Police were investigating Wednesday after finding a woman dead in a Queens house. NYPD officials said officers responded to the two-story home on Hancock Street near Cypress Avenue in Ridgewood after getting a 911 call around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. When the officers arrived, they found the 48-year-old woman unconscious and unresponsive. Emergency medical workers pronounced her dead at the scene. Police said she had no visible injuries or trauma to her body.
A box truck slammed into a parked van in Manhattan on Monday afternoon, sending the van onto the sidewalk where it struck a group of pedestrians, leaving one person critically injured, according to the NYPD. The truck was heading north on Eighth Avenue when it hit the unoccupied van near West 30th Street around 4 p.m., police said. The force of the crash pushed the van over the curb and into a crowd of people on the sidewalk.
A man is on the run after attacking a woman in her Upper West Side home on Sunday night, a police spokesperson told West Side Rag. The attacker broke into a woman's apartment around 10:15 p.m. near Amsterdam Avenue and West 64th Street, before choking her and punching her in the face multiple times, police said. He then grabbed the woman's keys and fled the apartment in an unknown direction, NYPD added.
A police officer at a shooting scene. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Manhattan detectives are looking for the suspect who shot a man in the back outside an apartment building on Wednesday night. Police said the shooting happened just after 9 p.m. on Oct. 8 in front of 360 West 127th St., off St. Nicholas Terrace, in Manhattanville. Officers from the 26th Precinct responded to the scene and found the victim, a 26-year-old man, with a single gunshot wound to his back.
Police say the DSNY workers were clearing trash from an area on the eastern side of the park along Brookville Boulevard near 149th Avenue when one of them grabbed a garbage bag and was about to toss it into the hopper of their truck when he caught a whiff of a foul odor emanating from inside the bag at around 7 a.m., and they called it in to the NYPD.
Police say 21-year-old James Korakis, of 9th Avenue in Whitestone, was riding a BMW motorcycle northbound on the Cross Island Parkway service road near 157th Street just after 7 p.m. when he collided with a Mine Cooper driven by a 28-year-old man who was also traveling northbound on the service road. The impact of the crash sent the motorcycle into two parked and unoccupied vehicles, a Toyota Rav4 and a Chevy Impala, police said.