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NYC sees 5 shot in 4 separate incidents overnight
A 24-year-old man was blasted in the chest following an argument with another man on East 165th Street near Trinity Avenue, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Forest Houses.
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NYC sees 5 shot in 4 separate incidents overnight
By
Amanda Woods
September 23, 2021 8:50am
Updated
At least five people were injured in four separate shootings overnight across the Big Apple, cops said Thursday.
A 24-year-old man was blasted in the chest following an argument with another man on East 165th Street near Trinity Avenue, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Forest Houses in the Bronx, around 2 a.m., authorities said.
He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in stable condition.
About an hour earlier, two 20-year-old men — one in a black Honda sedan and the other in a silver BMW sedan — fired at each other on Jefferson Avenue near Ralph Avenue in the Ocean Hill section of Brooklyn, police said.
The man who was in the Honda was taken to Interfaith Medical Center in stable condition, cops said.
A short time later, the other man, who was shot in the left arm, walked into the same hospital, police said.
Authorities found the BMW outside the hospital.
A 24-year-old was shot in the chest on East 165th Street near Trinity Avenue in the Bronx.Seth GottfriedHours earlier, around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg at Grand Concourse and East 166th Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx, authorities said.
He reported hearing shots and feeling pain, and was taken to BronxCare Health System by private means, cops said.
About an hour earlier, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the buttocks at East New York Avenue near East 94th Street in Crown Heights, authorities said.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
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Overnight shootings in NYC hurt at least 3
At least three people were hurt in separate shootings across the Big Apple overnight.
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Overnight shootings in NYC hurt at least 3
By
Amanda Woods
September 24, 2021 11:20am
Updated
At least three people were hurt in separate shootings across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.
A 41-year-old man was shot in the leg after a squabble with another adult male on 139th Road near 175th Street in Jamaica around 3:10 a.m. Friday, cops said.
He went to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
About three hours earlier, an 18-year-old woman was shot in the hip by a man at the Hugh J. Grant Circle in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, authorities said.
She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, also in stable condition.
She was uncooperative with investigators and did not provide any information about what happened, police said.
Thursday night, a 42-year-old man was shot in the back in the lobby of NYCHA’s Castle Hill Houses on Randall Avenue around 9:20 p.m., cops said.
The gunfire erupted during an argument with a man in his 50s, who the victim knows, cops said. The suspect took off after the shooting.
The victim also went to Jacobi with non-life-threatening injuries.
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2 killed and 1 injured in overnight NYC shootings
A man hanging out with a pal in Astoria was shot twice in the face and killed late Friday, when an attacker in a gray hoodie marched up and opened fire, cops said.
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2 killed and 1 injured in overnight NYC shootings
By
Dean Balsamini
September 25, 2021 9:27am
Updated
Scene where 2 were shot at the Astoria Houses in Queens
Two men were killed and another was hurt in two separate shootings across New York City overnight, police said.
The bloodshed occurred in a span of 30 minutes in Queens.
Police search for evidence at the scene of a double shooting in Astoria early Saturday morning.Robert Mecea for NY PostA man hanging out with a pal in Astoria was shot twice in the face and killed late Friday, when an attacker in a gray hoodie marched up to 40-05 Astoria Blvd. and opened fire, cops said.
Anthony Edwards, 31, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital-Queens, while his 30-year-old friend — who was shot in the groin as he tried to flee — was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/Elmhurst, in stable condition, cops said.
Cops respond to the scene of the double shooting in Astoria.Wayne CarringtonLess than 30 minutes earlier, at about 10:45 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a man shot on 102nd Road and 84th Street in Ozone Park, only to learn the victim was taken by private means to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with gunshot wounds to the torso and left leg, cops said.
The man was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said. No arrests have been made.
Anthony Edwards, 31, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital-Queens as a result of the shooting in Astoria.Robert Mecea for NY Post
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Carjacking cases skyrocket in NYC
The number of carjackings in NYC as of Sept. 19 are up 81 percent, with 324 reported so far this year, compared to 179 in the same 2020 timeframe.
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Carjacking cases skyrocket in NYC
By
Dean Balsamini
September 25, 2021 5:14pm
Updated
With more New Yorkers back behind the wheel, carjackers are putting the pedal to the metal.
The number of carjackings as of Sept. 19 are up 81 percent, with 324 reported so far this year, compared to 179 in the same 2020 timeframe. The number is a whopping 277 percent spike from 2019, when NYPD data showed just 86 such incidents.
A recent carjacking caught on video shows just how violent such incidents can be.
A man behind the wheel of a BMW 328i, which can retail for well north of $30,000, was yanked out of his ride and punched twice in the face by a gang of motorcycle-riding robbers at gunpoint on Sept. 12 in Inwood, cops said.
