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NYC bodegas padlock laundry detergent as shoplifting scourge hits new low​



By
Matthew Sedacca


January 21, 2023 1:26pm
Updated






They’re joining the chain gang.
Desperate Bronx grocers are cracking down on serial thieves by slipping steel chains through the handles of laundry detergent bottles and securing them with padlocks — a new low in the shoplifting scourge across the Big Apple.
“I put the detergent in jail,” lamented Jose Dario Collado, owner of Yankee Food Deli in University Heights, which began locking up $27.99 bottles of Tide and $12.99 containers of Dreft because thieves were cleaning up — to the tune of at least $1,000 a month in detergent alone.
“Before the pandemic, New York was the best. Now, I don’t know what happened to the people,” huffed Collado.
Four miles away at Pamela’s Green Deli in Crotona Park East, the ‘Tide’ has also turned.
Near the back of the store, $21.99 bottles of Gain and $6.99 bottles of Era detergents are secured with a yellow chain and Tuff Stuff padlocks.
Jose Dario Collado with chained up detergent at his bodega, Yankee Food DeliJose Dario Collado began locking up the expensive detergent at his Bronx bodega a few months ago after losing $1,000 a month to shoplifters.J.C.Rice
“It makes people know that you’re aware that they’re stealing, so they’re gonna stop,” said Fernando Rodriguez, the 59-year-old deli owner, who paid $15 for the new security measure.
“We gotta confront those guys and sometimes we’re even scared,” he added. “Sometimes they’re coming armed when we don’t know.”
The lock-and-chain strategy was hatched by the United Bodegas of America in the wake of spiking thefts, explained Fernando Mateo, the organization’s president.
Exterior of Pamela's Green Deli in the BronxBodegas like Pamela’s Green Deli are locking up detergent to prevent thieves from stealing the pricey merchandise. J.C.Rice
“The justice system is just not cooperating, and it’s getting to a point where you either have to padlock every item that has to be stolen, or you have to fight back,” said Mateo. “And if you fight back you take the risk of going to jail for protecting your property.”
The city’s shoplifting crisis is showing no signs of abating, with petit larceny — or theft of less than $1,000 — up 14% this year through Jan. 15, compared to the same time period in 2022, according to NYPD data.
Residents stunned by the latest security inconvenience said the neighborhood’s junkie hordes were mostly to blame, as is the city’s revolving-door justice system.
Chained up bottles of Tide and Xtra detergentResidents blamed drug addicts and the lax justice system for the chained up detergents in their bodegas. J.C.Rice Chained up bottles of Tide detergentThe United Bodegas of America advised its members to use chains and padlocks to secure pricey products. J.C.Rice
“We live in a neighborhood where it’s a lot of drug addicts,” said Tylique Miles, 41, adding the thieves quickly flip the high-priced staples at a discount.
“The police can’t do anything to help,” griped Manuel San Miguel, 61, alluding to the state’s 2019 controversial bail reform law that bans judges from setting bail in cases involving non-violent felonies and misdemeanors such as shoplifting.
A group representing 4,000 independent grocers is demanding that “repeat theft offenders” be made bail eligible, undoing part of the bail reform legislation — and addressing the fact that petty thieves tend not to be prosecuted.



“They know that they could steal at less than $1,000, and they know they’ll get away,” cried Rodriguez. “The bail has to be changed. They’ve got to punish [these] people.”
 

Overnight NYC gunplay and stabbings leave one dead, five injured​



By
Dean Balsamini


January 21, 2023 11:38am
Updated





The deadly Saturday morning gunfire was the latest incident in overnight mayhem across the city, police said.
The deadly Saturday morning gunfire was the latest incident in overnight mayhem across the city, police said. G.N.Miller/NYPost



A 19-year-old man was killed in a shooting outside a Queens nightclub that also left a 31-year-old woman injured, police said.
The deadly Saturday morning gunfire was the latest incident in overnight mayhem across the city, which also left two others shot in Harlem and two men stabbed in Midtown, cops said.
Bullets flew outside the Amadeus Nightclub on Albion Avenue, near Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst at about 4 a.m. Saturday, police said.
The 19-year-old was shot in the back and shoulder and the 31-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks, cops said.
EMS took the two victims to Elmhurst Hospital, where the teen was pronounced dead and the woman was listed in stable condition, authorities said.
The gunfire took place in a packed crowd that had just poured out of the club. “There was some sort of dispute inside of the club that spilled outside and shots were fired,” an NYPD spokesman said.
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The 19-year-old was fatally shot in the back and shoulder and a 31-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks. Seth Gottfried
Cops are not sure if the victims knew each other or were involved in the dispute. They may have just been in “the wrong place at the wrong time,” the NYPD said.
The suspect, a man in his 30s, wearing a light blue hooded sweatshirt, sped off in a white and black SUV, cops said. There are no arrests.
Amadeus promoted an evening of live DJ sets that it billed as the “Infamous Coldest Winter Ever,” on the club’s Instagram.
The two victims to Elmhurst Hospital, where the teen was pronounced dead and the woman was listed in stable condition, authorities said.The two victims were taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where a teen was pronounced dead and the woman was listed in stable condition, authorities said. Seth Gottfried Police are seen at the scene of a woman shot.Cops are not sure if the victims knew each other or were involved in the dispute. Robert Mecea
Earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot in the left knee and a 36-year-old woman was struck in the right knee outside Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. around 3:40 a.m., cops said.
The victims were both taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police said. The suspect, a man wearing a yellow bubble jacket, remains on the loose, authorities said.
Police are also probing a Saturday morning “dustup” in Midtown that left two men stabbed in the back and four people under arrest.
Earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot in the left knee and a 36-year-old woman was struck in the right knee outside Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.A 30-year-old man was shot in the left knee and a 36-year-old woman was struck in the right knee outside Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.Seth Gottfried
Cops said a “two-on-two fight” on West 34th Street and 7th Avenue ended with the four individuals filing “cross complaints.” All four were taken into custody and the two stabbing victims were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Harlem Hospital, the NYPD said. The names and charges were not immediately available.
 

