A man and a woman are facing charges in a Staten Island pit bull attack that left three people, including a toddler, suffering from bite wounds, cops said Wednesday. Shontay Holland, 29, and Rodney Jones, 48, were taken into custody immediately after the New Brighton mauling, in which eight to 10 dogs escaped through a … Read more
The first residents of Mayor Eric Adams’ controversial tent city for migrants arrived Wednesday morning in a caravan of vehicles and were welcomed with handshakes from a top City Hall official. But there were just two of them. After being greeted at the Randall’s Island facility by city Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol, the two … Read more
A mugger pummeled a 43-year-old woman before snatching her glasses and cellphone inside a Brooklyn train station, cops said. The straphanger was standing on the platform at the Avenue I station in Midwood around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man approached and repeatedly punched her in an unprovoked attack, authorities said. He also grabbed her … Read more
The madman who allegedly choked a mom pushing her tot in a stroller and then attacked a second woman in a Manhattan park taunted one of his victims to “call the cops, I don’t care,” prosecutors said Wednesday. Career criminal Argenis Rivera, 33, was ordered held on $25,000 bail on charges of strangulation, assault and … Read more
New polling backs up what Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin has argued for months: He is much closer to beating Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul this November than many people expect in solidly blue New York. “We’ve consistently been gaining massive ground on Hochul as New Yorkers witness first hand her abysmal record on the … Read more
A Queens man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing and dismemberment of a World War I veteran more than 45 years ago. Martin Motta, 75, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in the gruesome cold-case slaying of George Clarence Seitz, whose partial remains were discovered in the backyard of a Richmond Hill home in March … Read more
A retired NYPD officer was socked in the back of the head in Brooklyn Tuesday in what is being eyed as a possible “knockout game” attack, police and sources said. The 66-year-old former cop was walking on a sidewalk along Brighton Beach Avenue when a group of suspects came up and clobbered him in the … Read more
The man charged in the death of a Queens straphanger was held without bail Tuesday night as court documents revealed that he allegedly punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train. Carlos Garcia, 50, arraigned on charges of manslaughter and assault, is accused of … Read more
Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former controversial top aide Melissa DeRosa unloaded on Democrat Kathy Hochul Tuesday, accusing the current governor of failing to address subway crime. “Voters respond to leadership. And they respond to a lack of leadership. Right now, the silence out of … the governor’s office on subway crime is deafening,” DeRosa said on … Read more
A Princeton University student has been missing since early Friday morning — and school officials on Tuesday issued a renewed request for the public’s help in locating her. Ivy Leaguer Misrach Ewunetie was last spotted around 3 a.m. near Scully Hall, a residential building on the New Jersey campus, according to the school. The first alert … Read more