Tyler Hall, 33, was hit with a slew of charges from carjacking.Paul Martinka for NY PostThe chilling 2:30 a.m. heist, on Riverside Drive near Henshaw Street, left the driver, 23, with a broken nose. The gang took off with his luxe car and his necklace, police said.
The carjackers don’t just prey on pricey wheels.
On the night of March 29, car bandits descended on a 26-year-old driving a 2010 Honda on a busy Brooklyn street, according to cops and surveillance video.
Two thieves approached the driver as he sat in the parked car in Clinton Hill, asked for the time then flashed a knife and ordered the motorist and a pal out. Once they did, two other vehicle vultures emerged and all four took off in the stolen vehicle, cops said.
In June, a pair of Hell’s Kitchen carjackers drove off in an SUV with two women inside — and dragged another woman who was standing outside the car for several feet. The three women, all in their 30s, had left a silver 2013 GMC Acadia parked but still running at 10th Avenue and West 42nd Street around 11:25 p.m. June 16, cops said.
A child’s father is devastated while cops searched for his daughter.Paul Martinka for NY PostAnd in an episode out of a parent’s worst nightmare, a man from New Hampshire was charged with stealing a car with a 2-year-old girl inside in Brooklyn. Tyler Hall, 33, was hit with a slew of charges in the harrowing July 2 incident, including robbery, vehicular assault, grand larceny, reckless endangerment, unauthorized use of a vehicle, unlawful imprisonment and acting in a manner injurious to a child. The girl was unharmed.
“It’s opportunists taking advantage of a low-risk high-reward crime with little or no consequences,” said Joseph Giacalone, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former NYPD sergeant.
aA broad daylight carjacking was caught on camera on a busy Brooklyn street.“The perpetrators know that the police can rarely chase and this emboldens them even more. If they are even caught, no bail. It’s a win-win for the bad guys,” he added.
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NYPD detectives union blames lefty Democrats for NYC crime wave
The Detectives’ Endowment Association is out with a scathing new ad laying blame for the city’s crime wave at the feet of liberal New York lawmakers.
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NYPD detectives union blames lefty Democrats for NYC crime wave
By
Julia Marsh
September 28, 2021 11:03am
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New ad from NYC Detectives Union blames crime on city lawmakers
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The Detectives’ Endowment Association is out with a scathing new ad laying blame for the city’s crime wave at the feet of liberal New York lawmakers.
“The disturbing rise of violent crimes across New York City should stand as a glaring sign to New York City politicians that their failing reforms are killing New Yorkers,” union head Paul DiGiacomo told The Post about the two-minute social media spot.
“Dangerous policies like immediate release are putting violent suspects back onto the streets within hours of committing a crime,” DiGiacomo said.
“The politicians are putting criminals back on the streets,” the ad continues, alongside a photo of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who led the passage of New York’s bail reforms.
Immediate or supervised release lets defendants free before trial under the care of case managers.
The Detectives’ Endowment Association is blaming New York City’s crime wave on liberal politicians.DEAA January 2021 report by the mayor’s office found that only 3 percent of people awaiting trial on supervised release were re-arrested on felony charges. But the reforms mean that over 1,000 more people are out of jail during that period, increasing the number of serious crimes committed.
Mayor Bill de Blasio first launched the program in 2013 and the City Council and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance expanded it with millions more in funding this year in response to the state’s bail reform. The new law limits the types of offenses for which judges can require bail.
The detectives’ ad highlights recent violence like the pregnant mom killed in Harlem this month by her boyfriend who has nine prior arrests.
Shanice Young, 31, was fatally shot in the head after her baby shower in Harlem.DEA 
Paul DiGiacomo is the President of the Detectives’ Endowment Association.DEA“Detectives are working to keep New Yorkers safe,” the ad says, noting 3,500 gun arrests so far this year.
Three-quarters of those arrested for gun-related crimes by city detectives have been released from pre-trial detention, according to DiGiacomo.
NYPD officials did not respond to requests to independently verify the numbers.
Paul DiGiacomo said that NYC’s rising crime “should stand as a glaring sign to New York City politicians that their failing reforms are killing New Yorkers”DEAReps for Heastie, Stewart-Cousins, de Blasio and the City Council leadership did not return messages seeking comment.
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7 hurt, 2 critically, in overnight NYC shootings
There were at least seven people hurt — including two critically — in five separate incidents as gunfire erupted across NYC overnight, authorities said.
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7 hurt, 2 critically, in overnight NYC shootings
By
Amanda Woods and
Steven Vago
September 29, 2021 4:26pm
Updated
Police at the scene of a shooting at 189 W. 89th St. in Manhattan
At least seven people were hurt — two critically — in five separate incidents as gunfire erupted across the Big Apple overnight, authorities said.
