Yes, I can,” the thief replied.


“What the f–k, dude. You can’t take that!” the clerk said.


She finally let the frame go, and the thief took off.


The NYPD said the same thief who took the art also pulled off a robbery in the nearby First Precinct two days earlier, on Sept. 11, at Prince Street and Thompson Street.


The suspect approached an 82-year-old man who was sitting on a stoop and snatched his cellphone from his hand before fleeing southbound on West Broadway on his bicycle, cops said.


In the First Precinct, grand larcenies also rose from 819 to 1,184 incidents, for a 44.6% increase. The precinct is home to the World Trade Center, Soho, Tribeca and Wall Street.


Grand larcenies have also increased steeply in the Fifth Precinct — which covers Chinatown and the Bowery — where the crime has risen from 408 to 613 incidents, or 50.2%.


“One of my employees got punched in the face, and our employees are scared, as they should be.”
Jim Giddon

In the 13th Precinct, where the store Giddon owns was robbed, grand larceny jumped 25.4 percent, or to 998 incidents from 796.


In two heists days apart, the same robbery crew “mostly grabbed outerwear, more expensive winter coats,” he said.


“One of my employees got punched in the face, and our employees are scared, as they should be,” Giddon said.


He said he decided to begin locking the 18th Street entrance to the store and put security at the front entrance during business hours, which he’s sure has cost him business as customers tug on the door handle and walk away.

In the First Precinct, grand larcenies also rose from 819 to 1,184 incidents.At NuFrame Gallery, an unidentified individual removed a framed picture from the wall. DCPI
“It’s sad for the city that businesses like us have to lock our doors and you have to ring to enter,” the shop owner said. “It’s a sad state of affairs.”


Giddon serves on a task force that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg created to examine the problem of retail thefts.


Bragg has been a major proponent of the state’s bail reform laws, which bar judges from setting bail for most crimes, a situation that critics say leads to criminals being dumped back on the streets to commit more illegal acts.





“The recidivists are making it difficult for everybody,” Giddon said.


“The politicians who hurried and created a bail law, which was well-intentioned, need to really go back to school and figure out how to make it more reasonable.”


Additional reporting by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
 

Two injured in overnight mayhem across NYC​



By
Dean Balsamini


December 24, 2022 9:48am
Updated





One man was shot in the leg and another was critically hurt in a bar fight in separate incidents in Manhattan overnight, police said.
One man was shot in the leg and another was critically hurt in a bar fight in separate incidents in Manhattan overnight, police said. Seth Gottfried


One man was shot in the leg and another was critically hurt in a bar fight in separate incidents in Manhattan overnight, police said.
The shooting victim, 39, was struck in the right leg on 10th Avenue and West 207th Street at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition and police are looking for five suspects who ran northbound on 10th Avenue following the shooting, authorities said. There are no arrests.
At around 3:45 a.m., a 61-year-old man was punched in the head following a dispute inside Billymark's West bar on 9th Avenue and West 29th Street in Chelsea, the NYPD said.At around 3:45 a.m., a 61-year-old man was punched in the head following a dispute inside Billymark’s West bar on 9th Avenue and West 29th Street in Chelsea, the NYPD said.Seth Gottfried



At around 3:45 a.m., a 61-year-old man was punched in the head following a dispute inside Billy Mark’s West bar on 9th Avenue and West 29th Street in Chelsea, the NYPD said.


The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical but stable condition, a department spokesman said. There was no word on what fueled the fight.
 

42-year-old man fatally shot in fight outside NYC club, cops say​



By
Amanda Woods


December 23, 2022 10:51am
Updated











A 42-year-old man was gunned down during a fight outside a Bronx club late Thursday, cops said.
Jeffrey Pierre was squabbling with another man outside the Last Stop Bar & Grill on White Plains Road near East 240th Street in Wakefield just before midnight when a third person who wasn’t involved in the clash opened fire at him, authorities said.
Cops responding to a 911 call found Pierre with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, police said.
He was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
No arrests have been made.
Police said Friday morning that they did not know what the fight was over.
An NYPD cruiser at the scene where Jeffrey Pierre was gunned down on White Plains Road near East 240th Street.Jeffrey Pierre, 42, was fatally shot multiple times in the torso during a fight outside the Last Stop Bar & Grill.Christopher Sadowski
At least two other people were hurt by gunfire in the city overnight, cops said.
A man was blasted in the arm on Lincoln Avenue near Sutter Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, just before 7 p.m., cops said.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
Three men wearing all black fled the scene, cops said.
The scene where Jason Pierre, 42, was fatally shot outside the Last Stop Bar & Grill on White Plains Road near East 240th Street.A third person who wasn’t involved in the fight allegedly shot Pierre multiple times in the torso.Citizen
In East Harlem in Manhattan, another man was shot in the chest on Lexington Avenue near East 112th Street just before 6:30 p.m., cops said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The motive was not known in either incident.
 


Two teens shot in separate NYC incidents in broad daylight: NYPD​



By
Larry Celona and

Tina Moore


December 22, 2022 6:04pm
Updated










Two teenagers were shot in separate broad-daylight bursts of gun violence in Harlem and Brooklyn on Thursday, cops said.
A 14-year-old boy was shot in the right leg at noon while standing in front of the Transfiguration Lutheran Church on 126th Street near Lenox Boulevard, cops said.
Two suspects fled in an unknown direction after the shooting. It wasn’t immediately known if the teen was targeted, cops said. One shell casing was recovered on the scene.
Cops investigate Harlem shooting.Cops tape off area near the scene to look for evidence in Harlem shooting.Citizen Cops investigate near a teen’s shooting in Harlem around noon Thursday.Citizen
About an hour later, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest and leg on Sutter Avenue near Crescent Street in East New York by a gunman described as wearing all black, cops said.
The teen was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.
Scene near Harlem shooting.The scene near a Harlem shooting where the teen was shot in the leg.Citizen



Two shell casings were recovered at the scene, cops said.
 

Three NYC stabbings leave one dead, two injured as 2023 begins​



By
Tina Moore


January 1, 2023 9:04am
Updated





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Three overnight stabbings in the Bronx and Manhattan left one person dead and two injured, police cops said. Seth Gottfried




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Three overnight stabbings in the Bronx and Manhattan left one person dead and a man and woman injured, cops said.
A 63-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest and a 38-year-old woman was stabbed in the torso in front of 1335 College Avenue in the Bronx at around 4 a.m., cops said.
Both took private transportation to Bronx Lebanon Hospital where the man was pronounced dead, cops said. The woman was in stable condition.
The “victims were involved in a dispute with an unknown individual who stabbed them,” a police spokeswoman said. There was no known motive, she said.

