A pair of Staten Island police officers responding to an emergency call were rushed to the hospital after they lost control of their marked cruiser and slammed into the front of a Mexican restaurant, cops said Saturday. The crash comes just hours after a Manhattan cop was pinned between his cruiser and an out-of-control Dodge…
During the height of the pandemic, the founder of a city-funded nonprofit aiding people released from jail allegedly took $2.5 million in cash kickbacks, plus other gifts, including home and luxury car loan payments to funnel tens of millions in public funds to two corrupt businesspeople, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged Thursday. Julio Medina, the…
The attacker wanted for pushing a 33-year-old straphanger onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn more than a month ago has been busted, police said Tuesday. Andrew Pashinin, 19, was nabbed by warrants cops at a relative’s home in Yonkers. According to police, the suspect was recording video in the Atlantic Ave.-Barclays Center subway station on…
A Thanksgiving Day electrical fire that started in a manhole on a Brooklyn street quickly engulfed a vehicle parked above it — then caused flames to erupt in a fourth-floor apartment in a nearby building, FDNY officials said Thursday. The two-alarm blaze began in a manhole on Remsen St. near Hicks St. in Brooklyn Heights…
Cops have arrested the man they say swiped a $3,000 gold-plated rose from a 9/11 memorial at a Midtown church. Members of the NYPD’s Manhattan Warrant Squad grabbed Deikel Alcantara, 21, for Wednesday’s theft at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on W. 31st St. near Seventh Ave., down the block from Penn Station, cops said….
A 48-year-old homeless man died early Thursday after he caught fire on a Gramercy street, officials said. Cops and firefighters were called to the corner of E. 16th St. and Rutherford Place about 2:30 a.m. where they found the victim ablaze, officials said. Firefighters put out the fire and the man died at the scene,…