A 17-year-old boy was blasted in the chest on Gates Avenue near Patchen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
He described hearing shots and feeling pain, and was taken to Maimonides Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
Earlier in the evening, a 21-year-old man was shot in the head on Livonia Avenue near Wyona Street in New Lots around 6:50 p.m., cops said.
He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, also with critical injuries. The circumstances of that shooting were unclear.
Another Tuesday evening shooting on the Upper West Side captured the attention of Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, who lives nearby.
A 27-year-old man was shot in the chest and a 40-year-old woman in the right hand outside NYCHA’s West Side Urban Renewal (WSUR) complex on Amsterdam Avenue near West 89th Street at about 8:40 p.m., according to cops.
Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa at the scene of a double shooting at 189 W. 89th Street in Manhattan.William C. Lopez/NY Post 
Police inspect a gun near the UWS double shooting.William C. Lopez/NY PostBoth were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside with non-life-threatening injuries.
A third victim, a 39-year-old man who was shot three times in his right leg and once in his left elbow, walked in to Harlem Hospital around 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Sliwa, who lives nearby, tweeted a video of himself lying on the ground next to a parked car — and said he found the gun used in the shooting.
At a Wednesday press conference, Sliwa said the shooting appeared to stem from a drug deal.
The two shot on the UWS suffered non-life-threatening injuries.William C. Lopez/NY Post“It’s indicative of the Wild West nature of what has become of the Upper West Side,” he added. “Just a week ago a man in his 80s was stabbed and almost killed outside a deli just a few blocks north of here. And in and around Frederick Douglass Housing Complex … there have been a regular series of shootings and revenge shootings that have plagued this area.”
“This is a newfound problem for the Upper West Side.”
Sliwa also condemned plans to prematurely set free dozens of Rikers Island inmates from the out-of-control jail — saying the releases could lead to crime spikes in neighborhoods like the Upper West Side.
Curtis Sliwa condemned the recent crimes on the UWS.William C. Lopez/NY Post“If you were a criminal, where would you come?” he said. “You would come where there is money, where victims are well-heeled — Upper West Side, Upper East Side [and] parts before where you randomly saw this activity that is now affecting the entire city. I hold Bill de Blasio personally responsible for taking a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball and destroying this city.”
Later Tuesday night, a 35-year-old man was shot in the leg on 36th Avenue near 23rd Street, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City around 11:10 p.m., authorities said.
He reported hearing shots and feeling pain, and was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition.
A 21-year-old was shot in the head near Livonia Avenue in Brooklyn.Wayne Carrington 
The 21-year-old is now facing critical injuries after the shooting.Wayne CarringtonThe gunplay continued around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, when a 25-year-old man was shot in the leg on Walton Avenue near East 168th Street in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, authorities said.
He was taken to BronxCare Health System by private means, in stable condition, cops said.
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Too young to die: 21 kids killed in NYC street violence so far this year
The city’s deadly scourge of street violence has claimed at least 21 children so far this year — more than triple the number for the same period in both 2019 and 2020, according to a Post analysis …
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Too young to die: 21 kids killed in NYC street violence so far this year
By
Tina Moore,
Craig McCarthy and
Gabrielle Fonrouge
October 1, 2021 9:23pm
Updated
The city’s deadly scourge of street violence has claimed at least 21 children so far this year — more than triple the number for the same period in both 2019 and 2020, according to a Post analysis of NYPD data.
This year’s grim figure involves kids between the ages of 10 and 17 who were killed by either guns or knives between January and Sept. 30. By comparison, the NYPD reported six children under age 18 shot to death in the first nine months of 2020, while in 2019, five were slain in gun violence and stabbings, the numbers show.
“I am left with a hole in my heart that I don’t know how to explain,” said Juliana Gopie-Sanon, whose 17-year-old son, Bryan Sanon, was struck by a stray bullet when he was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street one Saturday morning in March.
“Those nights I think about how I will never see my son, I just break down,” the 49-year-old mother told The Post on Friday. “Innocent kids are being killed in the street.”
Some of the young victims of the city bloodshed were caught up in gang violence, the intended targets of crimes. Others were simply caught in crossfire, such as Sanon.
Bryan Sanon was shot dead in Canarsie earlier this year.Michael Dalton“This coming October, [Bryan] would have been 18 years old and this is one of the hardest things to deal with right now,” his mother said. “It’s really, really painful.”
Christopher Herrmann, a shootings and homicide expert from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said, “It’s always easy to blame” the proliferation of guns available on the street for the violence.
But the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction in programs aimed at keeping kids safe and initiatives such as bail reform are also playing a role.
