A woman was killed in Queens this morning when she jumped in front of an F train, said the FDNY. The incident happened around 6:30 a.m. She was struck at the Sutphin Boulevard and Hillside Avenue station in Jamaica, according to the MTA. RECOMMENDED STORIES Train fatally strikes MTA worker at Astoria subway station [...]
Following the Boston Marathon attack, the bombing suspects intended to detonate additional explosives in Times Square, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly today. Kelly said that information gathered from surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had initially indicated that he and his older brother were coming to New York to “party.” Yet after further [...]
A woman made a shocking discovering last night when she found unidentified remains in a discarded garbage bag next to an East Elmhurst home. According to police, the woman stumbled upon the remains around 7:15 p.m. near 99th Street and 31st Avenue. She kicked the bag to see what was inside and a glass jar [...]
Authorities have arrested and charged five girls in connection with an apparent mob attack on two middle school girls. Video of the incident went viral after being uploaded online. The April 12 incident started when Samantha Gonzalez and friend Christina Campos, both 14, walked through Astoria Park along with three others. Campos told Gonzalez she [...]
A Rego Park dentist has been charged with sexually abusing one of his female teen patients. The defendant, Bedros Yavru-Sakuk, 62, a Edgewater, New Jersey resident, allegedly touched the 19-year old woman inappropriately over her clothing repeatedly without her consent, said the district attorney’s office. The abuse took place between September 2012 and April 2013. “The [...]
An MTA worker was killed on the job when a subway train struck him in Astoria early this morning, said the transit agency. The signal maintainer, identified as 58-year-old Louis Moore of Hollis, was working on the system around 3:20 a.m. when a Parsons-Archer-bound E train entering the 46th Street and Broadway station fatally hit him. “An [...]
Debra Greene received a call at work last April that changed her life forever. Her oldest son, Theodore Malcolm Greene, had been shot on his way home by an unknown perpetrator and by the time she reached the hospital, Theodore was gone. One year later, there are still no answers for this grieving mother who [...]
A car slammed into an auto body shop near Citi Field Tuesday, leaving one dead and two injured. The vehicle’s 52-year-old driver was heading southbound on 126th Street between 35th and 36th avenues around 11:40 a.m. when his 1992 Toyota Corolla rear-ended another car, said police. After the impact, the Toyota veered across the northbound [...]
Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property within the U.S. resulting in death, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday afternoon. “Although our investigation is ongoing, today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston [...]
Police are looking for a suspect connected to a robbery in an elevator Thursday. The suspect followed a 14-year-old victim into the elevator around 3:40 p.m. of a building near Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard, police said. He asked the victim for her jewelry, cell phone and any money she had. Police said the suspect [...]