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Meanwhile, a man was stabbed in the stomach at East 21st Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron District at around 2:30 a.m., police said.




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Police at the scene were a person was stabbed on January 1, 2023.
A 38-year-old woman was stabbed in the torso in front of 1335 College Avenue in the Bronx at around 4 a.m., according to police. Seth Gottfried

Police at the scene were a person was stabbed on January 1, 2023.
A 63-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest early in the morning in the Bronx. Seth Gottfried

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Police at the scene were a person was stabbed on January 1, 2023.
A man was rushed to a hospital after being stabbed in the stomach in Manhattan’s Flatiron District at around 2:30 a.m., police said. Seth Gottfried





He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. The suspect, who was wearing a yellow jacket and gray jeans, fled on 21st Street on foot, cops said. There was no known motive.
 



Fatal slashings and stabbings in NYC are up 37%​



By
Dean Balsamini


December 17, 2022 10:30am
Updated





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Christopher Sadowski


Fatal stabbings and slashings are up an alarming 37% in the Big Apple this year.
The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, according to department stats obtained by The Post.
Stabbings and slashings overall are up 10% in 2022, with 4,344 compared to 3,954 last year, the stats show.
Within a span of 10 days starting Sept. 30, three people were fatally stabbed in the city transit system.Within a span of 10 days starting Sept. 30, three people were fatally stabbed in the city transit system.Christopher Sadowski
The disturbing data, which cover Jan. 1 to Dec. 11, come as NYC was racking up 16% fewer shootings, which dropped from 1,757 to 1,474 so far this year.
“Not everybody can buy a gun, so what’s the next best thing everyone has access to? A knife,” observed Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective who is now an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“There isn’t real consequences if you get arrested with a knife; it’s probably just a misdemeanor and you’re going to be given a smack on the wrist,” he added.
Saniyah Lawrence, 16, was fatally stabbed in the neck in a Manhattan apartment.Earlier this month, 16-year-old Saniyah Lawrence was fatally stabbed in the neck in a Manhattan apartment.Matthew McDermott
The grim stats do not include the latest incident: On Friday night, a 27-year-old woman was stabbed to death at a homeless shelter in Manhattan, police said.
The victim was attacked by a 42-year-old woman just before 10 p.m. inside of the Project Renewal New Providence Women’s Shelter on East 45th Street near 3rd Avenue in Midtown, according to the NYPD.
Officers found the victim in the 6th floor hallway with stab wounds to the head, shoulder and thigh, cops said. She was transported by EMS to Bellevue Hospital where she was pronounced dead about a half hour later, police said. The killer ran out of the shelter and remains at large.
Last month, three women in Queens were found stabbed to death in their Springfield Gardens apartment. Three women in Queens were found stabbed to death in their Springfield Gardens apartment last month.hyacinth.johnson.98/Facebook
Just last weekend, a 16-year-old girl was fatally stabbed in the neck in a Manhattan apartment after allegedly getting into a fight with her boyfriend.
Zyaire Crumbley, the 18-year-old accused of stabbing Saniyah Lawrence inside their Harlem dwelling, turned himself in to authorities a day after the Dec. 11 killing, police said. The teen suspect — who has six prior robbery arrests — was charged with murder.
Last month, three women in Queens were found stabbed to death in their Springfield Gardens apartment.
The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, department data show.The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, according to department stats obtained by The Post.Christopher Sadowski
Within a span of 10 days starting Sept. 30, three people were fatally stabbed in the city transit system.
“You have the knife on your person, you encounter a confrontation and there’s no cooling off period,” Alcazar said. “How many times do you walk through the turnstile and there’s an EDP standing there staring directly at you, like he’s in a trance. You don’t know if that guy has a knife or a weapon.”
Alcazar added that under bail reform, where DAs in New York are not prosecuting low-level weapon cases, there’s a “comfortability” factor for criminals. “Everyone’s packing because everyone feels they have to protect themselves with the surge in crime in New York City. Bad guys have to protect themselves from other bad guys.”


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The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, according to department stats obtained by The Post.
The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, according to department stats obtained by The Post. Christopher Sadowski

The rise in stabbings comes amid a 24% surge in in major crime citywide.
The rise in stabbings comes amid a 24% surge in in major crime citywide. Christopher Sadowski



“Not everybody can buy a gun, so what’s the next best thing everyone has access to? A knife,” observed Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective who is now an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“Not everybody can buy a gun, so what’s the next best thing everyone has access to? A knife,” observed Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective who is now an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Christopher Sadowski





The rise in stabbings comes amid a 24% surge in in major crime citywide.


The good news? Arrests in stabbings and slashing are up 42% this year ( 2,139) compared to the same span last year (1,511), the NYPD said.
 

Six hurt in overnight NYC mayhem, cops say​



By
Dean Balsamini


December 17, 2022 10:15am
Updated







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Police at the scene of a shooting in the Bronx on December 17, 2022.
Police investigate the scene of a shooting in the Bronx on December 17, 2022. Seth Gottfried

The shooting victim was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition.
The shooting victim was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. Seth Gottfried



According to police, the suspects fled the scene in two separate vehicles.
According to police, the suspects fled the scene in two separate vehicles. Seth Gottfried





Four people were shot and two others stabbed across the city overnight, police said.
In the latest shooting incident, a man was shot in the stomach in Corona, Queens at around 4:50 a.m. Saturday on 44th Avenue and 111th Street, cops said. Two unidentified suspects ran off. The victim, whose age was not provided, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.
Earlier a 30-year-old man in The Bronx was shot in the left leg on West Fordham Road and the Major Deegan at 4:30 a.m., police said. The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition, cops said. The suspects sped off in two separate vehicles, authorities said. There are no arrests.


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NYPD at the scene of a stabbing in the Bronx on December 17, 2022. Seth Gottfried

Police arresting suspects at the scene of a stabbing in East Harlem on December 17, 2022.
Suspects under arrest at the Bronx stabbing. Seth Gottfried





On Friday at around 9 p.m., a 42-year-old man was shot in the right hand and a woman was grazed in the right thigh on East 118th Street in East Harlem by a shooter wearing “all-green clothing,” the NYPD said. The man was taken to Harlem Hospital and the woman declined medical attention, cops said.


