Category: Manhattan

This brief run through Manhattan was all about a good time for a good cause. Some 100 runners participated in the annual “Cupid’s Undie Run” on Saturday to raise money for neurofibromatosis (NF) research and awareness for the genetic disorder that affects 1 in 2,000 births.  The largest pantsless party in the U.S., which takes…

The suspect who beat a man with a metal pipe in front of two businesses on Baxter Street in Chinatown on Jan. 30, 2024. Photo via Google Maps/Inset courtesy of NYPD Manhattan detectives need the public’s help in finding the brute in Chinatown who walloped a man with a metal pipe last month. Police released…

Times Square shooting suspect Jesus Rivas-Figueroa is escorted by detectives into a New York County Criminal Courtroom for arraignment on Feb. 10, 2024. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell The 15-year-old migrant charged with Thursday’s Times Square shooting that left a woman injured faced the walk of shame Saturday as he headed for court for arraignment on…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Police are investigating why a 25-year-old man in their custody in Lower Manhattan convulsed and later died on Friday. Law enforcement sources said Leron Jones, 25, of the Bronx was being held in central booking at 100 Centre St. at about 6 a.m. on Feb. 9 when he suddenly had a seizure.…

An officer responds to a shooting at a store in Times Square on Feb. 8, 2024. Photo by Dean Moses Bullets flew inside a store in Times Square on Thursday night during an apparent robbery attempt that left a woman injured, police reported. According to sources familiar with the investigation, three men men shoplifting inside…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Police are investigating the mysterious death of a 38-year-old woman at a luxury SoHo hotel on Thursday morning.  Officers from the 1st Precinct found the woman inside a room at the Soho 54, located at 54 Watts St., at about 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 8. Responding EMS units pronounced her dead at…

Work is almost complete on the borough’s first supertall, The Brooklyn Tower. Photo by Susan De Vries Work is almost complete on the borough’s first supertall, The Brooklyn Tower, with facade installation wrapping up on the building’s double-height plinth and tenants and homeowners already taking up residence in the skyscraper that towers over it. On…

The NYPD has released images of the two remaining suspects wanted for allegedly assaulting two cops outside a Midtown migrant shelter last month Photos courtesy of the NYPD The NYPD has released images of the two remaining suspects wanted in connection to last month’s high-profile assault of two cops that took place outside a Midtown…

FILE – New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman talks with reporters during a special legislative session at the state Capitol, Dec. 22, 2022, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File) Manhattan State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal filed an objection with the state Board of Elections Tuesday, seeking to block Donald Trump’s name from appearing on New…

A rendering of what Greenwich Street might look like. Photo courtesy of the Hudson Square BID New York state recently provided a windfall for the compact Lower Manhattan district known as Hudson Square. Now it wants to transform the streetscape from a conveyor of goods to a conveyor of people. Gov. Hochul announced last week…