Two dead and four wounded in separate shootings in NYC​



By
Patrick Reilly


January 22, 2023 3:33am
Updated





Just after 9PM, two people were shot on East 46th street and Avenue K in Flatlands section of Brooklyn.
Just after 9PM, two people were shot on East 46th street and Avenue K in Flatlands section of Brooklyn. Paul Martinka





Two people were killed and four others were wounded in separate shootings in The Bronx and Brooklyn Saturday night, police said.
A 30-year-old man was shot in the torso and a 28-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder near 1432 E. 46th in Flatlands around 9:15 p.m., cops said.
Both victims were privately transported to Mount Sinai Hospital where the 30-year-old victim was pronounced dead, according to police.
The 28-year-old, whom police described as “highly uncooperative,” is recovering in stable condition.
No arrests have been made.
In the Bronx, a 33-year-old man was shot in the stomach and 29-year-old male was shot in the arm at 1115 College Avenue near 166th Street beside the Mott playground just before 10:30 p.m., police said.
Both victims were transported by EMS to Lincoln Hospital. The 33-year-old victim, who was known to police, died from his injuries. The 29-year-old is listed in stable condition, police said.
Police gather near the scene of the shooting.
Police gather near the scene of the shooting on East 46th Street.Paul Martinka
During their investigation, police located two additional victims connected to the shooting, cops said.
A 30-year-old man was found by police on Sherman Ave. and 157th Street with a gunshot wound to the lower back. He was transported by EMS to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
A fourth victim who was also shot in the lower back was privately taken to Harlem Hospital. Police later connected him to the shooting as well.



Police said all of the victims were being uncooperative with investigators.


No arrests were made, police said.
 

Number of underage murder suspects doubles as NYPD grapples with ‘deficient’ juvenile criminal justice system​



By
Tina Moore,

Craig McCarthy and

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


January 25, 2023 8:12pm
Updated







Big Apple cops are grappling with a “deficient” juvenile criminal justice system that treats young offenders with kid gloves — even as the city faces a twofold jump in the number of underage accused killers, NYPD officials told The Post.
Authorities said the state’s “Raise the Age” statute has led to a decline in overall arrests and more slap-on-the-wrist “juvenile reports” — the equivalent of a ticket that carries no criminal consequences for suspected teen offenders.
“We’ve been able to take 16- and 17-year-olds in Raise the Age and not criminalize it by doing juvenile reports,” outgoing NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor, in charge of the department’s youth division, said in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
“We’re not even giving them a little timeout, so to speak. And that’s where Raise the Age is really failing our kids. The recidivism is skyrocketing.”
O’Connor spoke just hours after Commissioner Keechant Sewell warned about “a system that is deficient in meaningful intervention for our youth” during the annual State of the NYPD speech in Midtown.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell discusses New York City crime.NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell says a ‘deficient’ juvenile justice system is plaguing the city. Robert Miller
NYPD stats show that between January and September last year, the number of underage homicide suspects jumped to 161, nearly double the number during the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.


The Raise the Age statute, signed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on April 10, 2017, took effect in October 2019, upping the age for a teen to face adult charges to 18, from the previous 16- and 17-year-old threshold.


Since then, police statistics show drastically fewer arrests in the seven major crimes and gun cases for under-18 suspects, with the number dropping from 5,009 in 2019 to 3,472 last year.




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Adam Klotz is seen with injuries in an Instagram story.
Adam Klotz is seen with injuries in an Instagram story. Instagram/@adamklotzfnc

Camrin Williams
Up-and-coming rapper Camrin Williams was not sent to Rikers for his alleged crimes. C Blu/YouTube

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Camrin Williams in hospital
Williams was eventually freed on bail.

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Instead, younger New Yorkers who get busted now face friendlier treatment as juveniles, with their cases tried in family court or the Youth Part in state Supreme Court — where records are sealed and sentences are significantly lighter.


O’Connor, who is retiring on Friday, said the juvenile reports “go nowhere” because juvenile crimes are sealed by law, keeping underage recidivism under wraps.


“That’s insane and nobody gets it,” he said. “The problem with the juvenile world is they’ve created a system that we’re not allowed to share any information. We’re not about the kids. I can use data and statistics, but how do you fix it when there’s no accountability.”


For instance, three teens recently nabbed for allegedly pummeling Fox News weatherman Adam Klotz on a Manhattan subway train last week were written up in juvenile reports and turned over to their parents without being charged.


One of the teens, who is 17, could have been charged with assault as an adult prior to the change in state law in 2019.


“Anyone who is prosecuted as a juvenile, the punishment is going to be much less,” prominent Manhattan defense attorney Mark Bederow said Wednesday. “That is a reality of how the system is created.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell discusses New York City crime. NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell says a ‘deficient’ juvenile justice system is plaguing New York City.Robert Miller
“Anybody who is prosecuted as a juvenile is not going to be facing the same penalties and the same consequences and if they are not properly provided services and life skills, there is always a greater chance they could end up doing something again,” Bederow added. “I think that is clear.”


Alex Griffith, the director of court partnerships and strategy at Exalt, a group that works with kids to prevent recidivism, said it has “developed partnerships with specific precincts to connect court-involved youth, ages 15-19 to our services before arraignment and disposition.”


“This process, known as the rapid youth referral, decreases recidivism, increases employability and academic/educational progression for court-involved youth and also elevates community trust with our NYPD partners,” Griffith added.


O’Connor said Raise the Age has also taxed the juvenile justice system and available resources.


“The only place they could put them was in one of two juvenile facilities, Horizons [Youth Services] or Crossroads [Juvenile Center],” he said. “So they turned Horizons into the remand for 16- and 17-year-olds.


“Over 50% of the kids in that facility right now are in for murder or attempted murder,” he said. “They only have the capacity citywide of a city of 1.1 million kids to hold 212 kids.”


Meanwhile, statistics reveal a disturbing new pattern in youth crime in recent years.


The Post reported last month that 12.7% of identified shooters in the five boroughs through the first nine months of last year were under 18 — up from the 9.2% figure from 2017.


More children have also found themselves in the line of fire, with one in 10 shooting victims in 2022 being under the age of 18.




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A 16-year-old who slugged a city cop at a Manhattan subway station in July.
A 16-year-old who slugged a city cop at a Manhattan subway station in July.

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The teen was released without bail.

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A scene from the 16-year-old slugging the officer.

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The teen had walked free days earlier after allegedly jumping a 49-year-old straphanger. Steven Hirsch

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Among those were 11-year-old Kyhara Tay, who was fatally struck by a stray bullet outside a nail salon in a botched moped drive-by targeting a 13-year-old in the Bronx in May 2022.

One of the two teenagers indicted over her murder — 18-year-old Omar Bojang — was arrested twice in 2020 for gun-related incidents that are sealed under Raise the Age, sources have said.


Other cases also highlight how Raise the Age has failed New Yorkers:


  • A 16-year-old who slugged a city cop at a Manhattan subway station in July was released without bail because the law classified him as a juvenile offender — even though he had also walked free days earlier after allegedly jumping a 49-year-old straphanger in Midtown.
  • Jahquell James, a 17-year-old reputed Brooklyn gangbanger, was cut loose despite an attempted murder rap and two open gun cases because he couldn’t be charged as an adult. Prosecutors finally got him locked up in May, but only after yet another gun bust.
  • Up-and-coming rapper Camrin Williams, 17, was shipped to a Brooklyn juvenile facility — and not Rikers Island — after allegedly shooting a city cop in January 2022. He was later released on bail. Williams already had a 2020 gun rap on his record, for which he got off with probation because of his juvenile status.