Two people were reportedly stabbed in the Bronx early Saturday, according to first responders. An NYPD spokesman could not immediately provide information regading the incident.
 


Suspect busted in NYC slashing spree on bloody night that left six injured​



By
Larry Celona and

Amanda Woods


January 3, 2023 3:10pm
Updated





A slasher went on a spree that left three people injured near the Port Authority Bus Terminal — during a bloody night that separately saw two other knife attacks in Manhattan and Brooklyn, police said Tuesday.
Luis D Rosas, 41, was arrested Tuesday morning at the bus terminal — where he had also been nabbed just days ago for menacing someone in a bathroom, according to the Port Authority Police Department and police sources.

The alleged serial slasher attacked the first victim, a 41-year-old man, around 9:15 p.m. Monday after asking him for a cigarette on Eighth Avenue near West 39th Street, authorities and police sources said. The victim was slashed on the left side of his face, and taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Sources said the same attacker is suspected of then slashing someone at midnight at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue — although that victim did not file a criminal complaint.


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The most recent unprovoked attack happened just after 3 a.m. as a 50-year-old man left the 42nd Street-Port Authority subway station at West 40th Street and Eighth Avenue, cops said.
Police officers at the subway station at 40th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, where a man was slashed. Robert Mecea

The victim is walked to an ambulance after the slashing.
The victim was walked to an ambulance after the slashing. Robert Mecea

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Police at the scene
He was taken to Bellevue in stable condition. Robert Mecea



According to police, a 41-year-old man was slashed in the face at West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue around 12:20 a.m., but it is not immediately clear whether those incidents are one in the same. Three male suspects in that incident fled in a yellow cab, police said. The motive was unknown.


Then just after 3 a.m., the slasher randomly targeted a 50-year-old man as he left the 42nd Street-Port Authority subway station at West 40th Street and Eighth Avenue, according to cops and police sources.


The victim was on the stairs when the stranger slashed him without warning and fled, authorities said. He was taken to an unspecified hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.


Port Authority cops spotted the suspect later Tuesday morning inside the bus terminal and recognized him from his previous arrest there, according to sources.


“PAPD units apprehended a suspect this morning who was wanted for 3 slashings within the Time Square area,” a department spokeswoman said in a statement. “The suspect was spotted in the Port Authority Bus Terminal and after a foot pursuit, he was taken into PAPD custody.”


She added: “A PAPD officer sustained minor injuries during the scuffle.”

Bloody papertowels and belongings are seen on the floor in the subway station at 40th St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.Bloody paper towels and belongings in the subway station at 40th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan after a slashing on Jan. 3, 2023.Robert Mecea
In an unrelated attack around 12:30 a.m. at West 46th Street and Eighth Avenue near Times Square, a 32-year-old man was slashed in the stomach and arm, and a 36-year-old man also knifed on his arm, cops said.





Both men were taken to Bellevue and are expected to survive, authorities said.


Two suspects, described as males in their 30s – one wearing a red shirt and the other in a white shirt :mad: – fled north on Eighth Avenue.


In Brooklyn, a 27-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was slashed on the neck around 3:30 a.m. at the corner of Moore Street and Humboldt Avenue, on the grounds of NYCHA’s John F. Hylan Houses, authorities said.


He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center in critical condition, cops said.


The attacker is believed to be a stranger to the victim, but the motive is unclear, police said.


Cops say the suspect had a dark complexion and wore all black.
 


Suspect busted in NYC slashing spree on bloody night that left six injured​



By
Larry Celona and

Amanda Woods


January 3, 2023 3:10pm
Updated





A slasher went on a spree that left three people injured near the Port Authority Bus Terminal — during a bloody night that separately saw two other knife attacks in Manhattan and Brooklyn, police said Tuesday.
Luis D Rosas, 41, was arrested Tuesday morning at the bus terminal — where he had also been nabbed just days ago for menacing someone in a bathroom, according to the Port Authority Police Department and police sources.

The alleged serial slasher attacked the first victim, a 41-year-old man, around 9:15 p.m. Monday after asking him for a cigarette on Eighth Avenue near West 39th Street, authorities and police sources said. The victim was slashed on the left side of his face, and taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Sources said the same attacker is suspected of then slashing someone at midnight at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue — although that victim did not file a criminal complaint.


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The most recent unprovoked attack happened just after 3 a.m. as a 50-year-old man left the 42nd Street-Port Authority subway station at West 40th Street and Eighth Avenue, cops said.
Police officers at the subway station at 40th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, where a man was slashed. Robert Mecea

The victim is walked to an ambulance after the slashing.
The victim was walked to an ambulance after the slashing. Robert Mecea

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Police at the scene
He was taken to Bellevue in stable condition. Robert Mecea



According to police, a 41-year-old man was slashed in the face at West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue around 12:20 a.m., but it is not immediately clear whether those incidents are one in the same. Three male suspects in that incident fled in a yellow cab, police said. The motive was unknown.


Then just after 3 a.m., the slasher randomly targeted a 50-year-old man as he left the 42nd Street-Port Authority subway station at West 40th Street and Eighth Avenue, according to cops and police sources.


The victim was on the stairs when the stranger slashed him without warning and fled, authorities said. He was taken to an unspecified hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.


Port Authority cops spotted the suspect later Tuesday morning inside the bus terminal and recognized him from his previous arrest there, according to sources.


“PAPD units apprehended a suspect this morning who was wanted for 3 slashings within the Time Square area,” a department spokeswoman said in a statement. “The suspect was spotted in the Port Authority Bus Terminal and after a foot pursuit, he was taken into PAPD custody.”


She added: “A PAPD officer sustained minor injuries during the scuffle.”

Bloody papertowels and belongings are seen on the floor in the subway station at 40th St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.Bloody paper towels and belongings in the subway station at 40th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan after a slashing on Jan. 3, 2023.Robert Mecea
In an unrelated attack around 12:30 a.m. at West 46th Street and Eighth Avenue near Times Square, a 32-year-old man was slashed in the stomach and arm, and a 36-year-old man also knifed on his arm, cops said.





Both men were taken to Bellevue and are expected to survive, authorities said.


