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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,...
Port Authority bus station has secret, clean bathroom that privileged few have secret code to enter: sources
A hidden-in-plain-sight Port Authority Bus Terminal bathroom provides insiders who have its secret code relief from the often-repulsive and highly trafficked public restrooms, The Post has learned. A locked door nestled between the men’s and women’s bathrooms on the second floor of the Midtown terminal is labeled “All Gender Restroom” and includes a number to call for entry. But a privileged few have unfettered access, allowing them to bypass the main facilities where the mentally ill loiter in stalls, migrants bathe in sinks, vile odors hover, and debris clogs toilets and urinals. NJ dad of 3 randomly stabbed at Port Authority Bus Terminal...
Stomach-turning video captures human ‘pizza rat’ scarfing down toppings while delivering pie in Brooklyn
New York City has a new pizza rat — and this time it’s the two-legged kind. A security camera in a Brooklyn elevator caught a delivery driver red sauce-handed as he plucked toppings from a Papa John’s pie on his way up to a customer’s apartment. He punches the floor number, pops open the box and lets the top flop open, exposing a heavily garnished pie, the video shows. I’ve been eating pizza every day for six years — people call me crazy but I’m healthy and happy He picks off some apparent meat and veggie additions, quickly scarfs them down and then...
Murder: Ex-Con Charged With Cold-Blooded Killing Of Popular Paterson Street Vendor
Jimmy Mercedes, 39, was charged with murder and weapons offenses in the 10:22 a.m. May 5 shooting of 62-year-old Daryle Robinson Sr. Mercedes turned himself in at police headquarters around 8 p.m. Friday, May 10, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Officer-In-Charge Isa Abbassi announced Saturday afternoon.
N.Y. Lottery: TAKE 5 jackpot-winning ticket worth nearly $40K sold in NYC
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Two New Yorkers are now tens of thousands of dollars richer. New York Lottery officials announced one top-prize winning ticket was sold for the May 10 TAKE 5 evening drawing. The ticket, sold at Guru Hari Stationers Inc in Jamaica, Queens, was worth $39,641. The winning numbers were 7, 8, 23, 30, and 34.
2024 NYC Japan Parade draws thousands to Upper West Side
NEW YORK - Thousands of people celebrated Japanese culture Saturday in Manhattan for NYC’s Japan Parade. If you're wondering why you haven't heard of this parade, it could be because this is just the third annual celebration. What started as a festival in Central Park in 2007 has expanded...
The Met holds concert with blind and visually impaired performers
May is Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and PIX11 News wants to introduce you to one truly amazing 11-year-old Asian American boy who is part of a concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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