East Village

A man allegedly fired multiple times at police, who then fired at him as well. No one was struck by any of the shots, and the suspect was taken into custody. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A gunman shot multiple times at NYPD officers as they were in a marked police vehicle in the East Village Thursday evening, according to police.

A building on East 6th Street in the East Village known as Mascot Flats was rehabbed in the early 1980s, not long after President Jimmy Carter left the White House

Gus Rosendale reporting on the first building Jimmy Carter ever volunteered on with Habitat for Humanity.

The man police say was behind the beating of a 90-year-old Manhattan candy store legend, left bleeding on the ground outside his East Village shop he has run the last 50 years, has been arrested. Luis Peroza was arrested late Friday, days after Ray Alvarez, owner of the eponymous Ray’s Candy Store, was the victim of the 3 a.m. attack…

Someone accosted a 90-year-old Manhattan candy store legend after soliciting him on the street earlier this week, threatening to kill him and beating him bloody outside the East Village shop he has run the last 50 years, police say. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Ray Alvarez, now 90, opened Ray’s Candy Store on Avenue A in the East Village in 1974 — and he was attacked just outside his shop this week. Here’s what we know so far.

Someone accosted a 90-year-old Manhattan candy store legend after soliciting him on the street earlier this week, threatening to kill him and beating him bloody outside the East Village shop he has run the last 50 years, police say. The NYPD confirmed Thursday that Ray Alvarez, owner of the eponymous Ray’s Candy Store, was the victim in the 3 a.m….

The alleged suspect behind a deadly stabbing spree in December that stretched from the East Village to Harlem was indicted and faces a slew of charges, including two counts of murder.

Police say Roland Codrington stabbed and killed a man on Dec. 19 outside an East Village bar, then allegedly stabbed two people in East Harlem three days later. Police said he then stabbed a pediatrician more than 30 times at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem on Dec. 23, killing him.

Erica Byfield with the latest.

A Manhattan murder cold case stretching back more than 35 years is getting renewed attention from federal investigators and local police with a reward offering $25,000 for information leading to an arrest. Danny Liggett is the focus of a fugitive manhunt, wanted for the 1987 killing of Kissoon Adams in a drug-buy gone wrong. The FBI New York/NYPD Joint Violent…

A double shooting in Manhattan left one man dead and another with a gunshot wound to the leg, according to police.

The man seen wearing white shorts bearing the word “Rude” who robbed and tried to rape a woman inside her East Village apartment last weekend was arrested, police announced late Friday. Investigators say it was around 9 a.m. Sept. 4 when he followed a 53-year-old woman into her building and forced his way into her apartment. He allegedly took out…

For more than a week, residents at one of New York City’s largest public housing complexes drank, bath and cooked with water that may have contained dangerous levels of arsenic — and as testing continued Monday, residents were still left without clean water in their own homes. The latest round of tests showed no arsenic in the water supply of…

Police are looking for a man in white shorts bearing the word “Rude” who they say robbed and tried to rape a woman inside her East Village apartment over the weekend. Investigators say it was around 9 a.m. Sunday when he followed a 53-year-old woman into her building, and forced his way into her apartment. He allegedly took out a…

Residents at a NYCHA complex are still waiting on answers as bottle water is distributed to residents. News 4’s Adam Harding reports.

Residents at a Manhattan NYCHA building are without water after trace amounts of arsenic were discovered. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

This article was originally published on Sept 2 10:42pm EDT by THE CITY The city’s public housing authority discovered traces of arsenic in the tap water at one of its biggest developments in Manhattan, the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village, THE CITY has learned. Late Friday, NYCHA began distributing bottled water at the sprawling complex that houses 2,600…

A Brooklyn man allegedly behind Thursday’s ambush killing of a 25-year-old near Manhattan’s Union Square was arrested Saturday morning on murder charges, police sources said. Detectives had been investigating whether the shooter who gunned down Imani Armstrong was waiting for the woman to get off work at the IHOP on East 14th Street before shooting her from behind, a...