Two suspects, described as males in their 30s – one wearing a red shirt and the other in a white shirt :mad: – fled north on Eighth Avenue.


In Brooklyn, a 27-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was slashed on the neck around 3:30 a.m. at the corner of Moore Street and Humboldt Avenue, on the grounds of NYCHA’s John F. Hylan Houses, authorities said.


He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center in critical condition, cops said.


The attacker is believed to be a stranger to the victim, but the motive is unclear, police said.


Cops say the suspect had a dark complexion and wore all black.
 

Just 327 suspected crooks made up 30% of NYC’s 22K shoplifting arrests in 2022: NYPD​



By
Tina Moore,

Craig McCarthy and

Bruce Golding


January 5, 2023 7:27pm
Updated











Just 327 unrepentant crooks accounted for 30% of the Big Apple’s 22,000 shoplifting arrests last year, the NYPD said Thursday.
The staggering statistics mean the alleged recidivists got busted a total of about 6,600 times — for an average of more than 20 times each.
But even more alarming is where most of them are now — which is right back on the streets, NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri said during a briefing on 2022’s CompStat numbers.
Lipetri said the city’s ongoing shoplifting crisis sparked about 63,000 complaints from merchants.
“We arrested 327 people, 327 people that account for 30% of all the arrests,” he said. “All the arrests — 327 people are 30% of our 22,000.”
Lipetri also said that “about half” of the group were “convicted felons.”
This is a record number that the city has recorded. Just 327 unrepentant crooks accounted for 30% of the Big Apple’s 22,000 shoplifting arrests last year.William Farrington
“And guess what? Two hundred thirty-five of them — so 235 out of 327 — are walking around the streets of New York right now,” he said. “Just doing what? Unfortunately, making stores close or making families wait 15 minutes 20 minutes to get something unlocked — because there’s not a lot of consequences.”
New York’s controversial, 2019 bail reform law generally prohibits judges from setting bail in cases involving non-violent felonies and misdemeanors such as shoplifting.
Mayor Eric Adams, who’s been calling on state lawmakers to roll back bail reform, said Thursday that he planned to “return to Albany this year to talk about things like, how do we look at recidivism?”
Lipetri also said that about half of the group were convicted felons.The alleged recidivists got busted a total of about 6,600 times — for an average of more than 20 times each.Helayne Seidman
The Post has exclusively exposed several serial shoplifters, including self-proclaimed “professional booster” Michelle McKelley, “Teflon con” Charles Wold and “Man of Steal” Isaac Rodriguez — whose story led then-NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea to tweet: “Insanity. No other way to describe the resulting crime that has flowed from disastrous bail reform law.”
Also during Thursday’s briefing at NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan, Chief of Patrol John Chell said the department’s low-profile Neighborhood Safety Teams seized 431 guns during 411 incidents that led to 501 arrests.
“One out of every four encounters resulted in a firearm being removed from the street,” Chell said.
The NYPD saw a decline in shootings and murders. The overall rate of major crimes increased by 22.4%, with double-digit spikes in five of the seven categories.Paul Martinka
Adams called the work of the NSTs — which he established after the NYPD’s controversial, undercover Anti-Crime Units were disbanded under former Mayor Bill de Blasio — “a huge win for us.”
“And those 500 guns mean 500 people are less likely to be shot,” he said.
The NYPD’s year-end CompStat report showed major declines in murders and shootings, which fell 11.3% and 17.2%, respectively, compared to 2021.
But the overall rate of major crimes increased by 22.4%, with double-digit spikes in five of the seven categories.



Auto thefts skyrocketed 32.2%, followed by robberies and grand larcenies, which surged 25.5% and 25.2%.


Burglaries rose 22.1%, while felony assaults increased by 12.9% and rapes were up 7.7%, according to the NYPD.
 



Teen violence spiraling out of control in NYC, Eric Adams and NYPD warn​



By
Tina Moore,

Craig McCarthy and

Bruce Golding


January 5, 2023 6:56pm
Updated














Out-of-control teens are committing a growing portion of the Big Apple’s robberies, the NYPD revealed on Thursday — as Mayor Eric Adams warned that many city kids were headed toward a “career in violence.”
During a briefing on last year’s CompStat numbers, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri said that 20% of robbery arrests during the fourth quarter involved “individuals under the age of 18,” compared to 17% for the entire year.
“Under 18, robbing New Yorkers. The statistics are out there,” he said ruefully.
Even worse, Lipetri said, “The trends continue on, unfortunately, with 10% of all shooting victims — 10% of all shooting victims in New York City — are under the age of 18.
“Every other age category is down when you track it between 10 and 17, and 18 and 24, and so,” he added during the presentation at NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
This is compared to 17% for the entire year.Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri said that 20% of robbery arrests during the fourth quarter involved minors.
Youngsters made up about 17% of the 9,942 robbery arrests last year, compared to 13% of those in 2021, according to NYPD data. In 2020, the statistics show minors accounted for about 19% of robbery busts.
That number was higher in pre-pandemic years, with those under 18 accounting for 27% of robbery arrests in 2019 and 23% of those in 2018, according to the data.




The disturbing statistics came despite what the mayor described as a turnaround from when he took office on Jan. 1, 2022, when “crime was on a trend increasing upward.”
“We’re leaving 2022 with crime…trending downward,” Adams said.
Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said there was an overall decrease in major crimes during the fourth quarter, as well as during “the current seven and 28 days.”
“These decreases are the direct result of a yearslong strategy,” she said. “With this momentum, going forward we are confident the coming year. We expect to see significant progress in the continuance of the crime trends that we’re seeing.”
During a Q&A session after the briefing, Adams repeated his Wednesday reaction to the viral video of a since-suspended cop clobbering a 14-year-old girl during a melee near a Staten Island school, saying, “I was horrified to see the way a well-trained officer would respond to an incident like that.”
There was also a crime decrease during the current seven and 28 days.Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said there was an overall decrease in major crimes during the fourth quarter.Paul Martinka
“But I was also horrified to learn that a young girl in that school was being jumped by two other students,” he said.
“The violence that’s coming from our young people,” Adams continued. “When you see some of these actions, when you see the total disregard for human life, it is really challenging to just know the impact of what the victims are going through and how these young people are destroying their lives.”
Adams added: “I believe that officer was wrong and I commend the police commissioner and the Internal Affairs Bureau for taking swift action.
“But let’s peel that back. You know, that little baby was going to school and she was being jumped. She was being jumped!” he said. “We can’t normalize this. We can’t continue to ignore the violence that is really engulfing our young people…If we don’t intervene, they are on a pathway of a career in violence and we have to stop it.”
In 2020, the statistics show minors accounted for about 19% of robbery busts.Youngsters made up about 17% of the 9,942 robbery arrests last year, compared to 13% of those in 2021.
Adams said he planned to visit the Edwin Markham Middle School, near where the incident took place around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday.
“I’m calling all of my electeds in that community. I’m calling my religious leaders in that community. Let’s get over to that school and find out what’s going on,” he said.
The cop involved in the incident — identified by sources as Nicholas Scalzo, a 14-year veteran — declined to comment when The Post spotted him outside his Staten Island home on Thursday.
But during the Q&A at One Police Plaza, Sewell said, “The officers in that incident were responding to a violent fight among several people at that location.



