Category: Manhattan

Ray’s Candy store owner, 90-year-old Ray Alvarez, still works 20 hours a day, seven days a week. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann Like many of New York City’s small businesses, Ray’s Candy Store in the East Village took a financial hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inflation and soaring utility costs added to the financial peril. In…

Surveillance images of the suspects police believe fired a gun during a robbery gone awry in Union Square over the weekend. NYPD Police have released images of the suspects who they believe fired a gun during a robbery gone awry in Union Square over the weekend. Authorities said Sunday that they remain on the hunt…

Cops are searching for a pervert after an East Village resident woke up during the early hours of the morning with a stranger in her bed, authorities said. NYPD Cops are still searching for the pervert they say broke into a woman’s East Village apartment last week and crawled into bed with her. According to…

The suspect sought for an antisemitic hate crime in the Financial District on Dec. 5, 2023. Photo courtesy of NYPD The NYPD is investigating yet another antisemitic hate crime in the city — this time in the Financial District, where a bigot attacked a man who bumped into him at a drug store earlier this…

Police investigate a robbery that ended in gunfire in Union Square on Dec. 8. Photo by Dean Moses Shots were in Union Square on Friday night during an attempted robbery, sending pedestrians running for cover, authorities confirmed. Law enforcement sources said the incident occurred at about 9:44 p.m. on Dec. 8 near the corner of…

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Commit to Caucus rally, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney) Donald Trump, the four-time indicted former president, should be blocked from the 2024 presidential ballots in New York, two Manhattan pols urged the state Board of Elections this week. In a joint letter sent…

E-bikes and e-scooters used in New York City should be required to be registered like cars, elected officials and traffic safety advocates demanded Wednesday. During a Park Row rally outside City Hall on Dec. 6, the group pushed for a swift hearing of a bill, introduced by Council Member Robert Holden in 2022, mandating that…

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell speaks on a police involved shooting. NYPD on X Two NYPD officers shot a gun-toting man in Washington Heights who apparently charged at them Thursday morning in an apparent suicide-by-cop attempt, police sources said. Chief of Patrol John Chell noted this was the second time in four days officers…

A teen was shot inside an Upper East Side smoke shop on Wednesday night, police reported. According to police sources, a 15-year-old boy was shot inside of Smile Smoke located on East 61st Street and 3rd Avenue at approximately 6 p.m. on Dec. 6, in the 19th Precinct‘s confines. Law enforcement sources said the teenager…

FILE – Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A woman sued the hip-hop mogul on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, claiming he and two other men raped her 20 years ago in a New York City recording studio when she was 17. The…