New York Post cover for Oct. 2, 2021.“The pandemic leads to unemployment, leads to financial insecurity, leads to housing insecurity, food shortage, all of that stuff leads to mental-health stressors, and once we see mental health stressors go up, you see violence go up,” Herrmann said.
He added that remote learning amid the pandemic also could have given kids more free time during the day to be on the street — and such a change in routine can affect behavior.
“Staying home from school or going to school, it’s going to change the way they operate, it’s going to change the places where they are and the times they are doing things,” he said.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, the former chair of the City Council’s Police Oversight Committee, said the pandemic created a void in the lives of Big Apple kids that gangs noticed and exploited.
“I warned about this when the pandemic hit and we talked about the budget and we talked about slashing the summer jobs and parks program,” Donovan said. “The problem is, the gangs already got ahold of them, we lost a whole year.
Donovan Richards said gangs have been able to exploit younger kids during the pandemic. Kevin C. Downs“Somebody’s gotta fill the void for these kids, and the gangs did … The gangs snatched these kids up.
“We’re in a state of catching up, and we’re in a state of emergency, quite honestly.”
Police sources also pointed to the 2017 “Raise the Age” law — which requires 16- and 17-year-olds charged with violent crimes to be tried as juveniles — as having “emboldened” gangs to commit more bloodshed.
“The gang members are allowing the younger people to do the shooting because there’s less consequences for them, especially if it’s a first, second or third offense,” a source said of the law, which took effect in October 2018 for 16-year-olds and in October 2019 for 17-year-olds.
“They say, ‘You traumatize a 16-year-old kid when you put them in jail with a grown man’ — but they’re out there doing grown-man things.”
A Bronx cop claimed another issue is the NYPD’s hyper-focus on optics and its tendency to pander to elected officials who politicize crime-fighting and disregard victims.
“The NYPD lost its way in what truly matters to the public, which is making New Yorkers feel safe,” the source griped.
“The NYPD wants better community policing, but when a cop is filmed playing basketball in uniform with kids, it’s looked down upon, and all the cops are waiting by the printer to see when is that same cop getting suspended for having too much fun on the job,” he said.
Police at the scene of a shooting in Bed-Stuy.William C. Lopez/NYPOST“The NYPD cares too much what other people think and about how the NYPD looks rather than worrying about how the NYPD is actually helping people.”
When asked for comment, City Hall rep Bill Neidhardt said gun arrests are up 37 percent so far this year compared to 2020 and 30 percent over 2019’s figure.
“The death of one child is too many and an outright tragedy,” Neidhardt said.
“New York City is committed to getting guns off the street in record numbers and invest billions in communities, which is the most effective way to fight back crime. We still have more work to do and will never give up.”
But for the families who’ve lost their children to gun violence, it’s too little too late.
“Do better, just do better,” said Antonio Turnage, 42, whose 16-year-old nephew, Jaden Turnage, was fatally shot in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
“There aren’t enough resources, especially in low-income neighborhoods, so they are out in the streets joining gangs, shootings,” he said.
16-year-old fatally shot in Brooklyn
“We need more resources for these kids because they don’t seem to care about life, their life or anybody’s life,” Turnage said.
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1 killed and 1 injured in overnight NYC shootings
The deadly gunfire erupted at about 1:30 a.m. in South Ozone Park, Queens, where a 31-year-old man was found shot multiple times in the back.
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1 killed and 1 injured in overnight NYC shootings
By
Dean Balsamini
October 2, 2021 11:32am
One man was killed and another hurt in two separate shootings across New York City overnight, police said.
The deadly gunfire erupted at about 1:30 a.m. in South Ozone Park, Queens, where a 31-year-old man was found shot multiple times in the back at the corner of 134th Street and Rockaway Boulevard. The victim was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Police are probing whether the victim may have been involved in a shootout with another man, or had been playing an illegal dice game involving 10 to 12 people, the NYPD said. There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.
Thirty minutes earlier in Brooklyn, at 1 a.m., a 29-year-old man was shot in the right ankle on Franklin Avenue, near Lexington Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. The “very uncooperative” victim was taken to Methodist Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said. There are no arrests.
The deadly gunfire erupted at about 1:30 a.m.Seth Gottfried 
Police are probing whether the victim may have been involved in a shootout with another man.Seth Gottfried
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Early morning NYC shootings leave one dead, three others injured
Four people were shot, one of them fatally, in separate violent incidents Sunday morning in Brooklyn and The Bronx, cops said.
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Early morning NYC shootings leave one dead, three others injured
By
Tina Moore
October 3, 2021 3:10pm
Updated
Four people were shot, one of them fatally, in separate violent incidents Sunday morning in Brooklyn and The Bronx, cops said.