“During the time when an officer was trying to take police action and apprehend one of the people for that fight, someone interfered in that apprehension and actually struck our officer,” she said.


Sewell added that “I don’t think anyone, or very few people, who saw that video were not concerned” and pledged a “thorough investigation” in which Scalzo “gets his due process.”
 

Two dead, four hurt in overnight NYC mayhem, cops say​



By
Dean Balsamini


January 7, 2023 10:25am
Updated










One man was shot dead in his Brooklyn apartment and another was fatally wounded during a double stabbing in the Bronx, police said.
Four others were hurt in a spate of mayhem across the city overnight, cops said Saturday.
In the Bronx, police found Tyrone Quick, 45, fatally stabbed in the chest inside 1212 University Ave., while a woman, 39, had been slashed in the arm. Quick was later pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital, where the woman was listed in stable condition.
Two people were killed and four were injured in a spate of overnight chaos.Two people were killed and four were injured in a spate of overnight chaos.Seth Gottfried for NY Post Police on the scene of a stabbing in Times Square.Police investigate the scene of a stabbing in Times Square.Christopher Sadowski for NY Post
A third-floor resident, Jose Ortiz, 66, was quickly taken into custody and charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said. Quick lived nearby, authorities said.
The stabbing was “still under investigation,” police said.
In the latest bloodshed, a 35-year-old man was stabbed twice in the back on Broadway and West 43rd Street at 2:15 a.m. Saturday. The victim was ambushed by three suspects, one sporting dreadlocks, one wearing a beige hat and another clad in a white jacket, the NYPD said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. There are no arrests.
Cops responding to  possible shots-fired at around 2:20 p.m..Cops found Jermaine Desaussure after responding to “possible shots-fired” at around 2:20 p.m.Peter Gerber
An hour earlier in the Concourse section of the Bronx, a 19-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the left foot on Findlay Avenue, near East 169th Street, police said. The teen was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
Shortly before 11 p.m. Friday, a 24-year-old man was shot once in the stomach outside the city Housing Authority’s Glenwood Houses on East 56th and Glenwood Road in Flatlands, Brooklyn, police said. The dark-clothing clad assailant remains at large, cops said.
On Friday afternoon a 41-year-old man was found shot dead in his East Flatbush apartment, authorities said. Cops responding to a “possible shots-fired” call at around 2:20 p.m., found Jermaine Desaussure shot in the chest inside a third-floor apartment at 94 Rockaway Parkway, near Rutland Road, police said. Desaussure was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. There are no arrests.
 

Attacks on NYC subway and bus workers hit new high in 2022​



By
David Meyer


January 9, 2023 7:30pm
Updated









Assaults on subway and bus workers last year hit the highest levels since at least 2018 — and spiked nearly 29% compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, new MTA data shows.
At least 121 attacks were reported through Nov. 30, 2022, marking a steep jump from the 94 tallied for all of 2019, according to the recent figures.
And the violence didn’t let up during the last four weeks of the year — with another 15 assaults against transit workers recorded from Dec. 5, 2022, through Jan. 2, according to the data, first reported by NY1.
Cases of harassment against workers — including verbal harassment and spitting attacks — also rose in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but dropped last year compared to 2021, an MTA spokesman said.
“Assaults on transit workers are unacceptable,” spokesman Sean Butler said in a statement. “The MTA is committed to keeping riders and the transit workers that keep the city moving safe while delivering service when and where New Yorkers depend on it.”
An NYC subwayRiders will be more vulnerable to violence if the MTA goes through with planned service rollbacks, the union said.Getty Images
In December, the victims included a train dispatcher who suffered serious head injuries when an assailant allegedly broke into his office at a Manhattan subway station and beat him with a hammer, as well as a Q17 bus operator in Queens who had a fare-beater allegedly pull a gun on him and tell him, “I should kill you.”
”The more riders get frustrated and angry, the bigger the target becomes on our backs. We don’t make the decisions, but some riders see the MTA uniform and lash out at us, “ said TWU Local 100 President Richard Davis, who represents the bulk of the subway and bus workforce.
Transit workers have not faced the surge in violence alone — overall felonies underground were up this year compared to last, and the rate of crimes per rider is up compared to before the pandemic.
Riders will be more vulnerable to violence if the MTA goes through service rollbacks planned for Mondays and Fridays, Davis said.
MTA leaders pushed for legislation last year to give judges more power to ban people who attack transit workers and other riders, but only one judge has used the authority since the legislation passed — on a case in Suffolk County stemming from an incident on the Long Island Railroad.
Lisa Daglian, of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, called for higher penalties for people who assault or harass transit workers.



“There’s just a lack of civility towards people who kept New York moving, who keep New York moving — and who we really owe a debt of gratitude to. It’s not appropriate, it’s not right, it’s not fair, it’s not good and it’s got to stop,” Daglian said.


“The penalties need to be higher for assaulting transit workers. there needs to be more of an ability to do the things the MTA has asked for, to ban people from the system for provable actions.
 


