No damage had been reported by late Sunday afternoon from the earthquake that rocked New Jersey and environs Saturday night, though aftershocks were still a possibility. “No further impacts reported at this time,” NYCEM spokesperson Aries Dela Cruz told the Daily News in an email Sunday. The magnitude 3 quake, generally considered to be a … Read more
A driver struck and killed a 47-year-old pedestrian crossing a Brooklyn street, then left the scene, police said Sunday. The crash happened around 3:45 a.m. on Saturday at Broadway and Suydam St., on the Bedford-Stuyvesant-Bushwick border, cops said. Police found the man dead at the scene, then determined that an unknown vehicle struck him while … Read more
Two men were wounded, one fatally, in a spray of bullets during a gathering in a Brooklyn playground early Sunday, police said. The victims were hanging out in Powell Playground on Glenmore Ave. near Powell St. in Brownsville when shots rang out about 12:35 a.m., police said. Medics rushed a 42-year-old man shot in the … Read more
Oswald Peraza‘s tenure in New York is over. The Yankees traded the struggling infielder to the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday and quickly replaced him by trading Everson Pereira to the Rays for infielder Jose Caballero, the team announced Thursday. In return, the Bombers received minor-league outfielder Wilberson De Pena and international money. The deal … Read more
Mikal Bridges finally got his deal. The Knicks and the star forward agreed to a four-year, $150 million deal on Thursday, league sources told The Daily News. ESPN’s Shams Charania was the first to break the news. The deal includes a player option for the 2029-30 NBA season and a trade kicker. Which means New … Read more
Sebije Nelovic is the one who got away — the cleaner who dodged death as the Park Ave. shooter opened fire on her but missed. She somehow managed to flee and hid in a supply closet, where she stayed for nearly three hours until police pulled her out. The 65-year-old employee of Rudin Management was … Read more
One of the suspects accused of engaging in a gruesome torture plot inside a SoHo townhouse to retrieve an Italian man’s Bitcoin password was released from Rikers Island on a $1 million bond Thursday, according to online jail records. Jonathan Woeltz, 37, posted the mammoth sum a week after a Manhattan judge agreed to release … Read more
A New Jersey school bus driver was charged Monday after allegedly leaving a 4-year-old special needs student unaccompanied on a parked bus for more than two hours. The alleged incident occurred on July 10 when staff at Valley View Elementary School in Towaco noticed the student hadn’t arrived to school, according to the Morris County … Read more
A Blackstone executive and mother of two, a “beloved” security guard, a Cornell graduate and an NYPD officer survived by his pregnant wife and sons have been identified as the four victims fatally shot inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper on Monday. Gunfire erupted inside the Park Ave. office tower, which is owned by Rudin Management … Read more
Andrew Cuomo believes Monday’s mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan will bring public safety to the forefront of this year’s mayoral race — and is already citing the tragedy in painting Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani as someone who would be ill-equipped to oversee the NYPD. Cuomo, who’s running as an independent against Mamdani in November’s mayoral … Read more