Police said other cases beyond the controversial law demonstrate the Big Apple’s recent uptick in troubling youth violence.


One 13-year-old reputed gangbanger was “executed” in the back of an Uber after getting released without bail in the midst of a Bronx gang war — and despite three prior gun busts.

Jahquell JamesJahquell James was freed despite an attempted murder rap.
“Why was he not in jail?” O’Connor asked. “Why was he not in some kind of limited security secure facility getting services and getting help.”





One law enforcement source explained that, “when a kid is arrested with a gun and gets out in time for dinner, it sends a message to all of his friends who might be on the margins.”


“That message says, ‘Pick up that gun. There are no consequences,” the source said. “That way of thinking then spreads like an infection. And the problem of youth violence becomes exponentially greater.


“The cruel irony is that the communities these politicians falsely purport to protect, are the communities cleaning the blood of children off of their streets.”
 

7 NYC businesses burglarized overnight as NYPD adds cops to night shifts​



By
Dean Balsamini and

Matthew Sedacca


January 28, 2023 7:09pm
Updated





Outside of Luke's Lobster.
Luke's Lobster on Amsterdam, between 80th and 81st street, saw its store front window broken. John Curtis Rice (J.C. Rice)






Seven Upper West Side businesses were broken into in a single night last week — a shocking tally that has prompted the local precinct boss to flood the streets with cops at night.
The burglaries unfolded between Sunday night and early Monday morning, according to cops, who said they have identified at least one suspect who remains at large.
In almost every case, the thief or thieves broke glass and went for the cash register.
“I don’t feel safe anymore,” Gazala Halavi told FOX5 after her business — Middle Eastern eatery Gazala’s on Amsterdam between 81st and 82nd streets — was damaged and $600 was taken.
The troubling scorecard included:
Spiga to Go on West 84th Street was hit by a bandit who broke the glass door and took money from the register, police said.
Rosetta Bakery on Broadway and 64th Street lost a laptop.


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Broken glass at the window of Gazala's.
Gazala’s on Amsterdam between 81st and 82nd streets — was damaged and $600 was taken. Handout

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Billy’s Bakery on Columbus was hit by a robber who took the cash register and cookies. John Curtis Rice (J.C. Rice)

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Seven Upper West Side businesses were broken into in a single night last week. Fox News/NYPD

Outside of Spiga on the Upper West Side.
Spiga to Go on West 84th Street was hit by a bandit who broke the glass door and took money from the register. John Curtis Rice (J.C. Rice)

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Joe Coffee Company on Columbus Avenue, between 69th and 70th streets, was boosted of cash and a laptop.




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Billy’s Bakery on Columbus, between 79th and 80th streets, was hit by a robber who took the cash register and dough — as in cookies. The register was found at West 79th and Columbus, authorities said.


Luke’s Lobster on Amsterdam, between 80th and 81st street, saw its storefront window broken.


Blossom on Columbus lost bottles of alcohol to thirsty thieves who used a chair to break the front window. Surveillance video caught an image of a burglar breaking into the vegan restaurant, cops said.


“Basically he took one of our outdoor metal chairs and smashed it through the window,” general manager Kiley Etling told the outlet.



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Deputy Inspector Neil Zuber, the commanding officer of the 20th Precinct, said investigators have ID’d a suspect in five of seven unsolved break-ins, without elaborating.


“You will see [cops] out there … instead of working the daytime, working at nighttime so that we can catch the people and, knock on wood, this time we’ll keep them in,” Zuber told the local community council.


The spate of break-ins was first reported by the West Side Rag.
 

One dead, four hurt after overnight mayhem across NYC​



By
Dean Balsamini


January 28, 2023 11:57am
Updated










One person was shot, three others were stabbed and an unidentified individual was found burned to death amid mayhem across the city overnight, police said.
In the deadly incident, a charred body was discovered following a mysterious car fire in Queens early Saturday, cops said.
The corpse was found after police responded to a report of a car fire at the intersection of Mott Avenue and Bay 25th Street in Far Rockaway shortly before 2:40 a.m., authorities said.

Police at the scene where two men were shot inside the Canal Street NQRW subway station at Broadway.Two men were shot inside the Canal Street NQRW subway station at Broadway.Christopher Sadowski
Once the FDNY extinguished the blaze, the body of the unidentified individual was discovered in the vehicle’s driver’s seat, authorities said.


The city medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death. Cops did not immediately have a make of the car or a description of the person who died in the blaze.




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A picture of the scene where three people were stabbed.
Three people were stabbed during an altercation in the Bronx around 6 a.m. Saturday morning, according to police. G.N.Miller/NYPost

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Police said the stabbing occurred during a possible “alcohol-related” episode outside Allerton and Olinville Ave. G.N.Miller/NYPost

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One victim was stabbed in the leg, another in the chest, and a third in the am, according to authorities. G.N.Miller/NYPost

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“The investigation remains ongoing at this time. The identification of the deceased is part of the active investigation,” the NYPD said.


Hours earlier, a 34-year-old man was shot on the subway in Downtown Manhattan, police said. The straphanger was hit in the torso during an argument with another man and his female companion on a southbound N train as it pulled into Canal Street and Broadway station just after 1 a.m., cops said. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to police. The NYPD was probing what the dispute was about.

Police at the scene where two men were shot inside the Canal Street NQRW subway station at Broadway in New York. A 34-year-old man was shot in the torso on the subway in Downtown Manhattan, police said. Christopher Sadowski


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Police at the scene where two men were shot inside the Canal Street NQRW subway station at Broadway in New York.
Authorities said the victim got into an argument with another man and his female companion on the southbound N train at the Canal Street and Broadway subway station. Christopher Sadowski

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to police.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, according to police. Christopher Sadowski





In the latest incident, three people were stabbed during an altercation in the Bronx at around 6:10 a.m. Saturday, police said. The bloodshed occurred during a possible “alcohol-related” episode outside Allerton Avenue and Olinville Avenue in Allerton, cops said.


One victim was stabbed in the leg, another in the chest, and a third in the arm, police said. The trio was transported to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, authorities said.
 

NYC subway crime drops by nearly 30% in first month of 2023​



By
Joe Marino and

Craig McCarthy


February 3, 2023 1:48pm
Updated










Subway crime dropped by nearly 30% last month as the city rides the momentum from the final weeks of 2022, new data shows.
The NYPD recorded 145 major felonies on the underground in January, down from 205 over the same period in 2022, according to police data obtained by The Post.
That’s also nearly half the tally of January 2020, when cops logged 261 major crimes.

Stock image of subway entrance blocked by crime scene tape
Major crime on the underground public trans saw a nearly 30% dip in January. Christopher Sadowski
The largest decrease was in grand larcenies, with a 44% dip from 97 to 54.