Park Slope shop owners terrorized by uptick in ‘brazen’ crimes​



By
Jack Morphet,

Craig McCarthy and

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


January 10, 2023 6:36pm
Updated













Sunday’s $2 million smash-and-grab heist at a Park Slope jewelry store is just the latest audacious attack in the once-quiet, upscale Brooklyn enclave, The Post has learned.
Two other shops have been targeted by crooks in recent months, including Glitz Jewelers on 7th Avenue in August and an AT&T outlet — next to Facets Jewelry, which was ransacked this past weekend — on New Year’s Day.
“The criminals are brazen,” said Eddie Khanimov, owner of Glitz Jewelers, where sledgehammer-wielding robbers made off with a third of his store’s inventory — $200,000 in gold and diamonds — in less than 10 minutes on Aug. 17. “They don’t care. It’s like the wild, wild west. They are in and out in five minutes.”
At the AT&T store, thieves, also armed with sledgehammers, tried but failed to get into the safe — the second time the store was hit in less than a month.
Park Slope’s uptick in crime is the worst Khanimov has seen “since the ’80s,” he said — and he blames the state’s controversial bail laws.
Mursalin Rasool, salesman at Park Slope AT&T store.Mursalin Rasool, a salesman at an AT&T outlet in Park Slope, said sledgehammer-wielding thieves tried to smash their way in twice in less than a month.
“The people doing these crimes are repeat offenders, who the courts keep letting out. … The laws have to be changed,” he said. “Repeat offenders should go to jail and stay in jail. They have to stop letting them out.”
Under the controversial 2019 state criminal justice reforms, judges are prohibited from setting bail on most crimes — including nearly all non-violent larcenies.
Critics had long complained that the statute creates a revolving door for repeat offenders — releasing them to the streets to commit more crimes, including serial thieves.
AT&T smash and grab attemptSuveillance footage from the AT&T store shows thieves walking toward the safe in the back.

A downward Slope​

NYPD statistics reviewed by The Post show that shoplifting and retail thefts in Park Slope jumped more than 55% in the 78th Precinct — which patrols Park Slope — through September compared to the same nine-month time span in 2021.
Between January 2022 and September 2022, cops reported 736 petit and grand larceny reports from neighborhood retailers — up from 473 over the same period in 2021.
By stark contrast, between January and September in 2020, Brooklyn cops reported 312 larcenies from Park Slope stores during the nine-month span.
And the trend seems to be continuing into the new year.
Through Sunday, the 78th Precinct had handled 21 grand larceny complaints.
While the tally includes all thefts of more than $1,000, not just from retailers, it is more the four times higher than the first week of last year when five were reported.
Glitz Jewelers in Park Slope. Thieves smashed their way into Glitz Jewelers in Park Slope in August and made off with $200,000 in merchandise, store owner Eddie Khanimov told The Post Tuesday.
“The first time they broke through the glass door with a sledgehammer and ran to the back office,” AT&T salesman Mursalin Rasool said of the two late-night incidents there.
“I don’t know if they knew that’s where the safe was,” he said. “They tried to see what they could get their hands on but once they saw the safe was locked and they couldn’t anything, they ran out … They were only in here for 30 seconds.”
Nearly 83% of the incidents in Park Slope consisted of stolen property worth less than $1,000, creating a headache for smaller neighborhood businesses as well.
And it’s not just big-ticket items walking out the doors of local retailers.
AT&T store in Park Slope.Thieves wielding sledgehammers tried to smash their way into a Park Slope AT&T outlet twice in less than a month, part of a spike in local retail thefts.
While grand larceny reports — thefts of valuables worth $1,000 or more — make up about 15% of retail thefts, the bulk of the 2022 crimes plaguing Park Slope through September were smaller heists classified as petit larceny.
“Kids steal from me every day,” said Majeed Arbahri, owner of Green Olives Deli. “The police say they can’t do anything and told me just to put their pictures in the window. So, I’ve turned one of the TVs that showed the menu into ‘Thieves of the Week.’
“I’ve told them if they don’t have any money I will make them a sandwich for free,” Arbahri said. “But they don’t accept and keep stealing.”



The latest high-profile theft came Sunday at Facets Jewelers when brazen thieves stormed in around 5 p.m. with shoppers still in the store and smashed several display cases with hammers — fleeing with up to $2 million in diamond rings after just 38 seconds.


“This was a very safe neighborhood, and I’m not sure I feel the same way,” Irina Sulay, owner of Facets Jewelry, told The Post. “I’m so frightened. I’m not even opening the door to my loyal clients. I even recognize who they are, and I won’t let them in.


“It feels like we’re alone,” she said.
 

Overnight NYC shootings leave one dead, two injured, cops say​



By
Larry Celona and

Amanda Woods


January 11, 2023 11:22am
Updated










Three people were shot across the Big Apple late Tuesday — including one man who was killed in Brooklyn, authorities said.
Philson Andrews, 36, was blasted multiple times in the torso and right arm at East 56th Street and Church Avenue in East Flatbush around 9:30 p.m. by a man who then fled, cops said.
Andrews was rushed to the Kings County Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.
A taped-off crime scene with cones marking shell casings on the ground.One 36-year-old man was killed and two other men were hurt in the overnight gunplay.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
The motive for the shooting was unclear Wednesday morning.
Cops described Andrews as “known to the department,” but he hasn’t been arrested in more than 15 years.
A 31-year-old man was then struck in the head on Lexington Avenue near East 109th Street, on the grounds of the Governor DeWitt Clinton Houses in East Harlem around 10 p.m., cops said. At least five shots were fired, police sources said.
Cops stand outside a seafood restaurant at East 56th Street and Church Avenue.Philston Andrews, 36, was gunned down at East 56th Street and Church Avenue in East Flatbush around 9:30 p.m.Wayne Carrington
The victim went by private means to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The motive was not immediately known. The victim is also “known to the department,” cops said.
About an hour earlier, a 28-year-old man was shot in the right leg at Beach 36th Street and Rockaway Freeway, cops said.
Cops survey the scene where a man was shot on Lexington Avenue near East 109th Street.A 31-year-old man was shot in the head on Lexington Avenue near East 109th Street around 10 p.m., cops said. William C. Lopez/NYPOST
He walked into St. John’s Episcopal Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The circumstances leading to that shooting are also unclear.
No arrests have been made in any of the incidents.
 

