All news by author: Amanda Woods

According to police, Dilmania Lopez de Rodriguez was hit shortly after midnight while attempting to cross Bruckner Boulevard at the intersection with Leggett Avenue in Mott Haven, within the designated crosswalk

A violent straphanger pummeled a 64-year-old woman when she confronted him about illegally smoking on a Bronx train, cops said – as they released footage of the still-at-large brute.

A Queens woman confronted by the violent repeat offender who later tried to carjack another driver – sparking a wild scene that ended with an NYPD detective shot by friendly fire Friday – slammed New York's lax-on-crime system, seething that “this person should be locked up.”

According to law enforcement sources, the victim, residing on 124th Street close to 25th Avenue in College Point, had recently purchased a blue 2018 BMW from Facebook Marketplace for $6,000 in cash

A man from Ohio wearing a "Beavis and Butthead" T-shirt was arrested for tossing a sex toy from the stands during a New York Liberty game

The group of 1,093 individuals is the largest class to join the NYPD academy since 2016 and sets a new record for the biggest group of recruits hired during Mayor Eric Adams' term

Over the weekend, a man hiding near Times Square strangled a 21-year-old woman until she lost consciousness and then attempted to assault her, according to police and law enforcement sources

New NYPD bodycam footage captures the instant two courageous officers dive into the water near the Rockaways, chasing after a suspected car thief from Queens who leaped in to evade capture

Emergency Services Unit Det. Daniel Dongvort, 38, and Sgt. Bryan J. Vesely, 34, — who leapt to action, busting down doors and ushering victims to safety on July 16 — were hailed as “the best of the best” by commissioner Jessica Tisch at the packed ceremony.

According to the NYPD, late Wednesday night, a 44-year-old woman was fatally hit by a distracted driver turning into a driveway in the Bronx

Floral Park resident Ryan Fitzgerald and Palm Springs, Calif., Barbara Keating, as well as a third person whose family did not their name publicly released were identified as 9/11 victims.

A whopping 965 new NYPD cops filed into Madison Square Garden on Tuesday for their police academy graduation in a hopeful sign the department is turning a corner on its persistent staffing crisis.

A dead woman was found floating in the East River near the South Street Seaport on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

The man, who has not been identified pending family notification, got into a knife fight with his 40-year-old husband inside the apartment on West 138th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, law enforcement sources said.

Gunman Shane Tamura fired nearly 50 bullets when he stormed the Park Avenue skyscraper in search of the NLF headquarters, killing an NYPD officer.

Isaiah K. Gurley, 29, was taken into custody at approximately 8:20 p.m. on Monday after a vigilant shopper at the Queens Center Mall noticed him, identified as the suspected animal abuser, wearing the same maroon POLO hoodie, and contacted 911, according to authorities and sources

Mayor Eric Adams mentioned on Tuesday that an examination of the body of Shane Tamura, the morally corrupt shooter, could potentially include testing his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Brave New York City firefighter Matthew Goicochea, known for rescuing a woman in a wheelchair from a burning building, tragically lost his life on Thursday. He crashed his moped on the FDR Drive and was hit by a driver who fled the scene

According to police, Justine Randall-Pizarro is accused of taking control of the locked N train shortly after 4 a.m. on June 17 at the Broadway station in Astoria, then driving it to the 36th Avenue stop

A Correction officer found the man – whose name has not been released pending family notification – lying on the floor of a restroom inside the Eric M. Taylor Center, according to the city’s Department of Correction.

A woman with dreadlocks reportedly broke into a stationary MTA subway train at Broadway station in Queens and drove it for one stop in the early morning before disappearing, according to police

Police reported that the man was found unconscious and not responding at the back of the store on Port Richmond Avenue near Catherine Street at approximately 9:50 a.m. Saturday

Joseph Meeks, 76, engaged in a dispute with the 27-year-old taxi driver about the fare right outside the senior living center where he resides on Nelson Avenue near West 169th Street in Highbridge around 4:30 p.m., according to law enforcement

An NYPD drone recorded four children, one of them just 12 years old, engaging in subway surfing in The Bronx last week. This incident marked the department's 200th arrest for this hazardous activity since police began their crackdown in 2023

A teen girl escaped from NYPD custody – and is still on the run – while she was at a Brooklyn hospital Monday afternoon, cops said.