Chinatown

A 46-year-old Guatemalan man has been indicted for allegedly setting fire to a spa in Chinatown, dousing the lobby with a flammable liquid and lighting it ablaze when an unidentified employee went to a back room and trapping that person inside, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Mario Lucas is charged with arson resulting in injury to another person, which carries a…

Disturbing video captured the moments a man attacked a woman after following her inside the Manhattan apartment building. News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

The NYPD released disturbing video of a sexual assault in Chinatown last weekend in hopes of getting the public’s help tracking down the perpetrator. Authorities said the man sexually assaulted the woman after pinning her against the wall of an apartment building near Market Street and Madison Street. The attack happened Sept. 24 around 8:30 p.m. The surveillance video shows…

A grisly discovery was made in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, after a man who was slashed to death was found right near a park and a school, according to police.

A man was found slashed to death near a park and school in Chinatown this morning. Gaby Acevedo reports.

The 5-alarm fire took more than 170 firefighters and nearly six hours to get under control.

Fire investigators are still working to determine the cause of a massive fire in Chinatown that caused extensive damage and hurt at least five firefighters. The fire started in the back of a building on Chatham Square and caused the third and fourth floors to collapse. First reports of flames came in around 11:45 p.m. Saturday. It took more than…

Plans to open a New York City homeless shelter later this year in Chinatown have been shuttered following community protests against its opening. City officials confirmed the news on Friday, following a growing outcry that resulted in public protests against the proposed shelter. “After reviewing planned shelter sites to open in Chinatown, we have decided to re-site this shelter capacity…

NYC Mayor Eric Adams said the city is committing $5 billion in additional funding for housing over the next decade.

Fire investigators have determined the cause behind an early morning fire that killed a 91-year-old woman and her son at a Chinatown building Friday, the FDNY said. By Saturday, fire marshals ruled the deadly blaze accidental, sparked extension cords. The apartment where the two victims were found had working smoke alarms at the time of the fire, the FDNY announced….

At least two people are dead following an apartment fire in Chinatown; four other were injured, including a firefighter who officials say fell through collapsed stairs. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

A mother and her adult son died after a raging blaze took over their apartment in a Chinatown building early Friday, officials said. Firefighters responding to a call at the Mulberry Street building around 3:45 a.m. encountered heavy flames on the fifth floor, the deputy assistant chief, John Sarrocco, said. The 91-year-old woman was found in the apartment in critical…

Romney Smith reports.

A man was stabbed to death in Chinatown after an argument over a game ended in bloodshed that involved a large knife or sword, police said.

Protesters took to the streets of Chinatown Thursday night, saying plans for a new homeless shelter on Grand Street are putting their safety at risk. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports on both sides of the debate.

Open 24 hours a day, protesters said they are worried the new Chinatown homeless shelter will attract sex offenders, and that crime could surge in an area that already lives in fear of anti-Asian hate crimes.

The man accused of brutally killing a woman he “mercilessly stalked” up six flights of stairs before quietly slipping into her Chinatown apartment was indicted for murder and other charges, the Manhattan district attorney said.

The memorial dedicated to the slain Chinatown woman has been damaged for a second time since the 35-year-old was stalked and murdered last month. A surveillance camera positioned near the site of the memorial for Christian Yuna Lee captured a man kicking at the community site early Thursday morning. The man is seen swinging at the memorial as he walks…

Eight days after Christina Yuna Lee was stalked and killed inside her apartment, the Chinatown community took up a challenge to run 35 miles in her memory. The group planned to run one mile Monday for every year of her life, circling around and around the very block where Lee lived. Organizers expected the group would need between 7 and…

Eight days after Christina Lee was stalked and killed inside her Chinatown home, a group of runners is completing 35 miles — one for every year of her life. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.