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Bronx school aide, 23, sends love letter to 10-year-old student; attacked by child’s stepfather: NYPD
A 23-year-old Bronx grammar school teacher’s aide was arrested after he sent a 10-year-old student a love letter — and attacked by the girl’s furious stepfather, police said Saturday. Estevan Hamilton was punched in the the face by the child’s stepfather, who stormed over to P.S. 481, the Steam Bridge School on White Plains Road in Van Nest, after the child brought the aide’s letter home to ...
Father of NYC menace ‘Ice Pick Nick’ grateful son is behind bars: ‘Saving his life’
The father of the East Village madman known as “Ice Pick Nick” is grateful his son is behind bars — for his own safety and that of his neighbors, he told The Post. “Being locked up is just saving his life,” Nicholas Babilonia Sr., 66, said days after The Post reported on his son’s decades-long reign of terror in the community and his recent, long-awaited arrest. “Maybe just leave him there till he fixes himself up.” Nicholas Babilonia Jr., 45, was finally sent to Rikers last week for allegedly threatening a person on Avenue C on May 10 with a...
Kingsbridge Heights: Lawyer for “Fentanyl” Daycare Owner: “She’s not a Monster”
Editor’s Note: The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our print edition dated April 18-May 1, 2024. Bronx daycare owner, Grei Mendez, appeared in Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday, April 9. Facing various State charges, following the unintentional death by fentanyl poisoning of one-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici at Divino Niño Daycare Center in Kingsbridge Heights on Sept. 15, 2023, her defense attorney alleges she’s not a monster.
Ex-con who allegedly attacked autistic NYC Stop & Shop worker, 20, released without bail: ‘Innocent people suffer’
The ex-con who allegedly attacked a 20-year-old worker with autism in a Queens Stop & Shop parking lot was cut loose without bail Saturday — enraging the victim’s family. Alvin Martinez, 62, was granted non-monetary release despite the Queens District Attorney’s pleas to set bail against the alleged attacker. “Another example of our revolving door justice system working on behalf of the violent offenders while innocent people suffer,” a family member of the victim, who has not been publicly identified, told The Post. Martinez allegedly targeted the disabled worker outside the Rockaway Park store Thursday — marking the second time in just six months the...
Rudy Giuliani belts out ‘New York, New York’ at 80th birthday and then is served with indictment
Rudy Giuliani’s 80th birthday bash was anything but dull. The former New York City mayor and lawyer for Donald Trump held a party at a home in Palm, Beach Florida to celebrate on Friday, where he served cake and posed for photos.Mr Giuliani was also filmed belting out Frank Sinatra’s classic “New York, New York” to cheers from guests. But after the celebration wound down, Mr Giuliani was met by two officials from the Arizona Attorney General’s office who served him with an indictment.Arizona officials had been trying to track the former mayor down for weeks after a grand...
Slain NYPD detective who probed Mafia to get ‘well overdue’ headstone — 100 years after his death
He is forgotten no more. An NYPD detective who was killed during a cigar store hold-up a century ago will finally receive the recognition he deserves Monday – when a headstone inscribed with his name and acknowledging his service is placed on the unmarked grave where he was buried. The honor is thanks to a retired NYPD lieutenant who learned of the travesty while researching a loved one’s family tree. Bill Markowski was studying his fiancee’s family history on an online ancestry research site when he discovered that her great-great uncle, Bernardino Grottano, better known as Barney, was buried in famed Green-Wood...
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...
Family of slain NYC hero fights cop killer’s parole every two years: ‘We’re forever in our life sentence’
The state is poised to spring a cop killer from prison — the 42nd in the past seven years — as the officer’s family fights to keep the career criminal behind bars, The Post has learned. Police Officer James Whittington was off-duty in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Oct. 30, 1982, when he encountered felon Mitchell Martin, who was armed and fighting with a woman. Whittington chased after Martin while trying to arrest him before Martin fatally shot the police officer at close range. Man, 24, miraculously survives 120-foot jump off Brooklyn Bridge Martin was sentenced to 25 years to life and has been in...
Exclusive video shows man burglarizing Manhattan business
NEW YORK -- Video obtained by CBS New York shows a someone burglarizing a business in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. This isn't the only business in the area that's been the victim of a crime recently.CBS New York has learned at least five small businesses in the neighborhood have had a break-in or been vandalized in the past week.Video shows man stealing from register at Hell's Kitchen dry cleaning businessPolice say New Cleaners on West 49th Street was burglarized early Monday morning.Surveillance video shows a masked man breaking into the business, and within seconds, he finds the cash drawer and...
Duo Nabbed Selling Tobacco To Minors In Nassau County, Police Say
The arrests, which were part of the Nassau County Problem Oriented Police (POP) Unit’s “Project 21” initiative, were made on Wednesday, May 15. With the assistance of underage agents, the following two men were allegedly caught selling tobacco in Levittown:. Gurpreet Basra, age 34, of Wheatly Heights,...
Girl Makes Mass Harm Threat To Old Field Middle School: Cops
An Old Field Middle School official in Greenlawn notified police about the threat Friday afternoon, May 17. The school searched the teen's locker, Suffolk County Police said. She was arrested at the school at approximately 4:30 p.m. and charged with making a threat of mass harm, a Class B misdemeanor.
This 30-year-old won the NYC housing lottery and pays $1,000/month for a luxury 1-bedroom apartment—take a look inside
Nkenge is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem. While growing up in the city, living in a neighborhood like Manhattan's Flatiron, where the current median rent is $5,394, seemed like a distant possibility for the now 30-year-old content creator. But Nkenge's dream became a...
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