Author: NY Daily News

From gentrification came inspiration tinged with more than a touch of melancholy. Musician Freddie Bryant returns to his old Manhattan neighborhood for “Upper West Side Love Story,” an ambitious two-CD song cycle mixing nostalgia with the cold hard truth about the local landscape’s changing fortunes through the decades. These were the streets of the 58-year-old…

Police are hoping newly unveiled surveillance footage will help crack the case of a Manhattan subway stabbing that left a man wounded on Sunday. The 28-year-old victim told police he was arguing with the suspect at the L train platform inside the 14 St.-Union Square station at 1:45 a.m. when the suspect pulled a blade.…

A retired lifeguard sprang into action to help rescue a 14-year-old boy from drowning in the choppy waters off Rockaway Beach on Sunday. “It’s a miracle that we found him,” Basia Lewandowski told the Daily News. “I hope he makes it.” Lewandowski was visiting with friend and fellow lifeguard Amanda Reynolds on the sands near…

As wounded teen subway surfer Widinson Garcia lies amid a labyrinth of tubes and wires at a Queens medical center, family say the teen daredevil has finally begun the slow road to recovery. “He’s conscious, he can speak,” an aunt told the Daily News. “We would like to think that he will get a good…

Even in death, Alyssa Henley couldn’t escape the turmoil that tormented much of her life — which ended earlier this month when she was tragically killed in a high-speed motorcycle crash on a Queens parkway just days before her high school graduation. Her grieving mother, Crystal Moore, wanted to bury the 17-year-old girl in the…

The violent crime surge that shook the city for three years appears to be subsiding, with continued drops in murders and shootings and dips in shoplifting and subway crime. But many New Yorkers still don’t feel safe. Gabriel Vargas, a 65-year-old handyman visiting Joyce Kilmer Park near Yankee Stadium last week, no longer goes out…

A 33-year-old motorcycle rider died after crashing into the side of a pickup truck on a Staten Island highway, cops said Sunday. Michael Bugliaro, of Whiting, N.J., was weaving between lanes when he crashed riding north on the West Shore Expressway about 5 p.m. Saturday, cops said. He struck the driver’s side door of a…

A fiend in a hoodie and baseball cap sexually abused a stranger walking down a Queens street before the victim bravely fought him off, police said Sunday. Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect and are asking the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down. Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect and are…

Employers with businesses in lower Manhattan on 9/11 will soon be required to alert past and present workers that they may have been exposed to harmful toxins from the terror attacks and seek help. Gov. Hochul is poised to sign the 9/11 Notice Act, which was passed by both chambers of the state Legislature in…

A stray bullet hit an MTA bus in the Bronx on Saturday, grazing one woman and shattering glass tat injured two other women passengers. The Westchester Square-bound BX4 bus was at Westchester Ave. and Tinton Ave. in Melrose at about 3:20 p.m. when a man fired at a car driving away from a grocery store…