A Manhattan paralegal was fatally stabbed by his girlfriend inside his Bronx apartment, police said Tuesday. Dwayne Valentine, 40, was stabbed in the chest at his home on Grand Ave. near W. 190th St. at about 11:05 p.m. Monday, cops said. He died at the scene. “Dwayne was a remarkable young man, smart, very quiet and … Read more
A young man was fatally struck in the head by a stray bullet while paying a visit to the Bronx convenience store where he used to work, shocked friends and relatives said Thursday. Daoud “David” Marji was walking back to Unk Candy and Grocery on University Ave. near W. Kingsbridge Road after grabbing a vape pen … Read more
A New York City private equity attorney was accused of drugging, restraining and beating six women — including savage attacks with shock collars and cattle prods intended for livestock — in a bombshell indictment filed in Manhattan on Thursday. The charges were unveiled against Ryan Hemphill, 43, in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he was arraigned … Read more
Earth Day environmental activists defaced Lower Manhattan’s iconic Charging Bull statue Tuesday, then rushed to clean it up before cops arrived, officials said. Videos on social media and photographs from the scene show a handful of Extinction Rebellion activists spray-painting “Greed=Death” onto the flank of the life-size Arturo Di Modica sculpture on Broadway near Morris … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of President Trump’s administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals. The disparate events ranged from a march through Midtown Manhattan and a rally in front of the White House to a … Read more
A 38-year-old mentally ill woman and her 8-year-old autistic son mysteriously died in a Bronx home, leaving her 4-year-old traumatized daughter alone in the apartment with the two corpses for several days, police said Saturday. The little girl was heard “screaming for days” inside the E. 231st St. home near White Plains Road in Wakefield … Read more
As the Trump administration escalates its campaign against international students and Palestinian activists, Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly refuting the idea that the president’s efforts are actually about fighting antisemitism. After Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at his U.S. citizenship test in Vermont, a group of his Israeli classmates penned a letter against his … Read more
A 61-year-old man sleeping under a box truck parked on a Bronx street was killed early Thursday when the driver pulled out of the spot, not knowing anyone was beneath the vehicle, police said. The victim was run over by the Hino 338 truck on Coster St. near Randall Ave. in Hunts Point at about … Read more
One man was killed, and two others injured Wednesday in a bloody brawl inside an upper Manhattan deli, police said. Police responded to a call of an assault around 5:30 p.m. near Broadway and W. 212th St. in Inwood — where a 24-year-old man was found outside the Ameer Deli and Grill, fatally stabbed in … Read more
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday called on Bronx and Manhattan prosecutors to crack down on recidivist criminals going through their courts and “reevaluate any blanket policies” that put them back on the streets without consequences. “These [blanket policies] are not isolated mistakes or unintended consequences,” Tisch said at the City Law Breakfast at New … Read more