Police said the fiery attack occurred at 3:10 a.m. on Dec. 1 on board a Harlem-bound 3 train traveling between the 34th Street-Penn Station and Times Square-42nd Street stops. Law enforcement sources said the unidentified perpetrator approached the dozing man, aged 55, and used an unidentified substance to set fire to the victim's lower body. The victim managed to exit the train at Times Square-42nd Street and seek assistance.
Law enforcement sources said the gunfire erupted outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Houses at 21 West 112th St. just before 2:10 p.m. on Nov. 30. Officers from the 28th Precinct and NYPD PSA 5 responded to the location after receiving reports of a person shot there. Upon arriving at the scene, authorities said, the cops came upon the victim, a 48-year-old woman who sustained a gunshot wound to her thigh.
Those involved in the UFC 322 brawl earlier this month, including Dillon Danis, Abubakar Nurmagomedov, and "John Pork" (Magomed Zaynukov), are not off the hook just yet. Nurmagomedov and Zaynukov were among a small army of fighters who opted to jump Danis at the event at Madison Square Garden on November 15. The incident transpired years after Khabib Nurmagomedov attacked Danis follwing his UFC 229 main event, and came about as a result of trash talk the American had participated in online.
In a Manhattan Supreme Court filing made on Wednesday, attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo claims she hasn't received any documents from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to corroborate a statement made by Mangione's mother, Kathleen Mangione, that shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson might be something that she could see him doing. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny claimed at a press conference that Mangione's mom made the statement at a Dec. 7 interview with San Francisco detectives,
Brooklyn's Jewish community wakes up to two swastikas at Magen David Yeshiva in Gravesend. While @NYPDHateCrimes investigates, the Mayor-elect must unequivocally condemn this hateful graffiti...Time to represent and protect ALL New Yorkers. pic.twitter.com/tT01SbJq6K - Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) November 5, 2025
Police in the Bronx are investigating the death of a 53-year-old woman found in her Norwood apartment Thursday afternoon after a neighbor requested a wellness check, authorities said. Officers from the 52nd Precinct responded around 4:39 p.m. to 115 East Mosholu Parkway North, where they discovered the woman unconscious and unresponsive, police said. EMS pronounced her dead at the scene.
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 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.