Robbery also saw a 20% drop from 58 to 46.

There were three fewer felony assaults on the subway system recorded last month compared to the prior year, 43 vs 46.

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The NYPD has increased police presence on the subways over the few months. Christopher Sadowski
The decrease comes just days after Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul credited the subway safety plan that flooded the system with cops last October for reducing the rate of crime on the rails.
 

NYC crime jumped in January —reversing promising trend that closed out 2022​



By
Craig McCarthy


February 3, 2023 6:51pm
Updated





New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell speaking to the press regarding the year end crime briefing of 2022 at 1 Police Plaza, Manhattan, New York, Thursday, January 5,
Crime jumped in the first month of 2023 by 4.1%. Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com



Crime jumped in the first month of the year — driven by an uptick in robberies, assaults, stolen cars and burglaries — reversing a downward trend that had New York City heading in the “right direction” at the end of 2022 according to NYPD brass.
Major crime in the Big Apple increased by 4.1% in January with 10,067 complaints compared to the same time last year, when 9,672 of the major seven felonies were recorded, according to NYPD statistics released Friday evening.
Felony assaults fueled the increase, surging to 2056 complaints, a 14.9% increase from last year, according to the data.
Robberies and burglaries jumped by 5.3%, 1,332 vs 1,265, and 7.2%, 1298 vs 1211, respectively, the data shows.
There was also a 5.1% jump in grand larceny autos with 1,223 reported last month compared to 1,164 over the same time last year.

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The city’s top cop said at the end of 2022 that crime was heading in the “right direction.”Robert Miller
Compared to before the pandemic descended on New York, the figures are even more staggering, with NYPD data showing a more than 20% increase in major crime between last month and January 2020.


The news comes as subway crime, a major issue last year, dropped by nearly 30% last month — and weeks after Hizzoner and his Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell took touted the progress in crime fighting at the end of 2022.


“I think we are trending in the right direction,” Sewell said at a press conference with Adams in late December.

Police Commissioner Keechant L. SewellOverall crime was up last month, despite a nearly 30% dip in transit crime. Anthony Behar/Sipa USA
Crime dropped in each of the last two months of 2022, which city officials believed was an early sign that the NYPD was reversing many of the COVID-era trends that sent crime soaring at an unprecedented rate.


The city’s top cop highlighted, in a press release Friday, that the NYPD’s focus on gun violence has led to a 26.3% decrease in shooting incidents last month, 73 vs 99, with 24 fewer victims of the violence.


Those tallies show the city saw shooting levels last month near pre-pandemic levels. The Big Apple logged just five fewer shootings in January 2020, with 67, data shows.





“As we step forward through 2023 and beyond, the women and men of the New York City Police Department are continuing to effectively and efficiently suppress violence, address the drivers of crime, and safeguard our streets and our subways,” Sewell said.


“More work, however, is required when it comes to certain categories of crime, and we are determined in our efforts to reverse these trends,” she conceded.

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey attends 2022 year end crime briefing at One Police Plaza.Chief of Department Jeff Maddrey testified in Albany earlier this week for better data to see how recidivism was affecting crime in NYC. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutters
Adams and his police leadership have repeatedly pointed the finger at rampant recidivists for much of the increase in crime last year due to controversial 2019 criminal justice reforms.


In his State of the City speech last month, the mayor vowed to increase funding to the city’s District Attorneys’ Offices and lobby Gov. Hochul for the same to help deal with the discovery burden that has led to an increase in criminal case dismissals under the reforms.


Hochul’s proposed budget released Monday provides $40 million in extra funding for more prosecutors and another $40 to help the criminal justice system meet the discovery requirement.
 

NYC shoplifting hit record highs last year: ‘We can’t stop them’​



By
Craig McCarthy,

Kyle Schnitzer,

Bernadette Hogan and

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


February 10, 2023 3:30pm
Updated











In New York, everything’s a five-finger discount these days.
The Big Apple has become a shoplifter’s paradise — with reported retail thefts hitting record levels for the second year in a row in 2022, a Post analysis of police data shows.
The number of shoplifting complaints surged to more than 63,000 last year — a 45% jump over the roughly 45,000 reported in 2021 and a nearly 275% jump compared to the mid-2000s, the statistics show.
“People keep taking things and we can’t stop them,” one frustrated employee told The Post on Thursday inside a Lower Manhattan Target that was hit hundreds of times.
“It’s a problem with all retail in the area. At some point, there won’t even be a store.”
The staggering data highlights business owners’ recent woes as they continue to wait for Mayor Eric Adams to make good on his promise two months ago to help during a citywide summit.
Reports of sticky-fingered shoppers have been creeping up each year since 2006 — which is the earliest data available — but have exploded in recent years.

Mayor Eric Adams held a summit in December to brainstorm ideas on how to combat the surge in retail theft. Steven Hirsch
The theft figures reached a high of 37,838 in 2019, just before the pandemic, when they briefly dropped.


But as the city tried to get back to normal, the number of thefts also returned to its old trend, as 2021 saw yet another record with 43,675 reports of shoplifting, larcenies and robberies, the NYPD data shows.


And last year the number spiked again, going up 20,024 for a total of 63,699 complaints, according to the statistics.

The trend started in 2017, but last year, shoplifting complaints jumped an unprecedented 45%.Robert Miller
In the NYPD’s 1st Precinct — the hardest-hit area in the city — shoplifting incidents nearly doubled in 2022 from 2,103 to 4,061, the data shows.


Nearby, in the East Village, 9th Precinct retail thefts soared by more than 150% from 579 to 1,467.


“Disheartening numbers, to say the least,” said former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann, who is now an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.


“There’s no quick fix to something like this,” Hermann noted. “Many stores just rely on the police for their issues and that’s not realistic nowadays.”




Meanwhile, fed-up store owners feel helpless — with a group of business leaders due to meet with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday in a desperate bid for help.


“The anxiety is of being aware that we’re all vulnerable,” said Marco Pasanella, the owner of Pasanella & Sons Vintners on South Street in Manhattan.


“I’m not scared of being attacked or anything,” Pasanella said. “But I’ve realized that stores are kind of sitting ducks if people want to be bad.”


Among the hardest-hit retailers is the Target department store on Greenwich Street in Manhattan, which was hit by shoplifters 646 times last year, the statistics show.


Three Duane Reade outlets on Broadway and Water Street in Manhattan reported more than 1,000 shoplifting incidents combined in 2022, according to the data.


And there’s very little that the stores can do about it.


“We normally have to let people take whatever they are stealing,” a Brooklyn supermarket employee said. “If I see someone taking something, I report it to one of the security officers upstairs and then they call the police.