A suspect blasted a 22-year-old man multiple times in his chest around 1 a.m. in the lobby of 180 Troy Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, according to police. EMS rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital, but he was pronounced dead a short time later, cops said.
The suspect was described as a man wearing a gray hoodie and blue jeans, police said.
About a half hour before that, a 43-year-old man was shot in the chest and right arm in the basement at 3128 Hull Ave. in Bushwick, Brooklyn, cops said. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital and is expected to survive, cops said.
Police had no description of the shooter, and investigators were canvassing the area for video.
The victim was rushed to the hospital but he was pronounced dead a short time later,Seth GottfriedThen around 2 a.m., a teenager was shot two times in the back at Bruckner Boulevard and Wilkinson Avenue in the Pelham Bay area of The Bronx, cops said. The 17-year-old victim told cops he was walking when he heard shots and felt pain, police said.
He was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, cops said.
Several hours later, at about 7:30 a.m., bullets flew at 1280 Greene Ave. in Bushwick after a 51-year-old man became involved in a dispute with another man, cops said. The victim was not cooperating with investigators, and it wasn’t clear what the fight was over, police said.
The suspect was described as a man wearing a gray hoodie and blue jeans.Seth Gottfried
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‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge
Thanks to a citywide shoplifting tsunami, bare necessities are now rare luxuries on drug-store shelves across New York City — and the blame goes straight to the halls of power in Albany, NYPD’…
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‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge
By
Kerry J. Byrne,
Paula Froelich and
Ben Blanchet
October 9, 2021 11:22am
Updated
Thanks to a citywide shoplifting tsunami, bare necessities are now rare luxuries on drug-store shelves across New York City.
“It looks like the Third World,” bemoaned one Manhattan resident, after eyeing the aisles of a CVS on Sixth Avenue in Soho desperately low of toothpaste, face wash and hand sanitizer, among a long list of other items.
“They’ve all been stolen,” a CVS employee told The Post.
State bail reform laws make shoplifting a promising career option for some New York City crooks. One man, Isaac Rodriguez, 22, of Queens, was arrested for shoplifting 46 times this year alone, The Post exclusively reported last week.
The blame goes straight to the halls of power in Albany, said New York City top cop Dermot Shea.
“Insanity,” the police commissioner tweeted last week in response to The Post report. “No other way to describe the resulting crime that has flowed from disastrous bail reform law.”
Ninth Precinct police officers stand guard inside the Duane Reade on Avenue B and East 2nd St., where certain items are kept locked.Helayne SeidmanSerial shoplifters, even if arrested, typically walk free the same day. Cases against them are often not prosecuted. Drug stores, filled with aisles of small necessities, offer an easy-to-harvest goldmine for thieves.
Rodriguez allegedly stole from Walgreens stores 37 times, lifting everything from protein drinks to soap, baby formula and body lotions, often simply filling up a bag with items then walking out the front door without paying.
There are 77 other thieves right now walking the streets of New York with rap sheets of 20 or more shoplifting charges, NYPD sources say.
As of Sept. 12, the city has seen 26,385 complaints of retail theft — the most ever recorded (going back to 1995). It’s a 32 percent spike from last year (20,024) and 38 percent surge from 2014 (19,166).
Post reporters visited a dozen CVS, Duane Reade/Walgreens and Rite Aid stores around the city and found the same shocking situation in all of them.
Large swaths of barren shelves, in some cases frighteningly empty of almost every imaginable need: cereal, batteries, hand wash, diapers, paper goods and baby formula.
Good luck finding tampons. Each Post visit revealed almost none on the shelves. Displays of relative luxuries such as lipstick and shoe polish also looked neglected.
Only 12 of 57 paper goods listed on price displays at a CVS on 50th Avenue in Long Island City were in stock. About 8 in 10 clothing detergents were missing from the shelves of a Rite Aid on Broadway in Astoria; as were all 27 varieties of Ensure nutrition drinks and all 15 types of Irish Spring soap and body wash.
State bail reform laws make shoplifting a promising career option for some New York City crooks.Helayne SeidmanTwo cops stood sentinel inside the doors of the Duane Reade at the corner of Avenue B and East Second Street on the Lower East Side this week.
“There’s a lot of theft here,” one of the officers said, adding that they’ve made guard duty at the store part of their neighborhood patrol efforts.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that retailers are the target of a $45 billion organized crime theft spree, with lifted goods often being resold on Amazon.
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Three people injured in separate shooting across NYC overnight
At least three people were shot in gunplay across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.
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Three people injured in separate shooting across NYC overnight
By
Dean Balsamini
October 16, 2021 3:07pm
Updated
At least three people were shot in gunplay across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.
