Two men have been charged in relation to the unintentional shooting of then 11-month old "Baby Catherine," on Valentine Avenue and 198th Street in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx in January 2022, law enforcement officials announced on Wednesday.
The New York City Emergency Management Department and the health department advised New Yorkers on Tuesday, July 25, to take precautions to beat the heat in the coming days. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for New York City, starting this Thursday, July 27.
Campaigners to close Rikers Island shared their reaction to news of the latest announced death at the jail. NYC Department of Correction officials said Curtis Davis, age 44, a detainee at Rikers Island jail, was found unresponsive in his cell in the George R. Vierno Center (GRVC) at approximately 5 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, as reported on Sunday by the NY Daily News.
The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. Despite marking the month of June with the usual events aimed at curbing the gun violence that continues to plague The Bronx, the last day of Gun Violence Awareness Month was marred by the violent shooting of a 5-year-old girl in Olinville, followed by a spate of 16 shootings over the Fourth of July weekend. What followed was possibly even worse when four people, including two children under the age of 7, were gunned down in broad daylight by two masked scooter drivers beside St. James Park in Fordham Manor on July 11, shocking local residents.
One construction worker was reported injured by EMS in the Throggs Neck section of The Bronx, close to Unionport / Castle Hill on Saturday, July 15.
FDNY officials said two workers have been injured following a construction site collapse at Orchard Beach Pavilion on Thursday, July 13. The accident happened at approximately 11:18 a.m. FDNY Chief Kenneth Scanlon, deputy chief of Division 7, said that units responded to reports of two construction workers trapped at the location of the construction […]
FDNY officials said following what was described as a major technical rescue from a Bronx construction site in the Olinville section of the borough, six people suffered injuries, including three who were hospitalized. FDNY officials said they received a call at 4.07 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11, and units responded to 3073 Barker Avenue […]
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced on Tuesday, July 11, that a Bronx couple was arraigned on charges relating to a violent, armed home invasion and robbery during which they repeatedly assaulted a woman, an ex-girlfriend of the male defendant, in a Yorktown house during the middle of the night earlier this year […]
Police have arrested two people following the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old young man and the wounding of a second 19-year-old male youth during an apparent drive-by shooting following a Fourth of July street celebration in Fordham Heights. As reported, police said that on Wednesday, July 5, at around 2.21 a.m., officers from the […]
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