Assault

A 56-year-old Brooklyn woman has been arrested for allegedly hitting a 2-year-old boy multiple times in the face on a subway in Harlem last weekend. Police said Friday that Elizabeth Galarza had been charged with assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child in the attack on the toddler on a northbound C train entering the 116th Street…

A 29-year-old Brooklyn man has been charged in a 52-count indictment in seven separate attacks on women in East Williamsburg dating back to August, prosecutors said Wednesday. He allegedly targeted them both because they were women and because they were “light-skinned,” according to investigators. Khari Covington faces charges of assault, strangulation and burglary as hate crimes in addition to other…

Police are looking for a person seen hitting a 2-year-old boy multiple times in the face on a subway in Harlem over the weekend, authorities say. The suspect and toddler were on a northbound C train entering the 116th Street station around 3 p.m. Saturday when witnesses saw the child being attacked. The toddler suffered redness to the face and…

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…

Police are looking for a man who allegedly fired a gun at a driver who nearly hit him as he tried to cross a street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The suspect missed his target and left a 75-year-old woman with a bullet in the buttocks. Authorities say the suspect was trying to cross Clinton Street, near Delancey Street,...

Two men are under arrest after a bizarre attack in Madison Square Park on a woman who had a dirty diaper rubbed in her face. The NYPD said Wednesday that Juarde Benn, 20, of Brooklyn, and Saqunn Jackson, 23, of the Bronx, face a variety of charges including menacing, stalking and aggravated harassment. According to police, a group surrounded the…

The trio proceeded to kick the woman repeatedly; one bit her on the forehead, breaking the skin and leaving her with a bite mark on her face that required stitches — but her emotional wounds are still raw

A group of men swarmed, then attacked a mother as she left a store in Harlem. NBC New York’s Marc Sanita spoke to the victim about her traumatic attack. .

Police are looking for three unidentified men they say got into an argument with a 31-year-old woman at a Manhattan liquor store, beat her up when she left and bit her on the forehead before stealing her $750 iPhone, authorities say. The woman was in the liquor store on West 128th Street in Harlem shortly before 6 p.m. Monday when…

Police released surveillance video of the suspects inside the store and footage outside that shows them surround the woman. Grainy later footage shows what appears to be the attack in front of a white vehicle on the street, just off the sidewalk.

Police are looking for a man seen smashing an MTA bus windshield with his scooter in the Bronx.

Police are looking for a man seen on camera smashing an MTA bus windshield with his scooter late last month, leaving the driver with eye injuries from flying debris, authorities said. It’s not clear what prompted the Dec. 18 late-morning attack on the bus, which was on Lafayette Avenue at the time. Surveillance footage shows the man walk in front…

Police are looking for a man they say randomly whacked another man in the back of the head with a hammer as he waited for a southbound A train at a Manhattan subway station over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday. The 46-year-old victim was standing on the platform in the 175th Street Station around 11 a.m. Sunday when he was…

Police have arrested a new suspect in connection to a series of attacks on women that follow a similar pattern at a Brooklyn subway station since November. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A 28-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested in the brutal September beating of a 79-year-old man who died more than a month after the attack, officials say. James Woods was cuffed on an assault charge Wednesday in the beating of Angel Diaz, who was attacked outside his own apartment on Hoyt Street Sept. 13. Video surveillance showed Diaz trying to…

Police are searching for a man who randomly slashed a 24-year-old woman in the back of the head with some unknown object as she walked down the sidewalk early one morning last week in Brooklyn, authorities said Monday. Surveillance video shows the suspect approach the woman as she walks, unaware of him, along a sidewalk near Fulton Street and Franklin…

Surveillance video shows the suspect approach the woman as she walks, unaware of him, along a sidewalk. His hand moves by her head and he keeps moving as she immediately reaches to the back of her head with both hands.

A 51-year-old woman was randomly attacked by a stranger who hit her with a brick in Manhattan Thursday afternoon, authorities say. The woman was apparently attacked from behind on Third Avenue between 47th and 48th streets, not far from the Midtown offices of Sen. Chuck Schumer, around 2 p.m. Police say no words were exchanged prior to the alleged assault….

A 51-year-old woman was randomly attacked by a stranger who hit her with a brick in Manhattan Thursday afternoon, authorities say.