Map of East Harlem subway lines. ( Photo: MTA) Man Who Attacked Subway Security Worker Sentenced Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. recently announced the sentencing of Alberto Jordan, 41, was sentenced to... 21 Nov 2025 | 03:38
Wanted for forcible touching on the M35 bus. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Forcible Touching on East Harlem Bus; Two Killers Sentenced for 2023 Slaying Fast, free buses may, or may not, become reality. Meanwhile, only an estimated 48 percent of bus riders pay their bus fare,... News 10 Nov 2025 | 12:03
Wanted for slashing in Times Square, Nov. 1, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Slashing in Times Square; Man Indicted in Murray Hill Rental Scam While some might argue that the real news is when someone doesn’t get mugged, slashed, shot, or mulcted overnight in Times... News 09 Nov 2025 | 11:56
Surveillance photo of confessed subway stabber Jamar Banks. ( Photo: NYPD) Recidivist Sentenced to Prison for Chelsea Subway Stabbing All right, crime watchers, take a deep breath, because this one gets complicated even if, on the surface, it first doesn’t... News 27 Oct 2025 | 04:02
Avery Dunning on the morning of Feb. 22, 2023, in the NYCHA Lincoln Houses. ( Photo: NYPD (inset), NYCHA) East Harlem Attempted Murderer Sentenced—Despite Sex Tapes with Juror On Thursday, Oct. 16, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the sentencing of Avery Dunning, 37, to 25... News 17 Oct 2025 | 01:40
Broome and Chrystie streets at Sarah D. Roosevelt Park (left); note bike lane. Right: Busted, again, at Washington Square Park. ( Photo: Google Maps, NYPD inset) DA Indicts Man for LES Cop Assaults; Drug Bust in Washington Square The naked, wild man Mekheil Saldana, who attacked three Lower East Side cops in two separate incidents on Aug. 25, has been... News 28 Sep 2025 | 07:00
Second Avenue and East 123rd Street, opposite Wagner Houses, NYCHA, in East Harlem. ( Photos: Google Maps, Straus News markup) Two Teens Charged with Attempted Murder after East Harlem Gunfight The dramatic surge in teen-involved violence continues, this time, again, with a gunfight in East Harlem, in the 25th Precinct.... News 22 Sep 2025 | 12:34
Moka & Co at 142 W. 34th St., site of vicious slashing; (left); Suspect arrested and arraigned for attempted rape (right). ( Photos: discoverwithme12 TikTok; NYPD) Coffee Shop Slasher Indicted; Attempted Labor Day Rapist Caught The man suspected of viciously slashing a Moka & Co. coffee shop employee on August 20, 2025, Wagner Louis, has been indicted... News 15 Sep 2025 | 01:08
Alleged rapist Anthony Smith on Aug. 10, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Alleged Hell’s Kitchen Rapist Arrested on Lower East Side A suspect in the recent assault and attempted rape of a 21-year-old woman in Times Square has been arrested. To the surprise... News 17 Aug 2025 | 06:27
Downtown officers have been looking for, and finding, illegal guns on the Lower East Side. ( Photo: NYPD) Gun Bust in Alphabet City; Fulton Street Subway Shover Sentenced While much of New York was still processing the mass shooting at 345 Park Ave. that killed four people on July 28, alert... News 04 Aug 2025 | 10:28
While waiting for the uptown 4 and 5 train, a 51-year-old man was attacked by a person on the platform. The suspect was apprehended. ( Photo: Brian Berger) SoHo Rapist Pleads Guilty; Man Indicted for Hate Crime at Fulton St. Station A 32-year-old has pleaded guilty to strangling and raping a woman he followed into her SoHo apartment in April 2024. The attack... News 29 Jul 2025 | 11:56
Left: Broadway at Cedar Street looking toward Red Cube; Right: Busted in Washington Square. ( Photos: Brian Berger, NYPD) E-Biker Attacks DOT Worker; Drug Bust in Washington Sq. Park In a shocking clash of common interests, an employee of the very e-bike friendly NYC Department of Transportation was slashed... News 21 Jul 2025 | 08:10
Left: Dana Baraket in October 2023, after tearing down Israeli hostage posters. Right: police say the suspect is wanted for public lewdness in Kips Bay. ( Photos: Stop Antisemitism, NYPD) Woman Assaults Cops in Times Square; Public Lewdness in Kips Bay A woman, Dana Baraket, 19, caught on video tearing down Israeli hostage posters on the Upper West Side in October 2023, has... News 07 Jul 2025 | 04:41
Approximate site of the crash between illegal electric unicycle and bicyclist, June 30, 2025. ( Map: CentralPark.org; Straus News markup) Rider of Illegal Electric Unicycle Badly Injured in Crash with Central Park Bicyclist The war between the speed of high-powered electric vehicles and the more measured human-powered pace of bicyclists and pedestrians... News 06 Jul 2025 | 11:59
Jennifer Guilbeault moments before, and during, her attack on Shohel Mahmud. Markup by Straus News. ( Photos: Reddit) Woman Takes Plea for Pepper- Spraying Muslim Uber Driver The pepper spray madwoman, Jennifer Guilbeault, who wildly attacked a Muslim Uber driver, Shohel Mahmud, on the Upper East... News 24 Apr 2025 | 11:28
Karen’s Quirky New York Hits the Union Square Holiday Market