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The 37-year-old man who is suspected of randomly sucker-punching an 81-year-old woman to unconsciousness has been arrested 21 times before, including for alleged child abuse. Police say Hansel Esparragoza is the culprit who attacked an elderly woman on the Upper West Side last month. He was arraigned Friday and is being jailed on $75,000 cash bail. Three of Esparragoza's 21 prior arrests were for acting in a way that was harmful to children under the age of one.

Almost two dozen disheveled squatters tormented and terrorized the residents and businesses surrounding a vacant $4 million Brooklyn brownstone they commandeered. The young miscreants stole packages off neighbor’s porches, threatened passersby, damaged private property, got high on the stoop, and set off fireworks in the early morning hours, neighbors told The Post. The three-story building at 60 S. Fourth St. in South Williamsburg was finally emptied this week, after police forced the squatters back out onto the sidewalk. They also arrested one of them: Ryan Grewal, 26, who was charged with felony criminal mischief for damaging a motorcycle outside nearby JANE Motorcycles,...

The shooting occurred on Sept. 21 near a neighborhood deli, just steps from Sincere Campbell's home, leaving his loved ones and the wider community devastated.

Two men were left cut and bloodied after a broad-daylight knife fight on a Harlem street Friday, wild video obtained by The Post shows. A 63-year-old and his rival, 35, were filmed circling each other, knives drawn, in the middle of the road at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 120th Street around 4:30 p.m. as passersby barely bat an eye. The pair can be seen lunging and swiping at each other with their blades several times before the clip cuts out. 29-year-old mother stabbed to death inside NYC deli during broad-daylight feud When police responded they found the older man with a stab...

Two teens have been arrested and charged with gang assault for the attack on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson, authorities say.

Another woman has died during childbirth at Woodhull Hospital in Bed-Stuy - the third woman of color to die while in labor at the hospital since 2020.Bevorlin Garcia Barrios, 24, died at the hospital September 15 after undergoing an emergency C-section, according to her boyfriend, Nelson Ramirez.Ramirez said Barrios went to the hospital because she wasn't feeling well.He said doctors took her in to perform the C-section and then came out a short time later and told him Barrios had died.Ramirez said he still doesn't know what happened to her."I done crying at this point," he said. "I done crying....

You'll find a variety of random items accidentally left behind in shopping carts at you local grocery store. It's not all that uncommon to discover loose change, unused coupons, small food items, or maybe even a forgotten cell phone lying around. But few were expecting to ever stumble upon what...

HBO just released The Penguin, which follows the character from the Batman franchise, who is striving to be a mob boss in Gotham City. The first two episodes have been really good. Collin Farrell, who plays the villainous Oswald 'Oz' Cobb, is unrecognizable. He fully embodies the character. While Oz is a fictional mob boss-in-the-making of a fictional crime family. New York has had its fair share of real crime bosses of real crime families over the years. Not to be outdone by Chicago, there are some certified gangsters that operated their criminal enterprises in New York. Here are the 8 most dangerous and infamous.

LONGWOOD, the Bronx (PIX11) – A mother who was stabbed to death at a Bronx bodega Thursday was the “sweetest person you’d want to meet,” a close friend said. Gwendolyn Guyton, 29, of the Bronx, was fatally stabbed by another woman inside a bodega at 549 Southern Blvd. in Longwood around 3:15 p.m., according to […]

It was a booze cruiser. An NYPD sergeant in Internal Affairs claims he found a half-empty bottle of liquor in his captain’s car, but that when he reported it to his bosses it became last call for his cop career. Michelangelo Hidalgo, 42, alleges in a new lawsuit that in July 2023, his boss, Capt. Genienne King, asked him to take her unmarked department vehicle to the car wash. While he and another sergeant drove there, they heard clinking coming from the back seat and looked to find “bottles hitting each other” and “rolling around,” according to the suit. On the floor...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Could we be in for a repeat of the winter of 2023-24? A long-range seasonal forecast issued by the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Climate Prediction Center on Sept. 19, certainly suggests that we are in store for yet another warmer winter. What happened to...

SOMERVILLE, NJ — The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Angely Betancourt, 25, of New York, N.Y., who is wanted in connection with a fatal incident that occurred on July 4, 2022, in Bedminster, according to a Fugitive of the Month press release. Officials say Betancourt is facing charges of second-degree reckless death by auto and third-degree causing death while driving unlicensed.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERAccording to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office, Betancourt was allegedly involved in a motor vehicle incident that resulted in the death of an...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – A dead whale washed ashore at Fort Tilden in Queens on Saturday morning, according to a Facebook post by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.  The dead whale was first discovered floating in the waters surrounding New York on Thursday.  The U.S. Coast Guard notified AMSEAS of a deceased Minke whale floating […]

The incident occurred just before 9:30 on the platform of the A and C lines.

According to police, a van was menacing three people crossing the road as they attempted to enter the Shaare Shalom Synagogue, shouting antisemitic remarks, and attempting to swerve into the people before stopping at the last minute and fleeing.

These bandits cost a Brooklyn family $100,000. Romping raccoons that ran wild in Alice and David Zaslavsky’s $1.2 million Brooklyn home pooped and peed everywhere, chewed through wiring and terrified the couple’s 9-year-old daughter before they were finally banished. And while the flea-bitten critters are now gone, the Zaslavskys are still not out of the woods. Contractors estimate the ninja furballs caused $100,000 worth of damage to the three-bedroom, 1,930-square foot home, and the family’s insurance company won’t cover the necessary month’s worth of repairs. “We have this tiny little clause in our homeowner’s insurance that says they do not clean up wildlife...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in New York City apprehended a Tren de Aragua gang member last week who was first encountered at the border two years ago. ICE officials said local sanctuary jurisdictions twice ignored detainer arrests and released Javier Jose Albornoz Marchan, 22, back into the community — despite his pattern of criminal behavior — before his most recent arrest on Staten Island.

Jewish community members will come together in Central Park on Sunday to rally and march ahead of the one-year mark since the October 7 attacks in Israel.The rally, which will meet at W. 90th Street and Central Park West at 11 a.m., is being led by the family of Edan Alexander, one of the hostages with ties to New Jersey taken during the attacks.Last October, family members of Alexander and hundreds of others gathered in Tenafly to pray for the safe return of the hostages. One year later, many will come out once again to show their support with the...

Man's best friend is getting some extra protection thanks to a new law passed in New York City. According to The Sun, lawmakers in the city have introduced a bill that is known as the Paws Act. Its intention is to punish drivers and repeat offenders that maim or hurt a service animal or pet while on the road.

PATERSON — A school teacher was punched in the face and threatened by his colleague's husband, according to officials. It happened last Thursday afternoon at School 18 in Paterson, the district said. The husband, who has not been named publicly, checked in with school security at the entrance with...