Infographic discussing thefts in the city. Thefts have risen around 50% in the city. Getty Images/iStockphoto
“By the time police get here, the thief is gone,” the worker said. “If I touched someone or tried to prevent them from stealing, I’d get fired. So there’s not much we can do. The police aren’t here when we need them to be.”


Help was supposed to be on the way in December when Adams hosted a two-hour summit at Gracie Mansion to figure out how to curb retail thefts in the city.


All five Big Apple district attorneys, state Attorney General Letitia James and top NYPD officials were in attendance, along with business groups and major retailers.

The plan to combat retail theft has yet to be made public. Matthew McDermott
“Our retail stores have my commitment that we will continue to work towards real, long-lasting solutions on the issue of retail theft,” the mayor promised at the time.


But he left the summit after 20 minutes, leaving participants to work it out themselves.


“This data confirms what store workers and owners have been feeling every day: Retail theft is at a crisis level in New York City,” a spokesperson for the Collective Action to Protect Our Stores.


“Every day, our workers are being assaulted and stores robbed all while customers are placed in danger; we need the state and city to step up.”

The tally of shoplifting complaints surged to more than 63,000 last year. William Farrington
City Hall and NYPD did not respond for comment.


Meanwhile, one veteran cop said New York’s Finest find themselves short-handed.





“The job can’t address this condition until they address the manpower shortage [at the NYPD] to respond to these jobs, or be present to prevent them,” he said.


“You can’t just paint over mold for a long-term solution.”
 
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NYC shootings, stabbing leave one dead, three hurt​



By
Dean Balsamini and

Larry Celona


February 11, 2023 11:23am
Updated





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Police outside Club Lavo on East 58th Street, where a man was slashed overnight. Seth Gottfried


A man was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Bronx and another was pistol-whipped, robbed and shot in a separate incident in Brooklyn overnight, police said.
The deadly Bronx episode unfolded around 5 a.m. Saturday in front of 1556 White Plains Rd., near Archer Road, police said.
The Bronx victim was standing outside of his car when a gray mini-van pulled up, and multiple shots were fired, the NYPD said. The victim, 27, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center.
About an hour earlier, a man was slashed in the face and arm in front of Lavo Nightclub on East 58th Street, between Madison and Park avenues shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, police said. The “highly uncooperative” victim, 41, was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition, cops said. There are no arrests.

police outside Lavo NightclubA 41-year-old man was slashed during a dispute outside Lavo Nightclub in Manhattan.Seth Gottfried
And at 4 a.m. Saturday, a man walked into Queens General Hospital saying he had been shot in the left leg. The NYPD had no other details. The victim, 25, was listed in stable condition.


On Friday, in Brooklyn, a man was pistol-whipped, robbed and shot inside a Myrtle Avenue smoke shop, cops said.


Two men entered the 477 News & Tobacco store at 477 Myrtle Ave., near Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday and shot the victim in the head during the attack, police said. The victim, 48, was transported to Methodist Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.

The nightclubThe slashing victim was “highly uncooperative,” according to police.Seth Gottfried


The Brooklyn attack is the latest in a series of shootings involving smoke shops across the city.
 

Big Apple’s core is rotten with crime: NYPD stats, experts, biz owners​



By
Dean Balsamini


February 11, 2023 9:56am
Updated





Police officers stand behind a cordon after a fatal shooting in New York City on February 9
Police officers stand behind a cordon after a fatal shooting in New York City on Feb. 9. AFP via Getty Images






The Big Apple’s core is rotten with crime, new police stats show.
Major crimes in the Midtown South have skyrocketed 44% as of Feb. 5 compared to the same time last year, with 412 incidents vs. 287, according to the NYPD.
The staggering jump in crime outpaces the total incidents for the city, which increased just 2.6%.
The precinct features some of the city’s most crowded and iconic spots, including Times Square, the Grand Central Terminal, Madison Square Garden and the Port Authority Bus Terminal — near where fatal gunfire erupted this week.
Bullets flew at West 44th Street and Eighth Avenue Thursday, outside a Shake Shack around 5:35 p.m., leaving 22-year-old Idrissa Siby of the Bronx dead and pedestrians in the packed tourist spot scurrying. The killing was believed to have been carried out by drug dealers, police and sources said.

Crime sceneBullets flew outside a Shake Shack on West 44th Street and Eighth Avenue, leaving a 22-year-old man dead.AFP via Getty Images
Last month, a slasher went on a spree that left three people injured near the infamous bus terminal. Luis D Rosas, 41, was arrested Jan. 3 there — where he had been nabbed days earlier for menacing someone in a bathroom, according to the Port Authority Police Department and police sources.

The alleged serial slasher attacked his first victim, a 41-year-old man, around 9:15 p.m. Jan. 2 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.


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. The same assailant also 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 police sources. In that instance, the victim was on the stairs when the stranger slashed him without warning and ran off.

Midtown South crime is surgingMajor crimes in the Midtown South have skyrocketed 44% this year as of Feb. 5 compared to the same time last year, NYPD data show.AFP via Getty Images
“It’s kind of a race to the bottom. I don’t know if they don’t have enough cops or they just don’t care,” said a concerned 44-year-old Manhattan business owner, who declined to give his name.


“The mentally ill aren’t being addressed, there’s open air drug use and it’s all symptomatic,” he continued. “The ironic thing is this is the commercial corridor of the city. This is the heart of what New York is known for . . . The city isn’t doing a lot to clean this up.”


Felony assaults in Midtown South have surged 115%, up to 56 from 26; while robberies have spiked 59%, with 59 compared to from 37.


Also, grand larcenies are up 39% (to 237 from 170); burglaries climbed 10% (to 53 from 48), and auto thefts zoomed 20% (to 6 from 5), the data show.

Blood spilled in MidtownFelony assaults in Midtown South skyrocketed 115% this year compared to the same time period in 2022, NYPD statistics show.Seth Gottfried
Midtown South “continues to be decimated as if the city has almost given up on Times Square, [Grand Central Terminal], Penn Station and Koreatown; all under criminal control,” tweeted tech entrepreneur Reza Chowdhury, who founded AlleyWatch and New York Startup Lab.


Getting the Midtown madness — menacing vagrants, drug users and unhinged assailants — under control is key, business people and experts say.


“It’s an increase of shoplifting and random attacks,” groused Anthony Mignano, who manages 1450 Broadway, a 42-story office tower located on the corner of West 41st Street.

Cordoned off crime sceneRobberies are up 59% this year through Feb. 5 compared to the same time in 2022.Seth Gottfried
In July, he argued that homeless drug addicts were taking advantage of the LinkNYC WiFi kiosks, stopping customers from coming to his retail spaces. Mignano this week said business leaders successfully lobbied for more cops over the summer, but the “police presence has decreased” and the vagrants are back.”


