Upper West Side

The NYPD is promising a beefed-up presence outside of three Manhattan schools impacted by shootings, and police said that gangs are behind each of the shootings. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

NYPD officials believe the shootings across Manhattan on Tuesday were gang-related, News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

The victim was said to have been shot at least three times. Video posted to the Citizen app showed a heavy law enforcement response. Here’s what we know so far.

Three shootings near Manhattan schools in a span of five hours on Tuesday — which led to the schools being put on lockdown — were connected, according to the NYPD. The first gunshots rang out just before 10 a.m. on the Upper West Side, outside Martin Luther King High School on Amsterdam Avenue between West 67th and 68th streets. Police…

There is new information about who turned the suspect in to police, and why he was even on the street to begin with despite having a lengthy rap sheet. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

A man is in custody after a brutal assault and rape in an Upper West Side stairwell in the early hours of Saturday morning, police said — and the suspect has been tied to other crimes as well, including the attempted rape of a 16-year-old in 2019. Cops say Jamel McIver, 30, of East 121st Street, faces charges of rape,…

Neighbors on the Upper West Side are on edge after police say a man followed a woman into her apartment building and raped her this weekend. Cops are now searching for the suspect wanted in the 1 a.m. Saturday attack at a building near West End Avenue and West 65th Street, according to the NYPD. The suspect allegedly followed the…

News 4’s Myles Miller reports.

A repeat offender is being questioned after a man died from being pushed onto the tracks at the 96th Street station on the Upper West Side during a fight.

A man was pushed onto the tracks at an Upper West Side subway station while fighting with another man and later died from his injuries, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

The worker’s fall was still under investigation hours after a plunge from the 15th story. News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The victim who was attacked on an uptown 2 train says his girlfriend saved his life after she used her pepper spray on the attacker. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

A subway rider is hailing is girlfriend as a hero who saved his life after he was stabbed by a man armed with a kitchen knife in midtown Manhattan.

A 26-year-old was stabbed on a Manhattan subway with what cops believe was a kitchen knife during an argument with another rider late Wednesday, officials say, marking the latest incident of escalating violence in New York City’s transit system. According to police, the victim got into some sort of dispute with the stabber on a northbound 2 train at the…

Tracie Strahan reports on the latest attack in the NYC subway system.

NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A woman accused of aiding New York City-area gang members secure access to high-end apartments by using stolen identities was arrested this week, federal prosecutors announced. Investigators allege Latoya Williams forged housing paperwork, including pay stubs and tax documents, and left her victims with various rent and utility bills. Lawsuits and debt collections now face many of the woman’s...

A 36-year-old Manhattan man has been arrested on charges including attempted murder and assault in the shooting of a Danish tourist walking the streets of the Upper West Side over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday. Hayles Narada is also accused of reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon in the gunfire that wounded the tourist as he headed back…

A 36-year-old Manhattan man has been arrested on charges including attempted murder and assault in the shooting of a Danish tourist walking the streets of the Upper West Side over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday.

A Danish tourist walking the streets of Manhattan’s Upper West Side during the wee hours of Sunday morning was shot during a robbery gone wrong, police said. The man, 31, was at West End Avenue and West 103rd Street at 3:30 a.m. when he was approached by a man demanding his property. The tourist refused and kept walking, police said…