More than 100 Department of Correction officers turned out Friday at an Upper West Side hospital to applaud the release of a female colleague who was seriously injured after she was punched in the face by a man held on Rikers Island who is accused of also previously attacking an MTA station agent. The officers … Read more
A 14-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in Queens in a possible gang attack, police said Friday. The victim was stabbed in the abdomen around 3:30 p.m. near 38th St. and Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, police said. Medics rushed the boy to Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, but he could not be saved. … Read more
A federal appeals court has rejected fallen R&B star R. Kelly’s bid to overturn his New York sex trafficking and racketeering conviction. Kelly, 58, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, argued through his attorneys that he didn’t run a racketeering enterprise because his employees … Read more
The mother of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in the bathtub of their Brooklyn apartment told police she was baptizing her daughter when the child tragically drowned, prosecutors revealed on Sunday. Mother Karla Espinal, 26, faces charges of felony assault, child endangerment and reckless endangerment after her daughter Madelyne Tavarez’s death at the … Read more
A New York City financier convicted of drugging and raping a teenage girl, creating child sex abuse material and a litany of other offenses committed against minors — including after his arrest — was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his depravity on Tuesday. Michael Olson, 56, who pleaded guilty to a 10-count indictment … Read more
A man’s decomposing body was found hog-tied off a Queens expressway Tuesday morning, police sources said. The grisly discovery was made just before 9 a.m. in the weeds off a section of the Clearview Expressway near Union Turnpike that cuts through Cunningham Park. It’s suspected that the victim had been shot, according to a police … Read more
Three suspects in a recent Queens attempted murder had been hanging out right before the incident in a community anti-violence center just one block away from where they shot and wounded a teen, according to police. Police investigating the attempted murder of a teenager searched the offices of a Jamaica-based anti-violence group for evidence on … Read more
A brazen thief stole an elderly woman’s shopping cart that contained $40,000 in cashier’s checks on Wednesday in the Bronx, police said. The 85-year-old woman was approached by an unidentified man around noon on Marion Ave. and E. 195th St. in Fordham, where the thief snatched her shopping cart, which contained an Apple iPhone and … Read more
A homeless man shoved a 23-year-old woman into the side of a train as it pulled into a Washington Heights station Monday morning in the city’s latest unprovoked subway attack, the NYPD said. The victim apparently never saw her attacker, identified by police as 26-year-old Markeese Brazelis, who came up and pushed her as an uptown … Read more
Two young men were stabbed, one fatally, on a Lower East Side street, cops said Saturday. Amir Smith, 20, was stabbed in the chest on Norfolk St. near Broome St. about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, cops said. Cops found a second victim, a 19-year-old man, with multiple stab wounds to his back, near Delancey and … Read more