Just about everyone who comes to New York City to work, visit, or play in Manhattan comes through Penn Station, Grand Central Station or the Port Authority Bus Terminal – all located within the not so friendly confines of the Midtown South precinct,” snarked Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and now a professor at John Jay College.


“You want to see the Knicks, Rangers, or go to a concert? You take the LIRR into Penn for Madison Garden. The mayor and other politicians continue to push companies to get people back to work, but the precinct that has the major hub for transportation is struggling mightily with crime. Can we blame people for not wanting to come in?”

NYPD officers gatherMajor crime is up in Midtown South but so are arrests, the NYPD said.Seth Gottfried
The NYPD “continuously monitors crime conditions and drivers of violence as part of our mission of public safety for all New Yorkers,” the department said, noting, arrests involving major crime have increased during the same period by 64% ( 175 vs. 107). Quality of life enforcement has increased with criminal courts summons up 630% (416 vs. 57), the NYPD said.





“To address this crime condition, steady foot posts have been added and targeted enforcement continues to be conducted by Public Safety and Neighborhood Coordination Officers,” the department added.
 

At least four people shot in violent Saturday night in NYC​



By
Larry Celona,

Patrick Reilly and

Steven Vago


February 12, 2023 12:40am
Updated











At least four people were shot, one fatally, as a weekend of violence continued in The Big Apple Sunday, police and sources said.
There have been at least 20 shootings or stabbings in all five of the city’s boroughs in just the last two days causing at least three deaths.
The bloodshed resumed Saturday night when a man was fatally shot at a Harlem smoke shop near the busy intersection at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue shortly after 10 p.m., police and sources said.
Police sources said the man was declared dead at the scene.
A trail of blood was splattered on the sidewalk outside of the Shake Shack across the street from the Level Up Exotics smoke shop.

Police responding to a shooting outside a smoke shop in Manhattan on Feb. 11, 2023.A violent night in NYC leaves at least four people shot across the city. Police responding to a shooting outside a smoke shop in Manhattan on Feb. 11, 2023.Christopher Sadowski Police at the scene where a man was fatally shot near a smoke shop and Shake Shack on E125th Street and Fifth Avenue around 10:15 p.m. on Feb. 11, 2023. Christopher Sadowski
“The guy was bleeding over there,” said one witness, gesturing towards the sidewalk outside of the restaurant.


“I saw them try to give him CPR. He was bleeding like crazy,” they said.


Nijam, an employee at Kennedy Fried Chicken which is also at the intersection, said he heard shouting followed by a single gunshot.


“It’s dangerous. There is too much crazy people here,” he said about the area.

E125th Street and Fifth AvenueShouting was heard before shots rang out on E125th Street and Fifth Avenue on Feb. 11, 2023.Christopher Sadowski
Just blocks away at the same time, a female was shot near 125th Street and 2nd Avenue, according to police.


“I was taking care of a customer and I saw this woman and she was shot in the chest,” BP gas station attendant Mohammed Sayer told The Post.


She told him through tears that she had been shot, while clutching her chest. She was shot somewhere nearby and then walked to the gas station, Sayer said.




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Police at the scene where a woman was shot near a BP gas station on Feb. 11, 2023.
Police at the scene where a woman was shot near a BP gas station on Feb. 11, 2023. Christopher Sadowski

Police at the scene where a woman was shot near a BP gas station on Feb. 11, 2023.
The woman said she walked to the gas station after being shot. Christopher Sadowski

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on E125th Street and Second Avenue in New York, NY around 10:30 p.m. on February 11, 2023.
The shooting happened near on E125th Street and Second Avenue in New York, NY around 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 11, 2023. Christopher Sadowski

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“I’m very scared of this area. There is a lot of crime here,” he said through bulletproof glass.


In the Bronx, a man was shot near 55 E. 196th St. in the Jerome Park neighborhood around 9:40 p.m., cops said.


Another man was shot in Staten Island at 121 Norway Avenue around 11:15 p.m., police said.

The stabbing occurred around 9:40 pm near the corner of New York and Church Avenues in Brooklyn. The stabbing occurred around 9:40 pm near the corner of New York and Church Avenues in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka
Additionally, a 29-year-old man was slashed in the neck in Brooklyn, cops said.


According to police, the victim was stabbed at 3202 Church Street in East Flatbush around 9:38 p.m.


He was transported to King’s County Hospital in grave condition.

A pool of blood on the sidewalk outside a liquor store in Brooklyn on Feb. 11. A pool of blood on the sidewalk outside a liquor store in Brooklyn on Feb. 11. Paul Martinka
The suspect, a male dressed in all black, fled the scene on foot, police said.


Over a 15 hour period from Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, two people were killed and 13 others were shot or slashed across four boroughs.


A woman was shot early Sunday morning outside a Bronx nightclub, cops said.


The 19-year-old was shot in the right leg in front of 53 Westchester Square, where Plush 101 is located, around 4:15 a.m., cops said. She was taken to a local hospital by private means in stable condition.
 

NYC saw record levels of felony crimes last year, most in over 15 years​



By
Craig McCarthy


February 12, 2023 4:29pm
Updated











The streets of New York are meaner than they’ve been in more than 15 years thanks to soaring felony crimes, new police data reveal.
More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year — the most since 2006, when the NYPD first started making such statistics publicly available.
The data, released last week, shows a record 172,852 felonies reported in 2022. That’s up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded.
“Things in a large city aren’t supposed to grow that much or go down that much in one year,” said Former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann, now an assistant professor at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“This is kind of like monumental kind of stuff,” he told The Post, “like once in a lifetime.”
Last year’s tally was driven by a surge in major crimes, as well as other felonies not detailed in the NYPD’s Compstat report, including criminal mischief, criminal contempt, strangulation and dangerous weapons possession.

Cage The Elephant lead singer Matthew Shultz is arrested.More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year.William Farrington
It was even higher than 2006, the earliest year publicly available, which had 171,318 felony complaints recorded, the data shows.


The staggering figures highlight the struggles that remain for Mayor Eric Adams and his police administration, who focused much of their attention on tackling gun violence and subway crime last year.


While murders did drop significantly — which the NYPD attributed to a reduction in shootings — every other category of major crimes saw an increase, with 2022 ending with 126,588 serious offenses, a 22.4% jump from the year prior, the data shows.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams are the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.Felonies are up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded.Robert Miller
It marked the first time the city topped 120,000 major crimes since 2007.


“The end-of-year numbers are horrible like you can’t get like there’s no way to get around that,” Hermann said.


Major crime continued to spike into the new year, with a 4.1% increase in complaints of the seven major felonies in January compared to the same time last year, according to NYPD statistics released earlier this month.


While not part of the NYPD compstat — which includes the most serious offenses, such as murder, robbery, burglary, grand larceny, car theft and rape — police experts warned other felonies should also be taken seriously.

