Harlem

Two people were killed and another seriously injured after a home invasion led to a police-involved shooting in Harlem, according to police and fire officials

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Police responding to a call about criminal mischief at a Harlem building found an emotionally disturbed man in his 30s setting fire to a ninth-floor hallway, officials say. Once cops subdued him, they found a body in an open apartment. The initial call to the building on 120th Street came in around 4:20 a.m. Saturday. The man was said to…

After a fire broke out at a New York City apartment building, the NYPD found a man stabbed to death inside. Adam Harding reports.

Police responding to a call about criminal mischief found an emotionally disturbed man setting fire to a hallway, officials say. Once cops subdued him, they found a body in an open apartment. Ken Buffa reports.

NYC’s hallowed outdoor courts, which are as much a part of the city’s basketball culture as the Knicks and Madison Square Garden, could remain silenced into summer, threatening annual leagues and events

The NYPD says a transgender woman was stabbed in the neck in Harlem early Saturday morning. Police say the 33-year-old victim was stabbed at the corner of E 128th Street and 3rd Avenue around 1:30 a.m. When officers arrived they found the woman with a stab wound in the neck and transported her to a nearby hospital in Harlem where…

At least one man has died and 16 people were injured early Friday morning after a fire broke out inside an underground subway station in Manhattan. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

New York City police say they have arrested the man accused of a bloody slashing of a French tourist on Valentine’s Day. The victim was in town to surprise his girlfriend and the couple had just left an IHOP in Harlem, according to the Post, when Khalief Young, 28, allegedly slashed the 27-year-old victim in the neck near 132nd Street…

The video shows the tense moments after a naked man fired a shot that struck an officer in his bulletproof vest. The officer grappled with the suspect on the ground before other officers opened fire, killing the suspect. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

2020 marks 100 years since the start of the Harlem Renaissance. Pat Battle speaks with Liz Player, the founder of the Harlem Chamber Players, about this month’s celebrations.

A grand jury will soon begin hearing evidence in connection with the Manhattan park murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors, two sources familiar with the investigation told News 4 Wednesday. A 13-year-old boy has already been charged with second-degree murder in the case. Officials are looking into whether two other teens believed to be connected to the brutal killing…

Rafael Ruiz has been freed from prison since 2009, but has been seeking freedom from being marked as a convict for the rest of his life

While he has been out from behind bars since 2009, Rafael Ruiz wanted his name cleared for a 1985 sexual assault that he always maintained he didn’t commit, and led him to spending 25 years in prison. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Police say they are searching for a man in connection to a shooting in Manhattan that left one person dead and two others injured, police say. The violent incident took place on 135th Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem at around 2 p.m. Thursday. According to police, a 27-year-old man, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and leg,…

Two suspects trying to get away from police following an armed robbery crashed into several cars, including a taxi, on a major thoroughfare through Harlem. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

The boyfriend of a 6-year-old New York City boy’s mother was found guilty of murder and other counts in the child’s death, ending one of the highest-profile child abuse cases the city has seen over the past few years

The boyfriend of 6-year-old Zymere Perkin’s mother was found guilty of murder, manslaughter and child endangerment, and now faces life in prison for the horrific high-profile death. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Five people were injured, one seriously, after a fire broke out at an apartment building in Harlem, the FDNY said.  The fire started in the living room of an apartment on the third floor of 480 Convent Avenue, near West 151st Street, around 1 a.m. Wednesday, the department said.  The flames quickly spread to other apartments in the building, according…

Fire officials say a fire that started in an apartment’s living room in Harlem injured five people. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.