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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka comes to Jersey City as part of 2025 gubernatorial run
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka came to Jersey City as part of his 2025 gubernatorial run, giving a speech about his platform and what he’d like to change in New Jersey before opening the floor for questions. “It is not our intention to run a Black campaign,” James Gee, Baraka’s...
Violent vagrant ‘Ice Pick Nick’ with 37 busts who terrorized East Village for years finally jailed: ‘System is failing us all’
A wildman known as “Ice Pick Nick” who has been terrorizing the East Village for years has finally been arrested and jailed. Just before 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, neighborhood tormentor Nicholas Babilonia Jr. menaced a person on Avenue C with what appeared to be a firearm, before throwing the victim’s bicycle, according to criminal courts records. The unhinged vagrant, who boasts a rap sheet 37 arrests long, then grabbed a metal pipe and swung at his target, narrowly missing him, the complaint said. The violent and mentally ill vagrant was charged with second-degree attempted assault, a felony, and menacing,...
Friday Night Shooting Leaves Jersey City Man Dead
JERSEY CITY, NJ - A 24-year-old Jersey City man is dead after a Friday night shooting. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, the Jersey City Police Department received a report of shots fired in the area of Pearsall Avenue and Garfield Avenue just before 10:00 p.m.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Once on scene, responding officers located a male victim – later identified as Resheed Wallace, with an apparent gunshot wound to the upper body. He was transported to Jersey City Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 10:25 p.m. The incident remains under investigation and no arrests have been made at this time. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Office of the Hudson County Prosecutor at 201-915-1345 or to leave an anonymous tip at: http://www.hudsoncountyprosecutorsofficenj.org/homicide-tip/. For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
OVERNIGHT GUN VIOLENCE: Man found fatally shot in head in the Bronx, another dies of gunshot wounds in Brooklyn
A man was found dead after being shot in the head in the Bronx on Saturday night, not long before another man died of gunshot wounds he suffered in Brooklyn early Sunday, in two overnight instances of fatal gun violence.
Fast food bags, foliage and more: MTA officers arrest 19 in latest ‘ghost car’ crackdown
Officials say one of the drivers was blatantly covering their license plate using bags. The agency says the operation resulted in the seizing of 57 vehicles, totaling $302,000 in unpaid fees. [ more › ]
Alvin Bragg can help end protest violence — by throwing the book at the perps
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has never been shy about being an activist prosecutor who uses the discretion his office affords him to decide what behavior Manhattan will put up with and what behavior it won’t. So it’s up to Bragg whether the Columbia University lawbreakers who escalated their “protests” to violence will face consequences — or whether we can expect more such behavior as it goes unpunished. The allegations emerging from the Columbia chaos of two weeks ago are disturbing. As Hamilton Hall custodian Mario Torres told The Post, a masked mob armed with tools for violence — hammer, rope, duct tape, zip ties...
NYC man stabs three relatives during family dispute, barricades himself inside home: cops
A 31-year-old Queens man is in custody after allegedly stabbing three relatives near his Ozone Park home during a violent Saturday night family squabble — then barricaded himself inside, according to police and sources. Vinny Dagga was eventually taken into custody and charged with assault, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon following the 8:30 p.m. incident outside 133-43 Lefferts Boulevard that left two of the victims hospitalized, cops said. Albany must address the deadly surge in youth violence Law enforcement sources said those two family members — a 63-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman — were both stabbed in the stomach during the bloody encounter and were rushed to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Shocking video shows serial offender stab random tourist near Times Square in unprovoked attack The third victim, identified as a 28-year-old man, was slashed in the hand and refused medical attention. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR METRO DAILY NEWSLETTER Cops responded to the Ozone Park home on a report of a crime in progress. Police did not disclose how the victims are related to Dagga or what sparked the alleged attack. For the latest metro stories, top headlines, breaking news and more, visit nypost.com/metro/
NYPD: Two people arrested on Staten Island after traffic violation, interfering with arrest
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A late night traffic stop resulted in two arrests in New Brighton on Saturday night. Elijah Hesterbey, 30, was driving with a suspended license when he was pulled over in front of 131 Jersey St. after not stopping at a stop sign, a DCPI spokesperson said.
Albany must address the deadly surge in youth violence
Last week’s fresh wave of youth violence, with two teens killed and at least six more wounded in shootings and stabbings across the city, again flags the failure of Albany’s soft-on-crime approach. The brazen violence and the young lives snuffed out is horrifying: Sara Rivera, 17: fatally stabbed in the neck at a Queens subway station. Mahki Brown, 16, a member of a Brooklyn anti-gun violence group, shot and killed in SoHo by a CitiBike-riding assassin. Two 15-year-old boys stabbed outside a McDonald’s in The Bronx. Three more boys, also 15, slashed in two incidents in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Revolving door for mentally ill...
Will NYC see northern lights Sunday before solar storm ends? | Forecast
NEW YORK - Will the New York City area see the northern lights tonight? With clear skies, New Yorkers could get that chance. Millions of people in the U.S. as far south as Alabama could be in for another dazzling display of the Northern Lights on Sunday night as Earth continues to be blasted by a historic geomagnetic storm that hasn’t been experienced in decades.
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