Police at the scene where two women were shot on W 143rd Street.This year marked the first time the city topped 120,000 major crimes since 2007.Christopher Sadowski
Many seemingly minor crimes can often be a “prelude” to a more serious offenses, Hermann said.


“Criminal trespass is always a prelude to burglary, which can be a prelude [crime], which can quickly become a robbery which can then quickly become an assault,” he said.


“The misdemeanor assault becomes a felony assault becomes the domestic violence shooting, said Hermann, adding domestic violence historically according for a third of city homicides.


“There has always been an escalation of violence with regard to domestic violence. Those things you know, certainly do matter.”

Police at the scene where two people were shot on Third Avenue at E111th Street.Many seemingly minor crimes can often be a “prelude” to more serious offenses.Christopher Sadowski
Topping the list of non-major seven felonies that jumped last year was criminal mischief, with 13,006 recorded, up from 11,052 in 2021.


Criminal contempt, which is typically for flouting a judge’s order rose from 8,463 to 10,216. Dangerous weapons complaints, meanwhile, increased from 3,952 to 4,783.


Longtime New Yorkers agreed the Big Apple seems to only be getting more rotten with crime.


“Things are messed up, what else can you say?” a security guard from Brooklyn, who gave his name as Frank L., 58, told The Post on Sunday near the Lower Manhattan courthouses.


“I’ve lived here my entire life and it just continues to get worse.”

NYPD carTopping the list of the non-major seven felonies that jumped last year was criminal mischief, with 13,006 recorded, up from 11,052 in 2021.Gregory P. Mango
Michael Jack, a 37-year-old consultant from the Upper West Side said he just no longer feels safe.


“It makes me sad considering how much potential the city has, but it’s just going the wrong way, year-after-year, in terms of quality of life,” he said. “I’m often looking over my shoulder when walking down the streets regardless of the time of day.”


Criminals appear to be “more emboldened than ever,” Jack said, adding, “I feel like the police don’t have enough support to do their job properly.”

A man was shot in the arm and leg in front of the Kolly Deli and Grill.Mayor Adams and his police leadership have pointed the finger at recidivism for much of the increase in crime last year.Gregory P. Mango
Adonis Rodriguez, an aspiring rapper born and raised in Brooklyn who works at a coffee shop in SoHo noted: “There’s a lot of bulls–t going on in the city.”


“Certain hours of the day I try not to be caught out,” he said, explaining he tried not be out “anytime” after midnight.


Adams, a former cop, and his police leadership have pointed the finger at recidivism for much of the increase in crime last year due to the state’s controversial 2019 reforms.

NYPDHochul’s proposed budget provides $40 million in extra funding for more prosecutors.Gregory P. Mango
He vowed to vowed to boost funding to the city’s District Attorneys’ Offices and lobby Gov. Kathy Hochul for the same in his State of the City speech last month.


Hochul’s proposed budget provides $40 million in extra funding for more prosecutors and the same amount to help deal with the discovery burden that has led to an increase in criminal case dismissals under the criminal justice reforms.

Mayor AdamsAdams has blasted the state’s bail reform laws. Matthew McDermott
Asked about the new data at the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, Hochul told The Post she’s working with the mayor to bring the numbers down.


“I’m working very hard with the mayor in partnership to bring our resources to help keep crime down so people do feel safe whether you’re a business owner, someone walking the streets or one of our commuters,” she said. “Everybody deserves to feel safe and that’s my top priority.”
 

NYC shootings leave two men dead Wednesday, NYPD on the hunt for suspects​



By
Allie Griffin


February 16, 2023 2:37am
Updated








Two men were killed in separate shootings within the span of about five hours in the Bronx and Manhattan on Wednesday night, police said.
Officers responded to the first call of shots fired around 5:20 p.m. in the Tremont section of the Bronx. They found a 21-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the torso near the corner of East 176th Street and Anthony Avenue.
The victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died of his injuries, cops said.
The second shooting happened soon before 10 p.m. in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, authorities said.
Cops rushed to the scene of an ongoing assault at the intersection of Riverside Drive and West 163rd Street, where they found a 44-year-old man bleeding from gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
An ambulance rushed the man to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.


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There were no arrests for the shooting that took place near West 163rd Street and Riverside Drive on Feb. 15.
There were no arrests for the shooting that took place near West 163rd Street and Riverside Drive on Feb. 15. William C Lopez/New York Post

An ambulance rushed the man police found to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An ambulance rushed the man police found to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. William C Lopez/New York Post




The identity of the victims was being withheld Wednesday night pending family notification.


Police are investigating the shootings and there have been no arrests.
 

2 shot in separate shootings in NYC on Saturday night​



By
Steven Vago and

Patrick Reilly


February 18, 2023 10:57pm
Updated





A woman was shot in Brooklyn near the Ebbets Field Apartments.
A woman was shot in Brooklyn near the Ebbets Field Apartments. Paul Martinka





A woman was shot in Brooklyn and a man was shot in Manhattan on a bloody Saturday night in New York, according to police.
The 24-year-old woman was shot in the right leg outside of the Ebbets Field Apartments on McKeever Place and Montgomery Street in Crown Heights around 9:05 p.m., police said.
She was taken to Kings County Hospital where she is expected to recover, according to police.
The woman was being uncooperative, and no suspects have been identified, cops said.
Police taped off the parking lot of the apartment complex and were searching the inside of a Nissan Maxima with a Tennessee license plate.
An elderly resident told The Post her daughter heard one shot.

Police search a vehicle outside of the Ebbets Field apartments.Police search a vehicle outside of the Ebbets Field Apartments after a shooting Saturday.Paul Martinka
“I’m not too happy about it. I’ve lived here 53 years and this is the third shooting that happened around here,” said the resident, who declined to give her name.


“I hope to get out of here in three years,” she said, adding she plans to move to Virginia.


In Manhattan, a 25-year-old man was shot in the back around 9:10 at 310 East 113 Street in East Harlem, police said.

Police at scene where woman was shot in Brooklyn Saturday nightPolice said the female shooting victim was uncooperative.Paul Martinka
He was taken to Cornell Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.


Police described the shooting suspect as a man in his 20s wearing a black coat, blue hoodie, black jeans, timberlands and a New York Yankees hat. He fled on foot in an unknown direction.
 

Two injured in overnight NYC shootings, cops say​



By
Dean Balsamini and

Larry Celona


February 25, 2023 10:59am
Updated





The victims, ages 30 and 37 were both struck in the leg
The victims, ages 30 and 37 were both struck in the leg. Seth Gottfried


Two women were shot in Brooklyn overnight, police said.
The victims, ages 30 and 37 were both struck in the leg when gunfire erupted as they exited a fourth-floor apartment at 580 Blake Ave. in East New York on Saturday shortly before 1 a.m., cops said.
The women were taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, police said.
There were no arrests.