In Brooklyn, a 39-year-old man was shot in the back outside Nostrand Avenue near Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 6:15 a.m., police said. The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Less than 30 minutes earlier in the Bronx, a 25-year-old man was shot in the left leg on Wheeler Avenue, near Elder Avenue, police said. The circumstances behind the shooting were “unclear,” cops said, and the victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center by private means.
Another shooting occurred at about 1:35 a.m. Saturday when a 43-year-old man was shot in the right hip along Morris Avenue in the Bronx, police said. The victim told police he heard gunshots and then felt pain. He was transported to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
There are no arrests in any of the shootings, police said.
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Subway crime rate jumps amid 50 percent increase in thefts
According to the NYPD there were 96 grand larcenies in the subway system last month compared to 64 in August and 55 in July, according to the NYPD.
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Subway crime rate jumps amid 50 percent increase in thefts
By
David Meyer
October 17, 2021 5:27pm
Updated
A 50 percent surge in thefts targeting city straphangers drove an overall increase in felony subway crime in September, according to new NYPD stats set to be shared at Monday’s MTA board meeting.
There were 96 grand larcenies in the subway system last month compared to 64 in August and 55 in July, according to the NYPD. Subway robberies also jumped in September by 18 percent, to 52 robberies from 44 in August, the stats show.
The crimes helped fuel an overall 25 percent increase in felonies committed in the system from August to last month.
The New York City Police Department is asking the public to help identify this man in connection to a grand larceny on September 3, 2021.NYPD 
Police are also looking this man in connection to grand larceny that occurred along the MTA “7” train line.NYPDMeanwhile, felony assault in the subways has remained steady after a frightening headline-generating surge in May.
This man is wanted in connection to an incident on the 7 MTA line after he stole a 64-year-old man’s cellphone. NYPDMay’s list of assaults included a 35-minute slashing spree on multiple subway lines that injured five early-morning commuters. The spree spurred a war of words between then-MTA Interim Transit President Sarah Feinberg and Mayor Bill de Blasio, with Feinberg accusing the mayor of “negligence on the issue.”
De Blasio responded by increasing the number cops on duty on the subways during the morning and afternoon rush hours, which both the MTA and city cited as reducing the crime rate in June and July.
September saw felony assaults drop by one, from 35 to 34 incidents, over August. Police reported no murders, rapes or burglaries in the system last month.
“The stats show what New Yorkers coming back to transit in record numbers know: subways are safer than most places in the city,” MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said in a statement. “Crime came down this summer, and has stayed low, because the NYPD surged officers and the MTA put cameras in every station.”
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One killed, four injured in overnight NYC shootings
One man was killed and four hurt in four shootings across New York City overnight, police said.
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One killed, four injured in overnight NYC shootings
By
Dean Balsamini
October 23, 2021 9:39am
Updated
One man was killed and four hurt in four shootings across New York City overnight, police said.
Deadly gunfire erupted at about 2:10 a.m. Saturday in the Soundview section of the Bronx, where an unidentified adult male was found shot multiple times in the leg inside the Bronx River Houses on Watson Avenue, police said. Cops found the victim unconscious and EMS rushed him to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. There are no arrests.
At the same time in the Bronx, a 28-year-old male was shot once in the right hand outside the Castle Hill Houses on Seward and Castle Hill avenues, police said. The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, cops said. Police said the victim was approached by four men who opened fire. There are no arrests.
Blood was spilled five minutes earlier in the Bronx when a 19-year-old male was shot in the left thigh on East 137th Street near Cypress Avenue in Mott Haven, police said. Cops are looking for two suspects in the 2:05 a.m. shooting. The victim was transported to Lincoln Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Two men were shot near Hegeman Avenue and Bristol Street in Brooklyn on Oct. 22, 2021.Hakim Gibson 
Both victims were taken to Brookdale Hospital.Seth GottfriedThe gunplay began late Friday in Brownsville, Brooklyn, when two men standing along Hegeman Avenue and Bristol Street were shot at about 11:10 p.m., police said. A 41-year-old male was critically injured with a chest wound, and a 60-year-old was struck in the right arm, cops said. Both victims were taken to Brookdale Hospital. There are no arrests.
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Overnight NYC shootings leave at least 3 people injured: cops
One man was shot in the head on Ryer Avenue near East 183rd Street in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx around 8:50 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
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Overnight NYC shootings leave at least 3 people injured: cops
By
Amanda Woods
October 25, 2021 12:42pm
Updated
At least three people were hurt — one critically — in separate overnight shootings across the city, cops said Monday.
A man was shot in the head on Ryer Avenue near East 183rd Street in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx around 8:50 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with life-threatening injuries — and the two suspects fled on a moped, authorities said.
