NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban at a press conference earlier this year. His cell phone was seized during a raid on his home and other top aides to Eric Adams on Sept. 5. ( Photo: flickr.com) Feds Raid Homes of NYPD Commissioner and Several Top Mayoral Aides The FBI reportedly conducted raids on the home of police commissioner Edward Caban and two top aides to Mayor Eric Adams... News 06 Sep 2024 | 11:30
Parks Dept workers painting the lines around a new track that has appeared for the first time inside what was long known as the skateboard park that also housed a baseball diamond and basketball courts in the northern end of Tompkins Sq. Park. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Skateboarders Fear They Will be Sidelined as Iconic Tompkins Sq. Park Space Gets Makeover At one point, the NYC Parks Dept said they wanted to turn the run down asphalt playground in the northern end of Tompkins... News 04 Sep 2024 | 06:34
Eric Adams at his Aug. 20 media availability at City Hall said he is letting the grand jury investigation “run its course.” Lisa HChief legal counsel to City Hall said the mayor has not be told he is a target of the probe. ( Photo) Adams Brushes Off Questions on FBI Subpoenas, Counsel Says Not Been Told He’s a Target Mayor Eric Adams did not spend much time dwelling on the implications of the latest round of subpoenas that recent reports... News 21 Aug 2024 | 04:52
Police said they caught the suspect entering the public storage facilty on E. 92nd St. some eight hours after the violent sexual assault wearing the same clothes he wore during the early morning attack on Aug. 10 of a 19 year old woman walking along E. 90th St. near East End Ave. He exited after changing his clothes in the storage locker raising speculation that the storage locker was where he lived. ( Photo: Google Street View) East Side Attempted Rapist Caught; Held On Rikers Island A 30 year-old homeless man was arrested on Aug. 12 for the attempted rape two days earlier of a 19 year-old woman on the... News 16 Aug 2024 | 04:08
Deadly violence: cops swarmed to the intersection of E. 14th St. and Ave. A. on June 23 after a homeless individual killed one victim. Police arrested a suspect in the murder. The dispute among three homeless people reportedly centered around drugs. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Problem Plagued Block in East Village Making Progress in its Latest Clean up Drive An effort to restore order to a stretch along E. 14th St. that had emerged as a center of drug dealing homelessness and garbage... News 12 Aug 2024 | 02:39
The FDNY and police emergency service vehicles responded to an Aug. 5 rush hour incident with a person dead on the tracks at Union Square. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Subway Mayhem: One Person Killed on Tracks, Two Tourists Shoved by Unstable Woman It was another day of subway mayhem on the Lower East Side. On Aug. 5, shortly before 7 p.m. police said a person was killed... News 09 Aug 2024 | 06:42
Police in the south end of Tompkins Sq. Park on July 12 after one person that police suspect was a drug dealer was murdered at one of the chess tables shortly before 10 a.m. and a second man described as a “steerer” for the drug dealer was wounded. Police have since arrested two men on murder charges. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Chess Table Murder: 2 Alleged Drug Dealers Arrested in Tompkins Square Narco Feud Two men said by police to be involved in the illegal drug trade were arrested in connection with a shooting in Tompkins Sq.... News 29 Jul 2024 | 04:01
John F. Kennedy Jr. perished when a small plane he was piloting crashed in the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard 25 years ago, killing himself, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette. ( John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com/Wikimedia Commons) Remembering JFK Jr. 25 Years After His Tragic Death Has it really been 25 years? It was a hot and hazy morning in July when I received a call from the business editor of the... Voices 19 Jul 2024 | 12:17
Police investigate a double shooting that occurred inside Tompkins Sq. Park on July 12 that left a 74 year-old man dead and a 44 year-old man wounded. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Chess Table Murder: One Dead, One Wounded in Latest Spasm of Violence in the East Village Dried blood could be seen on a chess table next to a coffee cup inside Tompkins Sq. Park where two people were shot on the... News 12 Jul 2024 | 03:49
More than a half dozen police officers were still on the scene of a stabbing on East 14th St. on June 23. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) One Dead, Two Injured in East Village Stabbing Rampage “Is that blood? Oh my God that’s awful.” That was the horrified reaction of one young woman as she happened upon the police... News 24 Jun 2024 | 06:26
Three generations of McCourts were captured at the mic on May 30 at the memorial for actor, author and raconteur Malachy McCourt. HIs daughter Siobhan McCourt (left of mic) is holding Liam Tiernan McCourt, Malachy’s only great grandchild with Fiona Tiernan, who is Siobhan’s daughter, and granddaughter of Malachy. Behind them is Ellen McCourt, widow of Pulitzer Prize winning Frank McCourt, and to her right, Maggie McCout, the only child of Frank. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Over 600 People Turn Out For Memorial to Malachy McCourt at Symphony Space There were jokes and songs and uproarious tales and a few choked back tears as 600 people filled Symphony Space on the UWS... News 04 Jun 2024 | 04:48
Police and EMS workers in a futile effort to save the life of 16-year-old Mahki Brown, a student at Broome Street Academy. Cops said Brown was shot by a 19-year-old suspect who was arrested days later. ( Citizens app) Teen Who Cops Say Shot 16 y.o. Student in SOHO Arrested, Charged with Murder A 19-year-old resident of the Lower East Side was arrested May 17 and charged with murder of a basketball-loving student... News 20 May 2024 | 07:09
Sheriff Anthony Miranda leaves the New City Smoke Shop on May 7. The store was padlocked on day one of the city wide crackdown. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Sheriff Miranda Says 75 Illegal Weed Stores Were Padlocked in First 4 Days of Crackdown In the first four days of a citywide crackdown, 75 retail outlets selling illegal cannabis products were padlocked. “We visited... News 19 May 2024 | 06:16
Sheriff Anthony Miranda steps out of the New City Smoke Shop, an illegal cannabis store in downtown Manhattan which was padlocked on May 7 after a raid by a joint task that included the sheriff’s office, the NYPD and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Adams Says There Are Now 2,900 Illegal Weed Stores in NYC As Sheriff Begins Big Crackdown The city began a five-borough wide crackdown on illegal cannabis shops on May 7, with one underway at 110 Church St. only... News 13 May 2024 | 01:51
Mayor Eric Adams at his weekly press conference on April 30 dropped some strong hints that library budget cuts that resulted in all branches across the city closing on Sundays, could be restored. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Adams Hints $58M Funding Cut That Forced Libraries to Close on Sundays Could Be Restored One of the more controversial cuts outlined by Mayor Eric Adams last November as he was trying to close what he projected... News 06 May 2024 | 12:47
