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Man stabbed repeatedly during broad daylight fight on Queens sidewalk, video shows
A man was stabbed repeatedly in a broad daylight fight on a Queens sidewalk that was captured on security camera, according to police. Surveillance video shows one man using a knee scooter — which can help people with lower body injuries get around — making his way down Broadway in Woodside before 3 p.m., as a woman with a Husky puppy walks beside him. Immediately behind them was a man in a grey hooded sweatshirt who caught up with the and launched his attack, the video showed.
Video shows man attacking Hasidic children in Brooklyn
NEW YORK -- Two young Hasidic boys were attacked without any warning in Brooklyn earlier this week, and the entire incident was caught on video.Police are looking for the attacker.Video shows assault on 2 Hasidic boys in WilliamsburgPolice say it happened just before 9 p.m. Sunday in Williamsburg on Franklin Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle avenues.According to police, two boys, ages 11 and 13, were playing on the sidewalk when a man on a bike stopped and told the boys to get off the sidewalk.Seconds later, for reasons unknown, police say the man viciously assaulted one child, then the other,...
12-year-old girl shot as nearly a dozen kids brawl on NYC sidewalk
A 12-year-old girl was shot after two people opened fire on a group of nearly a dozen children who had been fighting on a Queens sidewalk, according to police. Officers were called to the scene in Jamaica just before 8 p.m. after a group of about 10 kids got involved in some kind of brawl on 160th Street near Tuskegee Airmen Way. As that was going on, two males walked up to the group and shot at them, police said.
NYPD video shows Citi Bike rider who viciously attacked NYC Orthodox Jewish boys
The callous Citi Bike rider who attacked two Orthodox Jewish boys in Brooklyn is shown in new surveillance footage released by the NYPD on Friday — as the department probes the violence as a possible hate crime. The victims, 11 and 13 — dressed traditionally as they played with several others on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant — were both targeted Sunday night when the rider spotted them as he pedaled down the street. “Get off the sidewalk,” the man, believed to be between 18 and 20 years old, allegedly snarled at the kids as he rode past them, police...
NYC shoplifting soars with over 21K complaints lodged so far this year — causing CVS, Walgreens to close up shops
New York City is losing drugstores as retail theft continues to surge. Gotham has logged 21,578 shoplifting complaints this year through May 12, up 5% from the 20,552 thefts during the same period last year. Manhattan has seen 8,896 incidents of retail theft alone. Crime is so rampant, national chains like Target, CVS and Walgreens are closing locations and tempering expansion plans. Target announced at the end of last year the closure of nine stores across four states, including one in Harlem, due to theft. Target thief used self-checkout to steal over $60K in items over 120 visits to same store “We cannot...
Boy, 15, stabbed in head near Queens school as surge of NYC teen violence continues
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the head on a Queens street near his school on Wednesday afternoon amid a wave of violence targeting teens in the Big Apple. The young victim was attacked by a ski mask-wearing assailant moments after leaving August Martin High School around 2:50 p.m., police and sources said. The suspect snuck up on the teen and plunged a knife into his head and shoulder near Guy R Brewer Boulevard and 112th Avenue in South Jamaica, cops and the sources said. NYC brute kicks 79-year-old in face, knocking him out, in vicious unprovoked attack: cops EMTs rushed the wounded...
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