The Ryer Avenue victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with life-threatening injuries.William MillerA little over an hour earlier, an 18-year-old man was shot once in the buttocks on East 147th Street near Concord Avenue in Mott Haven, cops said.
He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in stable condition.
The violence continued Monday morning in Brooklyn — when a 21-year-old man was shot once in the leg on Hancock Street near Ralph Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 3:40 a.m., cops said.
Police are seen at the scene of a shooting at 783 Hancock St.Robert Mecea 
A police officer looks for evidence in a top floor apartment on Hancock St.Robert MeceaHe was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition.
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At least 3 shot, 1 fatally, across NYC overnight
At least three people were shot — one fatally — across the city late Thursday, according to police.
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At least 3 shot, 1 fatally, across NYC overnight
By
Amanda Woods
October 29, 2021 2:58pm
Updated
At least three people were shot — one fatally — across the city late Thursday, according to police.
Cops responded at around 6:50 p.m. to a shots-fired call in an apartment on Hegeman Avenue near Herzl Street, authorities said.
A preliminary investigation determined that two women and one man were inside the apartment, in possession of drug paraphernalia. They were taken into custody, with charges pending.
Police later determined that a firearm was in the apartment, and returned to the apartment to recover it.
There, they found an unidentified male unconscious and unresponsive under a bed, with multiple gunshot wounds to his body.
He was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police found a man unconscious and unresponsive under a bed, with multiple gunshot wounds to his body inside of an apartment at 7 Hegeman Avenue.Hakim GibsonCops believe the victim was an 8 Trey Crip gang member, though that remained under investigation Friday morning.
Then around 9:15 p.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in the left knee on Cumberland Walk, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Ingersoll Houses, cops said.
He reported hearing shots and feeling pain, and was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition.
About two hours later, a woman was shot on East 152nd Street near Wales Avenue in the Melrose section of the Bronx, cops said.
Her injuries were non-life-threatening, and the circumstances of the shooting are unclear.
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NYC overnight shootings leave 5 injured, 1 dead
A 55-year-old man was shot multiple times in Harlem. A 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old were shot as they travelled on a motor scooter in the Bronx.
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NYC overnight shootings leave 6 injured, 1 dead
By
Tina Moore
October 31, 2021 10:16am
Updated
Bullets flew overnight, killing a driver in Harlem and leaving five others wounded across the city, police said Sunday.The 55-year-old man was in a 2017
Dodge Ram when he was shot five times at 147th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard around 3:30 a.m., cops said.
The man, whose identity wasn’t released, had a last known address in Maine, cops said. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital but couldn’t be saved.
“It seems pretty intentional when you shoot somebody five times,” a police source said.
There were no immediate arrests.
A 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old were shot as they travelled on a motor scooter in front of 951 Adee Avenue in the Bronx around 1 a.m., cops said. The shooter rolled up next to their scooter in a late model BMW and started firing, according to police.
The older man suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was in critical condition, cops said. The teenager was shot in the leg and expected to survive.
The driver of a red Dodge Ram was shot at by another vehicle at the intersection of Frederick Douglass Blvd and W 151st Street.Seth GottfriedThere were no immediate arrests in the double shooting.
The first overnight shooting happened just after midnight in the Bronx when a 40-year-old man was shot in the leg during a dispute, cops said.
The man was shot at 680 Balcom Avenue and was rushed to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition.
A male was shot in the vicinity of 315 Harman Street and was transported to Woodhull Hospital.Seth GottfriedPolice took a person of interest into custody, and charges were pending. It wasn’t clear what the argument was over.
A short time later, at around 12:20 a.m. a man walked into Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx with a gunshot wound to the right thigh, police said. He told cops he was shot at Nereid Avenue and Matilda Avenue in Wakefield.
The sixth man was shot around 4:30 a.m. in front of 229th Street and 115th Road in Queens, cops said. The 30-year-old was struck once in the chest and taken to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition.
Two people were shot at the intersection of Adee and Colden Avenues.Seth GottfriedThere were no immediate arrests, cops said.
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Two dead, four injured in overnight NYC shootings
Two people were killed in the Bronx and Brooklyn, respectively — and four others were hurt in separate shootings across the city overnight, police said.
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Two dead, four injured in overnight NYC shootings
By
Dana Kennedy
November 6, 2021 2:39pm
Updated
Two people were killed and four others hurt in separate shootings across the city overnight, police said.
Cops responding to a 911 call just after 11 p.m. Friday found a man on Miller Avenue in Brooklyn who had been shot several times in the torso. He was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center.
About an hour later, at 12:15 a.m., a man was found shot near Rogers Place and East 163 Street in the Bronx, police said. He was pronounced dead at Lincoln Medical Center.
