Bronx

The note from the person who spent the night in the car read: “Thank you for letting me sleep in your car for the night. Lock your doors next time”

A 21-year-old man from Florida has been arrested on an assault charge for allegedly slashing a 60-year-old woman across the forehead and eyes in an unprovoked attack in the Bronx last week, the NYPD said Sunday. The woman was walking on the sidewalk on East Tremont Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when the stranger came up from behind and tapped…

A gas explosion at a condo unit in the Bronx has left nine people injured, six of whom are children, fire officials said.

A city Department of Buildings spokesperson said mechanics were performing modernization work on the elevator when it fell down the shaft and crushed one of the mechanics

An NYPD officer was shot in the back in Bronx Tuesday night, a senior NYPD official said

The case of a missing New York City mother turned into a murder investigation after police identified a body found over the summer as Rachel Lopez. Lopez’s family reported her missing in September of 2019. Months later on July 27, 2020, the decomposed remains of the mother of four were found behind a building on Intervale Avenue in Longwood, police...

The man who experienced a real-life New York City nightmare — falling into a rat nest after the sidewalk collapsed beneath his feet, leaving him too terrified to scream and risk having the rodents crawl into his mouth — is suing the city and a building landlord

New York City sheriffs broke up an unlicensed fight club Saturday night, finding more than 200 people drinking, smoking and fighting — without social distancing — at the “Rumble in the Bronx.” Deputy sheriffs entered the Coster Street commercial warehouse about 11:15 p.m. and found a massive crowd “watching and participating in an amateur fighting event.” “Patrons were also observed…

Two newborn boys who were found dead on the patio of a Bronx building Monday afternoon likely were born less than 24 hours earlier, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation told News 4 Tuesday. Detectives feel strongly that the newborns were twins, but they are awaiting confirmation from the medical examiner’s office. They are also awaiting a…

Authorities are investigating the deaths of two newborn boys who were found wrapped in brown paper on the patio of a Bronx building Monday afternoon, police officials say. According to police, the superintendent of the multi-story building on College Avenue in the Concourse section found the baby boys, both thought to be only a week old, on the patio just…

It has been in business for almost 100 years, but the owner of a Bronx sporting goods store said they are being kicked to the curb by a multi-billion dollar company at a time when he says he needs support from them the most

Parents often say they’d do anything for their children, even take a bullet. Few ever have to face such danger, but when bullets started flying inside a car dealership in the Bronx Monday night, one father did exactly that

People inside are sent fleeing for safety, while the startled father grabs his children and pulls them to the ground in an instinctive move, covering them with his body to put himself between them and the danger

More than a year after 32-year-old Kawaski Trawick was shot twice in his own apartment by two NYPD officers, the Bronx District Attorney said Thursday that investigators found no criminality in Trawick’s death. Trawick’s mother, Ellen Trawick, said she was “heartbroken and outraged” that Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark chose not to charge Officers Brendan Thompson and Herbert Davis for...

An 18-year-old was arguing with his assailant before the suspect stabbed him three times, poured an accelerant on him and set him ablaze, police said

Authorities are investigating the death of a man who was found wrapped in a plastic bag on the roof of a McDonald’s in the Bronx early Wednesday, police say. Cops got a 911 call about an unconscious person on the roof of the fast-food restaurant on East 149th Street shortly before 6 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene….

Police and firefighters made a gruesome discovery on the side of the Hutchinson River Parkway early Monday — a man’s body on fire, his hands bound behind his back. The NYPD and FDNY got the call just after midnight for a fire on the northbound Hutch near exit 6, in the general area of Co-Op City. Once the flames were…

A teenage girl is dead and three others are recovering from gunshot wounds after a late-night attack at a Bronx park Friday, police said — and authorities now believe she was an innocent bystander. Just after 11 p.m. Friday, police responded to a call of shots fired in Shoelace Park and found four people injured: a 15-year-old boy shot in…

Large groups of protesters defied New York City’s new, earlier curfew as crowds were seen still marching in different locations after 8 p.m. Tuesday — but there were very few reports of looting, violence or rampant vandalism that plagued the city just one night before. One large crowd was seen making their way from Brooklyn over the Manhattan Bridge just…

The Bronx remains one of the places hit hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak, and very few places have been hit as hard as Co-Op City