Second Avenue and East 123rd Street, opposite Wagner Houses, NYCHA, in East Harlem. ( Photos: Google Maps, Straus News markup) Two Teens Charged with Attempted Murder after East Harlem Gunfight The dramatic surge in teen-involved violence continues, this time, again, with a gunfight in East Harlem, in the 25th Precinct.... News 22 Sep 2025 | 12:34
Left: Times Square subway station; Right: Nicholas Fuelling Wanted flyer. ( Photo: Brian Berger, NYPD) Bomb Scare Suspect Indicted; Hells Kitchen Sublet Scammer Surrenders The alleged Times Square bomb scare suspect, Desean Maryat, 26, was indicted on Friday September 19, Manhattan District Attorney... News 21 Sep 2025 | 06:19
Downtown entrance to the 1 train at 145th Street. ( Photo: MTA) West Harlem ‘1’ Train Subway Stabber Indicted for July Attack Just like waiting for the arrival of a subway train, sometimes the people have to wait for justice. That’s one lesson to be... News 21 Sep 2025 | 04:46
Two surveillance shots of a man wanted for attempted rape on Labor Day near Broadway and West 36th Street. The shirt on the left may have been turned inside out. ( Photos: NYPD) Attempted Rape in Midtown; Man Indicted for Brutal Sex Assault Labor Day brought news of a sexual assault, this one in the early evening hours within the confines of Midtown South, which... News 15 Sep 2025 | 06:51
Moka & Co at 142 W. 34th St., site of vicious slashing; (left); Suspect arrested and arraigned for attempted rape (right). ( Photos: discoverwithme12 TikTok; NYPD) Coffee Shop Slasher Indicted; Attempted Labor Day Rapist Caught The man suspected of viciously slashing a Moka & Co. coffee shop employee on August 20, 2025, Wagner Louis, has been indicted... News 15 Sep 2025 | 01:08
Alleged rapist Anthony Smith on Aug. 10, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Alleged Hell’s Kitchen Rapist Arrested on Lower East Side A suspect in the recent assault and attempted rape of a 21-year-old woman in Times Square has been arrested. To the surprise... News 17 Aug 2025 | 06:27
Left: Uptown 1 station at 50th Street where a pedetrician from the UWS was violently shoved onto tracks but saved by Good Samaritans who helped him climb out of tracks before a train arrived. Right: Miguel Mora (top) and Christian Aybar face new state charges in Inwood shooting. ( Photos: Left: Brian Berger; Right: SDNY) UWS Doc Saved after Shove onto Tracks; 2 Migrants Indicted in Inwood Officer Shooting An Upper West Side resident doctor was shoved to the tracks while waiting for an uptown 1 train at 7th Avenue and 50th Street... News 11 Aug 2025 | 11:42
While waiting for the uptown 4 and 5 train, a 51-year-old man was attacked by a person on the platform. The suspect was apprehended. ( Photo: Brian Berger) SoHo Rapist Pleads Guilty; Man Indicted for Hate Crime at Fulton St. Station A 32-year-old has pleaded guilty to strangling and raping a woman he followed into her SoHo apartment in April 2024. The attack... News 29 Jul 2025 | 11:56
Left: Broadway at Cedar Street looking toward Red Cube; Right: Busted in Washington Square. ( Photos: Brian Berger, NYPD) E-Biker Attacks DOT Worker; Drug Bust in Washington Sq. Park In a shocking clash of common interests, an employee of the very e-bike friendly NYC Department of Transportation was slashed... News 21 Jul 2025 | 08:10
Left: Dana Baraket in October 2023, after tearing down Israeli hostage posters. Right: police say the suspect is wanted for public lewdness in Kips Bay. ( Photos: Stop Antisemitism, NYPD) Woman Assaults Cops in Times Square; Public Lewdness in Kips Bay A woman, Dana Baraket, 19, caught on video tearing down Israeli hostage posters on the Upper West Side in October 2023, has... News 07 Jul 2025 | 04:41
Approximate site of the crash between illegal electric unicycle and bicyclist, June 30, 2025. ( Map: CentralPark.org; Straus News markup) Rider of Illegal Electric Unicycle Badly Injured in Crash with Central Park Bicyclist The war between the speed of high-powered electric vehicles and the more measured human-powered pace of bicyclists and pedestrians... News 06 Jul 2025 | 11:59
Jennifer Guilbeault moments before, and during, her attack on Shohel Mahmud. Markup by Straus News. ( Photos: Reddit) Woman Takes Plea for Pepper- Spraying Muslim Uber Driver The pepper spray madwoman, Jennifer Guilbeault, who wildly attacked a Muslim Uber driver, Shohel Mahmud, on the Upper East... News 24 Apr 2025 | 11:28
The new home of Alex Borders is in the all female women’s prison on Rikers Island after he was unable to post bail. He is charged with bouncing checks for advertisements in glitzy magazines and scamming consumers out of jewelry. ( Photo: nyc.archives) Strange Case of Jewel Thief Who Scammed Conde Nast and Consumers out of $300G One of the city’s glitziest magazine publishers has been ensnared by a scamster who bounced checks for full page ads in Conde... News 14 Nov 2024 | 10:40
Photos presented by the Manhattan DA’s office show collapsed ceilings, broken front door locks and dilapidated halls in Daniel Ohebshalom’s East Village, Hell’s Kitchen, and Washington Heights buildings. ( Photo: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office) NYC’s ‘Worst Landlord,’ Daniel Ohebshalom, Is Charged with Tenant Harassment by D.A. New York City slumlord Daniel Ohebshalom, who is currently jailed on Rikers Island, has been hit with a new set of criminal... News 06 May 2024 | 02:04
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