Category: Manhattan
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From the picket lines: SAG-AFTRA actors speak from strikes across Manhattan
The SAG-AFTRA strike held picket lines in four locations across Manhattan on Wednesday as actors and writers continued to fight to have their demands met. Photo by Dean Moses The SAG-AFTRA strike held picket lines in four locations across Manhattan on Wednesday as actors and writers continued to fight to have their demands met. The…
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Rebecca Weiner named NYPD’s first female Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism
Rebecca Weiner became the first female NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism on Tuesday. Photo by Dean Moses Mayor Eric Adams and his new top cop, Edward Caban, made another historic appointment on Tuesday, tapping Rebecca Weiner as the Police Department’s first female Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism. The announcement followed a string…
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Homeless man cuffed for Washington Square Park deadly stabbing
Police cuffed 30-year-old Khajah Gaye on July 18. Photo by Dean Moses A homeless man was cuffed on Tuesday for a deadly stabbing in Washington Square Park last month, police said. Detectives from Manhattan’s 6th Precinct tracked 30-year-old Khajah Gaye to 121 Hell Gate Circle on Randall’s Island for a murder he allegedly committed on…
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Trio indicted for fatal drive-by shooting of bystander from Egypt who was visiting son: DA Bragg
The deli at the corner of West 162nd Street and Broadway, where Reda Girgis was gunned down on May 23, 2023. Photo via Google Maps Three men were indicted Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court for the drive-by shooting and murder of a bystander in front of a Washington Heights deli. Jonadel Lakard, 23,…
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German Doner Kebab is opening a Manhattan flagship location near Penn Station
German Doner Kebab is opening a new, flagship location in midtown Manhattan on Monday, July 24, 2023. Courtesy of German Doner Kebab German Doner Kebab announced its grand opening of a new flagship restaurant in Midtown Manhattan nearby Penn Station. The Manhattan GDK — the first in the city — is located at 1001 6th…
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Construction starts next week on redesign of Third Avenue on Upper East Side, adding bus and protected bike lanes
DOT is proposing removing two lanes of car traffic to install a bus lane and a protected bike lane on Third Avenue. NYC Dept of Transportation The city will kick off construction next week on the redesign of nearly two miles of Third Avenue on the Upper East Side, adding bus and protected bike lanes…
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68-year-old woman pepper-sprayed in face at Upper West Side subway station: NYPD
Police are looking for this woman who allegedly pepper-sprayed a 68-year-old female in the face at the West 66th Street/Lincoln Center subway station Monday. A 68-year-old woman was pepper sprayed in the face at the Lincoln Center train station on the Upper West Side on Monday. The victim was attacked by a woman while she…
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3 Teens shot in Times Square following dispute, gunman remains at large: NYPD
Three teenagers were shot in Times Square Monday night. Police on the scene conducting an investigation. Steve Sanchez Three teenage boys were shot and wounded in Times Square Monday night following a dispute—and the gunman remains on the loose, police said. Cops say that the shooting took place in the vicinity of 7th Avenue and…
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Man stabbed in the neck in Upper East Side subway station
A man was stabbed in the neck in an uptown subway station on Monday. Photo by Dean Moses One man is hospitalized and another is behind bars after a bloody stabbing inside an Upper East Side subway station on Monday, police sources said. According to police, an unnamed individual stabbed a 37-year-old man in the…
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Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann worked in NYC as professional architect
Rex Heuermann, 59, allegedly killed several young women over the course of more than a decade. Photo courtesy of the Suffolk Police Department Rex Heuermann, the suspect arrested in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island, has a long history as an architect in New York City. Law enforcement officials on Long Island…