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'Completely Preventable': Nassau County Construction Company Owner Convicted For Child's Death
Nadeem Anwar, age 48 of Valley Stream, and his company – City Wide Construction and Renovations, Inc. – were convicted on Tuesday, May 14, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. The conviction comes five years after Alysson Pinto-Chaumana, age 5, was killed in front of her mother when...
Police want help finding teen shooter
The NYPD is still on the lookout for a young man who shot a teen on April 19. According to a report police released on Tuesday, a 17-year-old was approached while at 160th Street and 108th Avenue in South Jamaica at approximately 8:14 p.m. when a man, believed to be 19 to 21 years old, shot him in the left foot and then fled the scene on foot.
NYC hospital-building boom on Upper East Side roils upper-crust residents
The Upper East Side, once known as the Silk Stocking District, has embraced cotton scrubs — but not everyone’s thrilled about it. CBRE cited growing demand for healthcare services, especially for those over age 75, for the tony area becoming the “central node” in the Tristate region’s health sector, according to a new report by the company. Five major new hospital and medical projects are rising amid the upper-crust neighborhood’s fancy homes and shops — and three more enormous, highly controversial ones are proposed. New leases and expansions for health facilities in Manhattan totaled nearly 5.4 million square feet since 2018, much of...
Robber pointed gun at deli worker’s head in Queens store: NYPD
QUEENS VILLAGE, N.Y. (PIX11) — A masked man pointed a gun at a worker’s head before robbing a Queens deli Thursday morning, according to the NYPD. The gunman went into the Quick Stop Deli & Grocery at 223-24 Union Turnpike in Queens Village at around 9:45 a.m. and threatened the worker after demanding money, police […]
NY Man Gets 10 Year Prison Sentence For Homemade Firearms Collection
A New York judge has sentenced a Brooklyn man to 10 years in prison on charges stemming from his possession of unserialized homemade firearms. Last month, a New York jury voted to convict Dexter Taylor on two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, five counts of criminal possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of pistol ammunition, and violating a prohibition on unfinished firearms frames or receivers.
Woman slashed by stranger on subway in latest unprovoked NYC attack
A 22-year-old woman was slashed by a stranger on a Queens subway train, police said Thursday, the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks to rattle the city. The attacker approached the victim on a Manhattan-bound E train as it neared the Queens Plaza station and slashed her left leg with a sharp object at about 11:40 p.m. Friday, cops said. He ran off the train without having said a word and ...
Man snatches display with $3,400 worth of NY lotto tickets in Manhattan: NYPD
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Police are searching for a man who stole around $3,400 worth of lottery tickets from a 7-Eleven on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan last month, according to the NYPD. The theft took place around 6:40 p.m. on April 20, police said. The suspect brandished a knife at an employee before removing a […]
Long Island Expressway Closures Planned On Long Island: Here's When, Where
Transportation officials have announced a new set of closures affecting the Long Island Expressway. Starting Monday, May 20, and lasting through Thursday, May 23, the eastbound Long Island Expressway will be closed in the following parts of Oyster Bay and Hempstead: On Monday, May 20, Exit 34 (New…
Murder conviction vacated for Brooklyn man who served 23-year sentence: ‘It’s bittersweet’
Nearly 30 years after being wrongly arrested for participating in the armed robbery of a lumber yard that left a worker dead, a Brooklyn man’s murder conviction has finally been vacated. Despite insisting on his innocence for decades, Steven Carrington, 56, served 23 years in prison after being found guilty of murder for taking part in the robbery that ended with an employee dead from gunshot ...
Police search for men wanted in ’23 murder
Over a year after a 20-year-old man was killed in Richmond Hill, police are on the hunt for two additional suspects after one was tracked down in Vermont. In March 2023, at 109-27 Jamaica Ave., formerly the Plug Smoke Shop, which has since closed, Daryus Clarke of Dillon Street in Jamaica was shot in the chest. He later was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
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