Firefighters responded to a two-alarm blaze that appears to have erupted in the basement of a 116-year-old building at 22nd Street and First Avenue. on Feb. 20. ( Photo: Tim McCann) Basement Fire in Kips Bay Forces Building Residents, Shops to Flee A restaurant and a dry cleaner and four floors of residential apartments are still shut down after a two alarm fire erupted... News 01 Mar 2026 | 03:49
Santiago Ajsac Sirin, a 36 year-old immigrant working as a delivery driver, was beaten into a coma in Kips Bay during a robbery attempt last July. His recent death from his injuries is now being treated as a homicide. ( Photo: GoFundMe ) Immigrant’s Death in Kips Bay Assault Ruled Homicide The death of a 36 year-old man who was brutally beaten by an array of assailants on Second Ave. last summer has been officially... News 18 Feb 2026 | 09:50
Public advocate Jumaane Williams speaks at a frigid candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti and Renee Good outside the VA Hospital on E. 23rd St. on Jan. 29. Community activist Kevin O’Keefe is seen to his left holding candle. ( Photo: Instagram) Thousands Attend Alex Pretti Vigil at Kips Bay Veterans Hospital Over a thousand New Yorkers gathered on Thursday evening, Jan. 28th, for a candlelight vigil outside the VA (Veterans Affairs)... News 02 Feb 2026 | 04:43
Kips Bay will be getting a spiffy new life sciences complex, which will displace the Public Health Lab to Harlem and give the medical examiner’s office a new home. ( Photo: EDC ) Kips Bay Science Complex, With New City Morgue, is ‘Shovel-Ready’ New York city and state officials have announced that they’ve broken ground on a new life sciences complex coming to Kips... News 26 Dec 2025 | 02:24
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
Clifton Williams on the day he was charged in two assaults on May 8, 2024, one on actor Steve Buscemi and another on an Asian individual whose name was not released. He was sentenced on April 10 after pleading guilty. ( Photo: NYPD) Random Stabbing in Midtown; Steve Buscemi Attacker Sentenced Because it happened just two days after the horrific broken-bottle attack on costume designer Mae Berg in SoHo, another random... News 13 Apr 2025 | 11:21
