Manhattan

A passerby on his way to work — who just happens to be a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt — chased down an assault suspect after seeing him sucker-punch a construction worker in SoHo and take off running.

A man accused of punching people at random was taken down by a good samaritan – who just happened to be a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Adam Harding reports.

Prosecutors argued the evidence showed that the doctor groomed patients by overprescribing pain killers, sometimes to treat serious injuries from car wrecks and other accidents, and accusers testified that the sex abuse would come during appointments at a Manhattan medical center, where the doctor would expose himself and demand sex.

In addition to breaking the color barrier in baseball, Jackie Robinson went on to serve as an executive of a Fortune 500 company and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. There is now a museum in Manhattan to honor his many contributions.

The brutal assault put the 28-year-old white investment banker in a coma for 12 days. It was considered emblematic of New York City’s lawlessness in an era when the city recorded 2,000 murders a year.

An NYPD officer on horseback chased down a sunglass thief in Times Square on Saturday, and the unusual pursuit was captured on the mounted officer’s body camera.

A suspect in Wednesday’s point-blank execution of a 20-year-old mother as she pushed her 3-month-old child in a stroller on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has been arrested on charges of murder, police announced Friday. Investigators had been zeroing in on Isaac Argro, 22, in the two day’s since the sidewalk slaying of Azsia Johnson. Law enforcement sources identify Argro...

A woman was shot in the head and killed while she was pushing a stroller with her infant inside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to senior police officials.

The 29-year-old man and 27-year-old woman, who have children together, conspired to traffic the women in their mid-20s throughout the tri-state, as well as in Delaware, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, Manhattan’s district attorney said.

Prosecutors said Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without her help.

At least three people were critically injured in a series of collisions involving a bicycle, taxi and numerous pedestrians near near a busy Manhattan intersection, authorities said Monday. NYPD officials said the cab was attempting to turn left onto Broadway around 1 p.m. when the driver collided with a bicyclist traveling southbound. The driver then veered to the left and…

That’s a lot of parking tickets.

Nathaniel Glover, better known as Kidd Creole, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was found guilty of manslaughter last month in the 2017 stabbing death of John Jolly on a midtown Manhattan street.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested for assaulting two NYPD officers, including biting one, while they attempted to arrest him Tuesday morning before eventually breaking free, police said. According to the NYPD, at around 4:15 a.m. on April 19th, at a shelter on West 30 street, two Regional Fugitive Task Force officers attempted to take a young man into custody…

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded guilty to forcibly kissing a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018, calling himself a “celebrity figure” who meant no harm

The white woman was hit with a felony hate crime charge for allegedly wrongly accusing the then-14-year-old son of a noted jazz musician of taking her phone and lunging at him.

Four men have been arrested in a sweeping international narcotics and weapons trafficking scheme to get American-made surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) to armed ethnic groups in Burma in exchange for huge amounts of meth and heroin that they planned to distribute in New York, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Thursday.

An associate of Rudy Giuliani has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge alleging that he defrauded investors in a company supposedly created to prevent people from being defrauded

The suspect believed to be responsible for a string of more than a half-dozen anti-Asian attacks in Manhattan in a single day was arrested and charged Wednesday — after he barricaded himself inside the New York Public Library in midtown, two law enforcement sources familiar with the matter said. Steven Zajonc was taken to the 7th precinct, the headquarters of…

A New York City man will face hate crime murder charges in the death of a Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April 2021 while collecting cans in East Harlem and died of his injuries eight months later.