NYC weekend violence leaves 4 wounded, one in possible bias attack: NYPD​



By
Larry Celona and

Tina Moore


January 15, 2023 8:57am
Updated





A man was stabbed on an N subway in Brooklyn.
A man was stabbed on an N subway in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka






A young man was knifed on a NYC subway train by an attacker who made an apparent anti-white comment in a spate of stabbings and a shooting in the Big Apple, cops said Sunday.
The 24-year-old victim boarded a southbound N subway with three friends at Chambers Street in lower Manhattan around 10 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
While on the train, a man in another group said “Oh, white people,” a police spokeswoman said. The men in the group were black and Hispanic, cops said.
A fight broke out when one of the victim’s friends asked the man what he meant by the comment, cops said.
One of the males then displayed a knife and stabbed the victim in the right hip, police said. The other two men punched him in the face.
The victim was on an N train in Brooklyn.The man was stabbed and punched on a Brooklyn subway train.Paul Martinka
The victim, whose identity wasn’t released, was taken to Methodist Hospital in stable condition.
When the train reached the Pacific Street Station, a 17-, 18- and 24-year-old were taken into custody with charges pending, cops said.
In another bloody incident, a 58-year-old man was stabbed in the chest with a large kitchen knife after a verbal dispute at 38-33 29th Street in Astoria, Queens, around 8 p.m., cops said.
Man stabbed in Queens.A 58-year-old was stabbed with a large kitchen knife in Astoria. Christopher Sadowski
He was taken to New York-Presbyterian in stable condition.
There were no immediate arrests, cops said.
Just before midnight in Manhattan, a 33-year-old man was found with a stab wound to his back at West 125th Street and Morningside Avenue in Harlem, cops said.
He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
Victim's clothes on street.A man was stabbed on Queens corner by a group of four who fled.Christopher Sadowski Cops investigating stabbing in Harlem.A man was stabbed in the back in Harlem.Christopher Sadowski
Police were looking for video and a weapon. Four men were being sought.
A shooting left a 28-year-old man wounded in the right leg in Harlem after gunfire broke out in the Frederick Douglass Houses around 6 p.m. for unknown reasons, cops said.



The victim was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition.
 

NYC weekend violence leaves 7 wounded, one in possible bias attack: NYPD​



By
Larry Celona,

Tina Moore and

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


January 15, 2023 8:57am
Updated





A man was stabbed on an N subway in Brooklyn.
A man was stabbed on an N subway in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka






A young man was knifed on a Lower Manhattan subway train by an attacker who made an apparent anti-white comment — one of at least seven violent-crime victims in the Big Apple over the weekend, cops say.
The 24-year-old victim boarded a southbound N subway with three friends at Chambers Street around 10 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
While on the train, a man in another group said “Oh, white people,” a police spokeswoman said. The men in the group were black and Hispanic, cops said.
A fight broke out when one of the victim’s friends asked the man what he meant by the comment, cops said.
One of the men displayed a knife and stabbed the victim in the right hip, police said. The other two men punched him in the face.
The victim, whose identity wasn’t released, was taken to Methodist Hospital in stable condition.
The victim was on an N train in Brooklyn.The man was stabbed and punched on a Brooklyn subway train.Paul Martinka
When the train reached the Pacific Street Station, a 17-, 18- and 24-year-old were taken into custody with charges pending, cops said.
In another bloody incident, a 58-year-old man was stabbed in the chest with a large kitchen knife during a verbal dispute at 38-33 29th Street in Astoria, Queens, around 8 p.m., cops said.
He was taken to New York-Presbyterian in stable condition.
Man stabbed in Queens.A 58-year-old was stabbed with a large kitchen knife in Astoria. Christopher Sadowski
There were no immediate arrests, cops said.
Just before midnight in Manhattan, a 33-year-old man was found with a stab wound to his back at West 125th Street and Morningside Avenue in Harlem, cops said.
He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
Police were looking for video and a weapon. Four men were being sought in the Manhattan crime.
Victim's clothes on street.A man was stabbed on Queens corner by a group of four who fled.Christopher Sadowski Cops investigating stabbing in Harlem.A man was stabbed in the back in Harlem.Christopher Sadowski
A shooting also left a 28-year-old man wounded in the right leg in Harlem when gunfire broke out in the Frederick Douglass Houses around 6 p.m. for unknown reasons, cops said.
The victim was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition.
The violence continued Sunday when another man was stabbed in the stomach shortly before 1 p.m. at an R train station at Fourth Avenue and 53rd Street in Brooklyn, according to police.



The victim was taken to Lutheran Hospital in unknown condition.


Shortly after 2 pm., a man was shot in the stomach inside an apartment at 375 Pulaski St. and was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.


Around 2:15 p.m. a 26-year-old man was shot in the shoulder in Manhattan.


He was rushed to a nearby hospital and listed in stable condition.
 

Justice ‘reforms’ forcing prosecutors to toss out 69% of NYC criminal cases, alarming new study finds​



By
Zach Williams and

Bruce Golding


January 19, 2023 5:00am
Updated





HANDCUFFS
Suspected criminals are being let loose, even though there is a devastating rise in crimes and a drop in arrests. Getty Images






A controversial new evidence law has led to big surges in the number of cases that prosecutors are being forced to drop across the Big Apple — fueling crime by putting suspected bad guys back on the streets without ever having to face justice, a new study obtained by The Post reveals.
The rate at which cases were dismissed citywide rose from 44% in 2019 — the year new “discovery” rules were adopted by state lawmakers — to 69% by mid-October 2021, the Manhattan Institute finds in the report, set for release Thursday.
For misdemeanor cases, the increase was even more dramatic, jumping from 49% to 82% during the same period, according to official data cited by the conservative think tank.
“The statute, therefore, has correlated with a devastating rise in crime and a drop in arrests,” author and former NYPD analyst Hannah Meyers wrote.
“In New York City, adult felony arrests fell by 14% between 2019 and 2021, while NYC shootings rose by 102% and murders rose by over 51%.”
The study blamed the alarming situation on the “clerical burden” imposed on prosecutors who must “assemble and redact limitless…documents and videos” for defense lawyers as part of the legal process called “discovery.”

