Author: NY Daily News

Despite Mayor Adams’ high-profile efforts to reduce the number of New Yorkers living on the streets, the city is seeing a rise in street homelessness. The number of people sleeping on the street is up in 2023, according to an annual one-night survey released at the start of the Fourth of July weekend. The annual…

Cops cuffed a Brooklyn man in Pennsylvania for ruthlessly beating a homeless man with a metal rod and crushing him to death with his car outside a Queens scrap yard earlier this year, police said Wednesday. Angeles Araujo, 28, was extradited to the city and charged at the 110th Precinct stationhouse with murder and three…

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik tried to strong-arm a Staten Island man who is suing a personal protection equipment company, intimidating the plaintiff and his associates to discourage him from going public about his complaints, according to court documents. Kerik, the disgraced former top cop who served three years in federal prison on tax fraud…

The Bronx man accused of gunning down 15-year-old Wesley Vasquez in Harlem’s Riverbank State Park was spotted handing out latex gloves to four accomplices — one of whom may be his son — moments before the murder, court documents show. Defendant Anibal Cruz, 36, was with four unidentified associates at the state park near W.…

A new report documents widespread deterioration of fire safety, sanitation and building infrastructure at Rikers Island and the rest of the aging New York City jails system, the Daily News has learned. A sprinkler failure during a near-deadly fire was among thousands of examples cited in the new report covering January through April filed Wednesday…

East Harlem residents are a step closer to having subway access Wednesday after the MTA announced it was soliciting the first contract for a long-awaited continuation of the Second Avenue Subway. The second phase of the long-delayed effort to put more subway tracks under Manhattan’s East Side will connect the eastern section of Harlem to…

The popping of fireworks this 4th of July was followed by gunshots heard across the city that left two dead and a dozen people wounded early Wednesday, cops said. The 14 victims were hit by gunfire in 13 shootings that took place within a nine-and-a-half-hour span between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according…

A 79-year-old motorist struck and killed a man crossing a Staten Island street, police said Wednesday. The 60-year-old victim, who has not been identified, was crossing at the corner of Post and Decker Aves. in Port Richmond at about 8 a.m. Tuesday when an Audi A4 rammed into him, cops said. First responders found the…

A man was shot in the face and killed in Manhattan early Wednesday by a gunman who got away on a scooter, police said. The shooting happened about 1:45 a.m. on Vermilyea Ave. near W. 204th St. in Inwood. Medics rushed the 30-year-old victim to Harlem Hospital but he could not be saved. Police described…

As Queens teenager Waleed Afridi played in the surf off of Rockaway Beach, the risk of his drowning was the furthest thing from his father’s mind. “The waves … is not that much high. He was not even in danger because I was there,” dad Naeem Afridi told the Daily News on Tuesday. “As a…