Category: The Bronx

Three people have died in motorcycle crashes on city streets since Aug. 3. Photo via Getty Images A 19-year-old teenager was killed Thursday after crashing a motorcycle in Maspeth, Queens. Police say Roman Mikirtichev, a resident of Woodhaven Boulevard in Middle Village, was driving a Suzuki motorcycle northbound on 64th Street in Maspeth, near the…

A screenshot shows an Instagram photo of a grand larceny defendant with a large amount of cash. Photo courtesy Attorney General’s Press office A crew of six Bronx individuals have been sentenced for stealing more than $3 million in cash, cars and merchandise in 11 different New York counties.  That’s according to New York State…

At Icahn 7 elementary and middle charter schools in Soundview, teachers and school officials are offering wildly differing accounts of what happened on the last day of classes — when as many as half of all teachers were told not to return in September. At the elementary school, the staffing dismissals came midway through Friday, June 30.…

Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler announces the arrest of 15 people for a drug trafficking scheme upstate, including the director of the Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence program Michael Rodriguez, at a press conference in Middletown on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Screenshot courtesy Orange County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Investigators found that Bronx anti-gun violence…

A family member of the officer and his father found with gunshot wounds to the hand fell to her knees in agony. Photo by Dean Moses An NYPD officer and his father were found dead inside their Bronx home on Tuesday, sources close to the investigation confirmed to amNewYork Metro. A massive police presence assembled…

Visibility was minimal as firefighters battle the blaze in the Bronx on Sunday, March 5, 2023. Investigators said the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery. Photo Lloyd Mitchell An e-bike is the suspected cause of one of four fires that left three people injured and required more than 280 total first responders in the…

file photo File photo/Lloyd Mitchell A man was stabbed to death during an apparent melee on a Bronx street early Monday morning, it was reported. Law enforcement sources said the homicide happened at about 2:35 a.m. on July 31 near East 161st Street and Eagle Avenue in Melrose. Officers from the 40th Precinct, in responding…

File photo/Dean Moses Bronx detectives continue to seek the suspect who stabbed a man to death on Friday afternoon. Officers from the 52nd Precinct found Carlos Borbon, 21, with multiple stab wounds to his body inside his residence at 365 East 204th St. in Norwood, at about 5:32 p.m. on July 28. Police sources familiar…

Police arrested 19-year-old Luis Gil on Friday in the Midtown North Precinct for allegedly stabbing 35-year-old Hugo Morales to death at Pier 84 earlier this month. Photo by Dean Moses Manhattan detectives arrested on Friday a 19-year-old for allegedly stabbing a man to death at Pier 84 earlier this month, ending a two-week manhunt to…

Customers shop at Fairfield Food Inc. in the South Bronx on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Photo ET Rodriguez Everyone knows someone who dreams of winning the lottery, so it might come as a surprise that a winning Powerball ticket sold in the Bronx more than one week ago still has yet to be claimed. Fairfield…