Category: Manhattan

Getty Images The NYPD arrested an alleged predator Wednesday who cops say exposed his genitals to a woman on a Manhattan subway train earlier this month and pinned her to the floor in an attempt to rape her. Patrick Robles, a 44-year-old Bronx man, has been charged with sex crimes for allegedly targeting a 29-year-old…

Firefighters work to put out a blaze in the iconic jewelry store Tiffany & Co. on June 29. Photo by Dean Moses Tiffany & Co., the iconic Midtown jeweler, caught fire on Thursday morning in a spectacle that left two injured and drew hundreds of spectators. According to FDNY sources, the blaze began just before…

Freeman Plaza. Photo courtesy of Hudson Square Business Improvement District Just 15 years ago, Hudson Square was a concrete jungle, notorious for the cars lining up at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. At the time, a small sliver of brick and concrete at Spring Street and Little 6th Avenue, dotted with a few trees,…

A pile of charred e-bikes pulled from the wreckage of HQ E-Bike Repair in Chinatown on June 20. Photo by Dean Moses Members of New York’s congressional delegation are seeking answers from federal regulators on e-bike safety standards and enforcement following a deadly fire at a Chinatown bike shop last week that left four people…

Police tape (file photo). Photo by Lloyd Mitchell A 45-year-old man was fatally stabbed on a Washington Heights street early Thursday morning, police said. Cops received a 911 call at around 5:20 a.m. that a man needed help in the vicinity of West 158th Street and Riverside Drive and discovered the 45-year-old lying on the…

A teenager was killed after being gun downed in Washington Heights on Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Dean Moses A teenager was killed after being gun downed in Washington Heights on Wednesday afternoon, police confirmed. A pool of blood was left on the concrete outside of the Polo Ground Houses on June 28 after a 17-year-old…

A rendering of ASTM’s proposed Eighth Avenue grand entrance to a redesigned Penn Station. Courtesy of ASTM, PAU, and HOK The Italian engineering firm ASTM has unveiled its full $6 billion plan to remake and modernize Penn Station while keeping Madison Square Garden in place. ASTM’s plan, which it says would be financed by a…

More than 2,300 homeless New Yorkers were forcibly removed from the streets in encampments sweeps last year — but just three of them wound up receiving permanent housing afterward, according to an audit that City Comptroller Brad Lander announced Wednesday.  The city’s fiscal watchdog called upon the Adams administration to immediately halt encampments sweeps across…

The Whitney Museum is hosting a 60-mile bike ride to celebrate the artist Edward Hopper from Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to Hopper’s birthplace of Nyack, New York. Max Touhey/Whitney Museum; Will Ellis Photography/Courtesy Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center; Cyclist, 1895-99. Graphite pencil on paper, 5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm). Whitney Museum…

Telling the story of the 2023 Drag March at Tompkins Square Park Photo by Bob Krasner “Once upon a time,” reads David Puck’s open book costume, “there was a conspiracy against drag artists.” That time is now, but it wasn’t that long ago that it was considered acceptable enough that Rudy Giuliani appeared in public…