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A 25-Year-Old Got in a Taxi Outside an NYC Gay Bar. He Was Dead an Hour Later.
Social worker Julio Ramirez, 25, met up with a friend on April 20 for a night out in Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood near Times Square in New York known for its lively restaurant and bar scene. Now, more than a month later, Ramirez’s family and friends are left with more questions than answers as they try to piece together...
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Smoke Bombs Used in Other Mass Shootings
The gunman who shot multiple people in a New York City subway car Tuesday morning set off a smoke canister in the train as he began shooting, according to authorities. At least 10 people were shot on the subway as it approached the 36th Street and Fourth Avenue station in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn around 8:30 a.m. Five…
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Connecticut State Police Dispatched to Several Locations in Response to NYC Subway Shooting
Connecticut State Police have been dispatched to several locations in the state in response to the mass shooting incident on a subway in Brooklyn, New York Tuesday morning. A man wearing a gas mask and a green construction-type vest opened fire on a train as it approached the 36th Street and Fourth Avenue station around 8:30 a.m., shooting several people…
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Renter of Van Named as Person of Interest in NYC Subway Shooting Probe
A gunman in a gas mask and construction vest set off smoke grenades and fired a barrage of bullets in a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn, wounding at least 10 people Tuesday, authorities said. Police were trying to track down the renter of a van possibly connected to the violence.
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Suspect in Brooklyn Subway Shooting Arrested
The New York Police Department said suspect Frank James was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan.
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Cheslie Kryst, Miss USA 2019, ‘Extra' Correspondent, Dies at 30
Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst and ‘Extra’ correspondent died at 30 years old. Police found her unresponsive on the ground outside of her apartment in Manhattan.
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‘Malfunctioning Space Heater' Caused a Fire That Killed At Least 19 People, Including 9 Children, in NYC
At least 19 people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city’s fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory
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In US First, NYC Opening Supervised Drug Injection Sites
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that overdose prevention center (OPC) services, aimed at reducing overdose deaths — a public health issue that the country as a whole has been grappling with and seen a dramatic increase of during the pandemic — will open in New York City. OPCs, also referred to as supervised injection or supervised drug consumption sites,…
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Federal Judge Blocks Vaccine Enforcement for NYC School Staff
The requirement to receive at least one dose of the COVID vaccine was supposed to go into effect by Sept. 27, 2021.
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Unvaxxed Brazil Leader Eats Pizza Outside as NYC Indoor Vax Mandate Still in Place
Taking a bite out of a slice of an authentic New York City pizza is seemingly a rite of passage for anyone who visits the Big Apple. Just ask Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro.
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‘Survivors – Found': Listen to Powerful Poem Penned Days After 9/11 Attack
Poet Joan Murray wrote “Survivors – Found” on an NYC-bound Amtrak train four days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She met some firemen who were on their way to look for survivors and was inspired to write about those who survived that day. Twenty years later, we look back on that day through her words.
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‘Tiger King' Zookeeper Found Dead in Brooklyn: Officials
One of the zookeepers featured on the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King” has been found dead in Brooklyn, police officials tell News 4 New York.
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All-Clear Issued After Times Square Evacuated for Suspicious Container
A portion of Times Square was evacuated Thursday afternoon after something was thrown toward people sitting on the “red steps” in Father Duffy Square, but police gave the all-clear around 1 p.m. Law enforcement sources say a man riding a bicycle threw a red cookie tin toward people sitting on the steps around noon, prompting them to flee. Police checked…
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Cuomo Issues Executive Order Declaring Gun Violence in NY a Disaster Emergency
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued the first-in-the-nation Executive Order declaring gun violence in New York as a Disaster Emergency — the first step in a comprehensive plan that aims to tackle the surge in gun violence throughout the state. The announcement was made at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan in New York Tuesday afternoon. The disaster emergency…
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The Stonewall Inn: How a 1969 Uprising Made an NYC Bar a Landmark
Fifty-two years ago, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village was an underground gay bar where a police raid sparked a rebellion that fueled the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
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The Empire State Building Celebrates 90th Birthday
The Empire State Building is considered by many to be the world’s most famous building.
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MTA: Bus Driver Refuses Drug Test After Careening Off Bridge
Authorities are investigating what caused a New York City bus to plunge off a bridge in dramatic fashion
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NYC to Sever City Contracts With Trump Organization Over President's ‘Criminal Act'
New York City will sever all of its management contracts with the Trump Organization, costing the outgoing president millions of dollars in annual revenue, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. De Blasio said the contracts allowed the city to break them if a vendor’s leadership broke the law, and said Trump’s “inciting an insurrection” was clearly a “criminal act.”...
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NYPD: Man Shot, Killed on Eve of His 21st Birthday
One man is dead and two others are in the hospital after a shooting outside a hotel in Queens early on New Year’s Day, police say. Authorities say they got a call about the shooting outside hotel at 82nd Avenue and Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens about 1 a.m. When they arrived, they found three men with gunshot wounds....