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Olinville: Man 26 Hospitalized after Shooting on White Plains Road
A 26-year-old man has been hospitalized following a daylight shooting on Thursday in the Olinville section of The Bronx by Global Evangelical Church. A police spokesperson said the incident occurred at East 217th street and White Plains Road at about 3.51 p.m., adding, “The victim was shot a couple of times, once in the left leg, once in the left thigh, and once on the right foot.”
Queens hotel begins its transformation into affordable housing
The only current fruit of a pandemic-era program designated to create affordable housing is entering the next stage of its development in Queens. The 350-room JFK Hilton is well on its way to becoming perhaps the only byproduct of a program intended to convert hotels into permanent residences for low-income and formerly homeless New Yorkers, according to Gothamist. The property — located next to the Belt Parkway, just outside JFK Airport — was one of many to be rendered vacant during COVID-19, and was selected for the first to be repurposed under a 2021 state law called the Housing Our Neighbors with...
NYC mom charged with murder in shocking beating death of 6-year-old who begged for her life: cops
A Bronx mom was charged with murder in the brutal beating death of her 6-year-old daughter – who neighbors say had begged for her life before her shocking end, cops said. Lynija Eason-Kumar, 23, was arrested Thursday in connection to the early-morning May 26, 2023 slaying of little Jalayah Eason inside the family’s squalid apartment at NYCHA’s Forest Houses, according to authorities. The mother had initially told cops she found the girl cold and not breathing inside a closet in their 12th-floor unit on East 165th Street, sources said at the time. Eason-Kumar claimed she tried to administer CPR, but Jalayah would not...
Man killed while confronting robber in the Bronx, police say
FORDHAM, the Bronx (PIX11) — A man was shot and killed while confronting a robber in the Bronx Tuesday night, police said. The shooting happened at the intersection of East Fordham Road and Morris Avenue in Fordham just before 9:50 p.m., according to police. It unfolded as two brothers confronted a man who robbed one […]
Vehicular homicide while DUI: New York man sentenced up to 20 years for fatal 2022 crash
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — On April 17, Jagminder Singh, a New York truck driver, pled guilty to a fatal I-76 crash that killed two victims in December 2022. Singh will be sentenced to 7 to 20 years in prison after appearing in Lancaster County Court. Police records show...
Woman found stabbed to death in bathtub in East Harlem: NYPD
EAST HARLEM, N.Y. (PIX11) — An arrest has been made in connection to the death of a woman who was found with multiple stab wounds on Tuesday, according to the NYPD. Candido Rodriguez, 51, of Manhattan, was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the first […]
NYC wild animals are New Yorkers too: ‘Give them plenty of space’
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A coyote in Central Park and a whale under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge are just a couple of the thousands of animal species that call New York City home. “Most of NYC’s wildlife is not dangerous; however, maintaining a safe distance is the best way to protect your safety and the safety […]
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