Police patrolThe shootings took place shortly before 1 a.m., cops said.Seth Gottfried Police at the crime sceneThe victims, ages 30 and 37 were both struck in the leg when gunfire erupted as they exited a fourth-floor apartment at 580 Blake Ave. in East New York.Seth Gottfried
 

Two shot, two stabbed across NYC overnight: cops​



By
Tina Moore


February 26, 2023 8:54am
Updated





Brooklyn stabbing
One victim is in critical condition after the violent stabbing. Seth Gottfried







A man and a woman were shot after a dispute in Queens, and two men were stabbed in Brooklyn in unrelated incidents early Sunday, cops said.
The bullets flew on Beach 100th Street in Rockaway Beach around 4 a.m. after a fight inside a residence spilled out into the street, according to police.
A 22-year-old woman was shot in the right foot and a 35-year-old man was struck in the left leg. It was unclear what the fight was about.
They were both rushed to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition. Four shell casings were found on the scene.
The stabbing happened about three hours earlier at Parade Place and Canton Avenue in Brooklyn.
A man in his 30s was in grave condition after he was knifed in the torso during a dispute around 12:30 a.m., cops said. He was taken to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition.
A 35-year-old man was also stabbed in the incident but he was in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.

brooklyn shootingA 22-year-old woman was shot in the right foot and a 35-year-old man was struck in the left leg. Seth Gottfried overnight shooting and stabbing brooklynThe bullets flew on Beach 100th Street in Rockaway Beach around 4 a.m.Seth Gottfried
The suspect was described as a man wearing a white and black jacket and a white face mask. :mad:





He fled on foot.
 

Two men shot dead, four others injured in less than 24 hours in NYC​



By
Tina Moore


February 26, 2023 8:54am
Updated





Brooklyn stabbing
One victim is in critical condition after the violent stabbing. Seth Gottfried





Two men were gunned down and four other people were injured in four separate shootings over less than 24 hours during a bloody weekend in New York City, police said.
Both of the fatal shootings took place in the Bronx, The victim in the more recent, a 25-year-old man identified as Achilles Baskin, found murdered on the street in midday, police said.
Baskin was struck multiple times throughout his body at E. 183rd Street and Bathgate Avenue around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital but couldn’t be saved.
A person of interest was taken into custody at the scene, police sources said.
The other man killed, a 29-year-old who was not publicly identified, was shot in the chest and head during an argument in the lobby of his apartment building on Sheridan Avenue near Grand Concourse around 11 p.m. Saturday, according to police.

A fast food bag is left behind at the scene of the Bronx shooting.A fast food bag is left behind at the scene of the Bronx shooting.Christopher Sadowski
He was taken to Lincoln Hospital but couldn’t be saved. The shooter fled in a dark sedan, cops said.


The motive wasn’t immediately known in either of the fatal shootings.


Bullets also flew on Beach 100th Street in Rockaway Beach around 4 a.m. Sunday, striking a 22-year-old woman in the right foot and a 35-year-old man in the left leg.

Police at the scene of the fatal shooting on Sheridan Avenue.Police at the scene of the fatal shooting on Sheridan Avenue.Christopher Sadowski
The gunfire followed a fight inside a residence that spilled out into the street, according to police. It was unclear what the fight was about.


Both victims were both rushed to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition. Four shell casings were found on the scene.


Later that evening, two more people were struck by gunfire in South Jamaica, Queens.

brooklyn shootingA 22-year-old woman was shot in the right foot and a 35-year-old man was struck in the left leg. Seth Gottfried overnight shooting and stabbing brooklynThe bullets flew on Beach 100th Street in Rockaway Beach around 4 a.m.Seth Gottfried



A 31-year-old woman was shot in the right leg and a 28-year-old man was shot in the left leg outside the Baisley Park Houses on Guy R Brewer Boulevard shortly after 6 p.m., police said.


Both were taken to Jamaica Hospital and were expected to survive. There have been no arrests.


Hours earlier, two men were stabbed in a separate fight at Parade Place and Caton Avenue in Brooklyn around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, police said.


A man in his 30s was in critical condition after he was knifed in the torso, cops said. He was taken to Maimonides Hospital.


A 35-year-old man was also stabbed in the torso but he was in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.


The suspect was described as a man wearing a white and black jacket and a white face mask. He fled on foot.
 
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Two men shot just hours apart in NYC: police​



By
Larry Celona,

Tina Moore and

Snejana Farberov


February 27, 2023 3:43pm
Updated










The week got off to a bloody start in New York City when two men were shot just hours apart in Brooklyn and Queens on Monday morning.
Police said a 31-year-old man was shot in the right arm in the 700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn around 8:30 a.m.
Law enforcement sources said the victim — whose name was not released publicly Monday — was the intended target of the shooting, though the motive behind the attack was not immediately disclosed.
Police are looking for a male suspect who was last seen wearing an orange construction vest in connection to the shooting.
About two hours later, a 30-year-old man walked into Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, suffering from a gunshot wound to his left hand. He was listed in a stable condition.

NYPD vehicles are seen at the scene of Monday's shooting in East New York. A 31-year-old man was shot in the arm along Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, Monday morning. WCBS-TV 700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn Police are looking for a suspect in an orange construction vest who is accused of shooting the victim in a targeted attack. WCBS-TV Elmhurst Hospital in QueensIn Queens Monday, a man walked into Elmhurst Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the hand. Stephen Yang
Sources said the victim, whose name was not released, has no criminal history.


Additional details about that shooting were not immediately available.


According to the latest data from the NYPD, shooting incidents in the Big Apple were down more than 20% as of Feb. 19, compared to the same time a year ago.
 

One person stabbed in NYC overnight​



By
Dean Balsamini and

Larry Celona


March 4, 2023 12:30pm
Updated





Police at the scene where a person was stabbed inside of the 59th Street subway station in New York, NY around 1 a.m. on March 4, 2023.
Police at the scene where a person was stabbed inside of the 59th Street subway station in New York, NY around 1 a.m. on March 4, 2023. Christopher Sadowski





A man was stabbed in the back while waiting for a train on a Manhattan subway platform, police said.
The victim, 30, was knifed at the southbound “4” train station platform at East 59th Street and Lexington Avenue shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
He was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition, but was uncooperative with police, authorities said.
Cops are looking for two suspects. There are no arrests.
Police on Saturday were also looking for a hazmat suit wearing gunman who shot dead an Upper East Side deli worker late Friday night.

police at subway station crime sceneA 30-year-old man was stabbed in the back early Saturday, police said.Christopher Sadowski 59th Street station signThe victim was knifed on the southbound “4” train station platform at East 59th Street and Lexington Avenue shortly after 1 a.m. Christopher Sadowski
 
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