Investigations

A concert pianist who was violently assaulted in the Upper West Side is opening up about his attack and the Manhattan DA’s decision to not seek felony charges. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

Since the 1960s, New York City’s Public Health Laboratory building has been on the front lines of the fight against disease.  The facility at 455 First Avenue in Manhattan has been home to scores of government scientists who’ve battled everything from COVID-19 to tuberculosis, HIV, and Ebola.  Now, the aging public building is on the verge of being...

Chris Glorioso with the exclusive report for NBC 4’s I-Team. 

In the early days of 2023, while nurses were striking at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, 4-month-old baby Noah Morton died while in the hospital’s care. He was suffering from a complex heart condition in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), but his parents always questioned the sudden death.   They believed their baby had been stab...

Chris Glorioso with an exclusive report for News 4’s I-Team. 

Douglaston Development has declined to provide its own accounting of how many apartments in the building enjoyed Rent Stabilization protections before and after its purchase of the property.

Critical witnesses testified today at a hearing in Brooklyn where new evidence has surfaced in a decades-old murder case. News 4 New York’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

“None of us would have invested with Cesar if it had not been for Envy’s endorsement,” said Luis Hernandez, who paid $250,000 to invest.

The attorney for radio talk show host DJ Envy, whose real name is Rashaun Casey, is blasting investors who say they were victimized in a real estate scheme orchestrated by the celebrity’s former business partner. Sarah Wallace with an update for NBC New York. 

NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

In all, the MTA said A.I. cameras on the M79 and Bx35 routes mistakenly ticketed about 3,800 vehicles for blocking bus lanes. More than 870 of the faulty infractions were for cars, trucks, and SUVs that were parked in perfectly legal spots.

It was impossible for prosecutors, the courts and the city jail system to predict that that Ramon Rivera would be accused of killing three people a month after being released. But critics and criminologists say there were missteps — like a lenient offer by prosecutors and lack of focus on Rivera’s schizophrenia diagnosis — that in hindsight s...

A battle is breaking out among clergy inside the diocese of Brooklyn. An investigation has been underway into alleged misuse of church funds by a monsignor, and now recordings of private conversations involving a deacon using a racial slur are coming to light. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.