No one has been arrested yet in connection with either killing, police said. Both victims have not yet been publicly identified.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old man was shot once in the butt outside in front of 1775 Eastburn Ave. in Bronx at about 8:12 p.m. Friday night, police said. He was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital for treatment. So far police have no suspects.
The man shot near Rogers Place and East 163rd Street was pronounced dead at Lincoln Medical Center.Christopher Sadowski for NY Post 
No arrest has been made yet in connection with the killing at Rogers Place and East 163rd Street.Christopher Sadowski for NY PostAbout 10 minutes later, a 30-year-old man was shot twice in a fight in the Bronx and taken to Lincoln Medical Center. Police are looking for the suspect, described as a male in a blue jacket, gray jeans and a blue ski mask who ran from the scene.
Just after 10 p.m. Friday in Brooklyn, a 29-year-old man was shot once in his right thigh near 416 Rockaway Parkway. Police said Saturday they had no information about any possible suspect. The victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital.
Police respond to the fatal shooting on Miller Avenue in Brooklyn.Wayne Carringtron for NY PostAnd a man, 26, was shot once in his left knee in a fight near 4th Ave. and 58th Street in Brooklyn. Police are looking for two men who fled in a moped.
The victim was taken to Lutheran Medical Center for treatment.
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8 hurt, 2 critically, in at least 6 overnight NYC shootings
Some of the bloody gun violence involved a dispute inside the Mamajuana Café on East Tremont Avenue near Puritan Avenue in Pelham Bay in The Bronx around 3:15 a.m.
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8 hurt, 2 critically, in at least 6 overnight NYC shootings
By
Amanda Woods
November 12, 2021 12:51pm
Updated
Eight people were hurt — two critically — in at least six shootings that erupted across the Big Apple overnight, authorities said.
Some of the bloody gun violence involved a dispute inside the Mamajuana Café on East Tremont Avenue near Puritan Avenue in Pelham Bay in the Bronx around 3:15 a.m. Friday, cops said.
A 25-year-old man was shot twice in the stomach during the fight and taken to Jacobi Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Two more men, ages 19 and 30, were wounded in the same incident and walked into the hospital, cops said.
The 30-year-old man, who was shot twice in the chest and once in the right leg, is listed in critical condition.
The 19-year-old man, who was shot twice in the stomach, is listed in stable condition and described as highly uncooperative, police said.
Three people were shot in the incident at Mamajuana Café.Seth GottfriedMeanwhile, around 11:20 p.m. Thursday, a 32-year-old man was shot in the stomach at 167th Street and 43rd Avenue in Flushing, Queens, cops said.
A 30-year-old suspect in the shooting fled on foot into Flushing Cemetery, and the victim was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
A little over an hour earlier, a 35-year-old man walked into Harlem Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right leg, cops said.
Police probe the shooting incident at 167th Street in Flushing.William MillerHe was described as highly uncooperative, and police did not have information on where the incident occurred.
And just after 9 p.m. in the Claremont section of the Bronx, a 33-year-old man was shot in the buttocks at the corner of Washington Avenue and Claremont Parkway, cops said.
The gunman fled on an e-bike, and the victim went to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.
Earlier in the evening, a 27-year-old pregnant woman was shot in the neck inside a Lower East Side apartment on Madison Street, part of NYCHA’s Vladeck Houses, cops said.
The 28-year-old suspect — who cops say is known to the victim — shot her around 8:15 p.m., cops said.
There were at least six shootings across the city overnight including the one in Flushing, which an officer is seen responding to.William MillerShe was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition.
Back in Queens, a 49-year-old man was shot once in the wrist on 118th Avenue near 152nd Street in South Jamaica around 6:30 p.m., cops said.
He reported hearing shots and feeling pain and was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
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Three men hurt in NYC shootings overnight
At least three people were hurt in two separate shootings across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.
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Three men hurt in NYC shootings overnight
By
Dean Balsamini
November 13, 2021 10:43am
Updated
At least three people were hurt in two separate shootings across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.
In the latest bloodshed, a 26-year-old man was shot once in the lower abdomen in Brooklyn at about 5:10 a.m. on Bushwick Avenue, near DeKalb Avenue, in Bushwick Saturday, cops said.
The victim told police he heard shots, felt pain and realized he was wounded. He was taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
About three hours earlier in Queens, two men were shot and a suspect taken into custody following a dispute in front of 192-08 Northern Blvd. and 192nd Street in Flushing. In the fracas, a 29-year-old man was shot twice in each leg, while another man, 35, was shot in the back of the head, but escaped with only a graze wound, police said.
A 19-year-old man was arrested by responding cops, an NYPD spokeswoman said.
The two gunshot victims both went to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Charges are pending against the unidentified suspect, police said. It wasn’t immediately known what sparked the shootings.