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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who campaigned on a safety platform and entered office to a wave of brutality, unveiled a comprehensive plan Monday to try and reduce gun violence in the city. “The Blueprint to End Gun Violence” is a 15-page document that outlines what the mayor said was a comprehensive strategy to get guns off the street,…

Mayor Eric Adams said the NYPD would launch new neighborhood safety teams focused on gun violence in the next three weeks, targeting 30 precincts where the mayor said 80% of violence takes place.

A teen boy is fighting for his life after a shooting at his family’s bodega in Brooklyn. Gaby Acevedo reports.

Two NYPD officers were shot and injured in the Bronx Wednesday evening while confronting an armed suspect with a long criminal history and a stolen gun. Jessica Cunnington reports.

Police in New York City are looking for an individual they say shot another man in a wild shooting that took place in broad daylight earlier this month. On Nov. 11, shortly before 11 a.m., the unknown person shot a 36-year-old man in his stomach, causing serious injury on Holland Avenue in the Bronx, according to NYPD. Surveillance video from…

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the neck by a 36-year-old man as the teen was on his way to school, police said. NYPD sources told News 4 New York the shooting happened around 7:20 a.m. near 223rd Street and Bronxwood Avenue on Tuesday. It does not appear the boy and the man knew each other. Surveillance video shows the…

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the neck on his way to school. Erica Byfield reports.

Police are lookng for two suspects after a terrifying, caught-on-camera shooting on Staten Island. Jessica Cunnington reports.

Cops are looking for a gunman in black seen on camera firing multiple shots directly into a Staten Island hair salon, earlier this week, grazing a 17-year-old girl in the head and hitting another woman in the buttocks, authorities say. The shots were fired into Buosso African Hair Braiding on Victory Boulevard in the middle of the afternoon Wednesday, shortly…

New surveillance video released by the NYPD shows the moments a gunfire fired into a salon on Staten Island, grazing a 17-year-old victim and striking a 35-year-old woman.

Cops are looking for a gunman seen on camera firing multiple shots directly into a Staten Island hair salon, earlier this week, grazing a 17-year-old girl in the head and hitting another woman in the buttocks, authorities say.

A person of interest is being questioned in connection with a shooting outside New York’s Penn Station earlier this week that left a bystander wounded, according to a high-ranking law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation. The person who was wounded was a 58-year-old bystander who happened to be walking in front of the NJ Transit entrance...

Police are showing New Yorkers a new look of the suspect in a terrifying shooting in Penn Station. Marc Santia reports.

Police are searching for a drive-by shooter who opened fire on a group of men during a dice game in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. Tracie Strahan reports.

New York is investing $16 million to fund workforce training and job placement programs in 20 cities most impacted by gun violence in an attempt to make them safer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. This initiative will directly help 3,200 youth in Captial Region, Central New York, Finger Lakes, Long Island, Mid-Hudson, and Western New York, and builds on the…

Hundreds of jobs will be available for at-risk youth in Brooklyn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday — all in an attempt to curtail the spike in gun violence that has been plaguing the city in recent months. The 506 jobs will be available for at-risk youth in seven ZIP codes that make up the zone. The ZIP codes are: 11206,…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the predicted Democratic nominee for NYC Mayor Eric Adams are meeting to discuss the rise in gun violence in the city. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

A teenager has been arrested in the June Times Square shooting of a 21-year-old upstate Marine, according to two senior NYPD officials

The NYPD has released video of a suspect in another Times Square shooting that wounded an innocent bystander. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Yet another innocent bystander was wounded by gunfire in the heart of Times Square over the weekend. Now the mayor is unveiling a new program to address what he describes as an “unacceptable state of affairs” regarding gun violence. No arrests have been made in Sunday’s shooting of a 21-year-old upstate Marine in town for a baptism who was...