The city is planning to put panic buttons linked to the NYPD in about 500 bodegas across the five boroughs, the mayor and police commissioner announced Sunday. Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the city will allocate $1.6 million through an emergency grant to the United Bodegas of America, as part of the … Read more
A Hatzolah volunteer EMT struck and critically injured a 19-year-old man while responding to a call in Brooklyn, police sources said Sunday. The 39-year-old driver was behind the wheel of a smart car for the ambulance service, going north on McDonald Ave., lights and sirens on, when he struck the pedestrian as he was crossing … Read more
Three men in a white Lexus robbed a man at gunpoint in the Bronx about two blocks away from Yankee Stadium, and took a bag filled with $12,500 cash, police said Sunday. The 53-year-old victim was getting out of his car near Gerard Ave. and E. 157th St. just after 11 a.m. Friday when the … Read more
Jill Sobule’s friends believed the singer-songwriter escaped their house amid a blaze that killed the “Supermodel” singer in Minnesota early Thursday, as authorities try to establish whether Sobule died before or amid the fire. The couple, whose names have not been released, rushed out of the suburban St. Paul home upon realizing it was ablaze, at … Read more
A fired New York City firefighter charged in the drug-fueled drunk driving death of a Queens airport worker was released from jail Friday — and the victim’s family is livid. Michael Peña, 28, was sent to Rikers Island weeks after cops said he sped his Mercerdes through a red light and t-boned a BMW driven … Read more
Harvey Weinstein accuser Miriam Haley broke down in tears and cursed on the witness stand Friday as a defense lawyer questioned her account of the former Hollywood mogul forcing oral sex on her nearly two decades ago. “He was the one who raped me, not the other way around,” Haley told jurors. “That is for … Read more
UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs and closing some facilities as the delivery company reduces the amount of Amazon packages it handles. The company said it plans to conduct the layoffs before the end of the year and close 73 facilities in buildings it owns or leases by the end of June — with more closings … Read more
A man accused of raping and robbing a corpse in a Manhattan subway car violated the dead body for nearly a half hour — pausing only when the train pulled into stations to let passengers on and off, prosecutors said Tuesday. Victim Jorge Gonzalez, 37, had only been dead for about 30 minutes before Felix … Read more
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
Mariah Carey won’t like the way the protagonist is portrayed in “The Last Living Diva.” Matthew Stevens, who worked for Carey for a year, spent seven years recuperating from the nightmare and writing a work of fiction loosely based on his experience. Stevens was one of three assistants who were part of a staff of … Read more