When combined with the state’s “speedy trial” laws, Meyers said, assistant district attorneys simply “run out of time to try cases or file motions to extend defendants’ detention.”
The study also found that while prosecutors were busy “chasing paper” to meet discovery deadlines as short as 20 days for defendants in jail, a “staggering” number of defense lawyers didn’t even bother to review the evidence to which they were entitled.
“According to sources with firsthand knowledge of this data, during at least the first year after… implementation, in many jurisdictions defense attorneys were failing to download discovery packages within their 30-day windows in over half of cases,” Meyers wrote.
The discovery law — part of a package that also included bail reform — even allows sleazy defense lawyers to “sabotage” prosecutors by taking advantage of the “speedy-trial window,” Meyers said.
Meyers pointed to a leaked, internal guide prepared by the Legal Aid Society that reportedly noted how the new rules “are especially important in misdemeanor cases.”
“An unscrupulous defense attorney could delay filing motions to suppress evidence until the last possible moment, all while the window before the ADA must dismiss the case keeps closing,” Meyers wrote.
“Defense attorneys can easily take advantage of this new leverage, contributing to the vastly increased dismissal rates, especially on low-level offenses.”
Meanwhile, the discovery law has also “crippled” the justice system by leading to “mass attrition” in DA’s offices statewide, with many of the 30 respondents to an October survey saying that 40% of ADAs in their offices had quit since the discovery law took effect, according to the study.
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District AttorneyManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg puts the blame on the discovery law for allowing criminals back on the streets.Stefan Jeremiah
In addition, what was once a “steady stream of qualified applicants” has been reportedly reduced to “months with no applicants at all.”
“Most attorneys are drawn to the low-paying, intrinsically high-stress role of prosecutor by a passion for making a difference for crime victims,” Meyers wrote. “But the soaring rates of case dismissals and inability of ADAs to devote sufficient time to case development as they scramble to collect discovery documents had meant that the central gratification of the role itself — representing the people and seeking justice — has been monumentally removed.”





Embattled Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, whose soft-on-crime policies led to a flurry of resignations after he took office last year, has since blamed the discovery law for his office’s “record attrition.”
In March, he told the City Council that “our ADAs burned out and sought less demanding jobs for more money.”
On Monday, Bragg also told WNYC radio that in 2021, before he took office, “1,800 or so more misdemeanor cases that timed out, they were dismissed because discovery wasn’t turned over on time.”
In a statement Wednesday, Bragg said there were “technical changes we can make to the discovery legislation” that would protect public safety “while also preserving the intent of the law.”
“We look forward to sharing more about our proposal in the coming days and will continue to collaborate with law enforcement partners, elected officials and the defense bar on this important issue,” he added.
Queens DA Melinda Katz said that while discovery reform was “overdue,” some aspects “impose burdens on the criminal justice system not seen anywhere else in the country.”
Katz. A GunDistrict Attorney Melinda Katz believes the discovery law needs to be revised in order to benefit the criminal justice system. BRIGITTE STELZER
“Tens of thousands of cases were needlessly dismissed across the city last year because of the reform’s requirement that prosecutors share mounds of inconsequential information. Revisions to the reform are urgently needed,” she said.
Staten Island DA Michael McMahon also said that “onerous discovery rules have had a dramatic and negative impact on the ability of my office to secure justice for victims of crime, hold lawbreakers accountable, and prevent crime by steering people in need to meaningful programs.”
“In the last three to four years, we have lost scores of staff to the private sector and dispiritingly, to other roles in government because of the unreasonable and unnecessary demands placed on them by Albany,” he said.
Staten Island Borough President Vito J Fossella and DA Michael E. McMahonStaten Island DA Michael McMahon claims the discovery rules have a negative impact on providing justice for victims of crime.Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post
“The system as currently constructed by Albany is an abject failure, and we are seeing the impacts on our streets and in our courtrooms every day.”
The incoming president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Yung-Mi Lee of the Brooklyn Defender Services, didn’t challenge the report’s finding that discovery evidence didn’t get reviewed in 60% of cases.
“It was maybe an unforeseen technological challenge,” she said.
Lee also said that adapting to the new law “required an adjustment. And we’re still in the process of really working out the kinks at this point.”



“But I have to say, discovery reform has been incredibly eye-opening and extremely helpful,” she added.


The Legal Aid Society didn’t dispute the authenticity of the internal document Meyers said she obtained but blasted her study as “premised on a lie.”


“In fact, our team downloads discovery and disseminates evidence typically within 24 to 48 hours. The report’s author is either a liar or is so credulous and unconcerned with verifying facts that she should not be taken seriously,” a spokesperson said.
 

NYC starts 2023 with more than 18% spike in serious assaults — after Adams says crime ‘trending downward’​



By
Tina Moore,

Craig McCarthy and

Bruce Golding


January 19, 2023 5:25pm
Updated







The Big Apple’s new year is starting off with a thud — as NYPD statistics show serious assaults surged more than 18% compared to the same period in 2022.
Rapes were also up nearly 16% and robberies and burglaries rose 9.4% and 5.5%, respectively, for an overall 3.4% increase in year-to-date major crimes, according to NYPD statistics.
The ominous CompStat figures emerged after Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said that the city had finally turned the corner on crime and that worried New Yorkers could expect a better 2023.
“We’re leaving 2022 with crime…trending downward,” Adams said during a Jan. 5 news conference.
On the bright side, the latest numbers showed shootings and murders continued to decline this year at rates of 26.7% and 12.5%, respectively, compared to 2022.
Policing expert Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant, said it was “still early in the game” to predict what the statistics meant because “we’re only dealing with a couple of weeks.”
Mayor Eric Adams, speaking at an anti-crime summit on Jan. 19, said crime is trending downward.Mayor Eric Adams, speaking at an anti-crime summit on Jan. 19, has said crime is “trending downward.”Robert Miller
“This is the thing that people have to think about, though: we had pretty close to a record in increasing crime last year,” said Giacalone, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.




“So, if we’re not down this year, we’re in trouble because then this is the new normal and it will continue to get worse as they go along, instead of leveling off or going down.”
At this time last year, overall major crimes were up 35.2%, with a near-doubling of auto thefts and a 61.7% increase in grand larcenies.
Robberies had also increased at a rate of 25.1%, followed by rapes at 15.8% and felony assaults at 7.7%.
A law enforcement source said the NYPD was “dealing with an ebb and flow of constant recidivism that’s amplified” by criminal justice reforms, including cashless bail and new evidence rules, known as “discovery,” that prosecutors blame for pushing up the number of cases that get dismissed.
Another source said that “the downward trend of last month was based off of months of data, not weeks.”
A police source said that the department was able to make up ground in 2022 after a tough start to the year.A police source said that the department was able to make up ground in 2022 after a tough start to the year.Christopher Sadowski
“It can change like the weather,” the source said. “We got killed in the first few weeks of last year and we managed to push back and gain ground. We overcame earlier deficits.”
The source added: “The question is: What is the rest of the system doing? The NYPD can’t carry the totality of the burden.”
 
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