HERE at TNT Scrap Metal, a junkyard that sits on a desolate industrial stretch along the Brooklyn-Queens border in East Williamsburg, everything has a price. Even a statue of Jesus Christ goes for about 30 cents a pound. Sabas Blanco, who works at the ...
They expected sandy beaches and azure waters. Instead, hundreds of cruise ship passengers debarked on Saturday in New York City into the path of a tropical storm that they had just spent eight days trying to avoid on a trip to the Caribbean. “It was a ...
For more than three decades, Nicholas Nowillo was known on the quiet street in Queens where he raised his family as someone always willing to lend a helping hand. And so it was only natural that he obliged on Wednesday night when a frightened neighbor ...
A man and a woman who had custody of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy officials said was sexually abused and beaten to death were arraigned Sunday afternoon on assault charges. During the hearing in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Nymeen Cheatham, 30, and ...
A Brooklyn store owner who struck a 15-year-old boy in the head with a hammer was indicted on felony assault charges on Friday, although his lawyer said he acted in self-defense. The store owner, Salah Ahmed, owner of Munchies Deli in Brownsville, hit ...
The body of a woman who had been slashed to death was discovered on Monday on a Brooklyn street, about 30 feet from her car, and her 1-year-old son was found unharmed in the car, the police said. The woman, identified as Iasha Bristol, 27, of ...
A Brooklyn grocery store owner was charged with assault on Monday for hitting a 15-year-old boy in the head with a hammer during a confrontation at his store, the police said. The store owner, Ahmed Salah, 36, was dozing in the back of his store, ...
After the last massive section of crane slid into place late Sunday afternoon at a construction site in Brooklyn, Thomas Auringer, the owner of the company that pulled off the feat without a hitch, sat on the bed of a pickup across the street, swinging ...
A Queens couple faced criminal charges on Wednesday in connection with the death of their infant daughter in October, the authorities said. Their daughter, Annie Li, was 10 months old when she died on Oct. 28, two days after she was put on life support ...
He was a stranger to most of the men and women with whom he worked, and he died a stranger. And early Tuesday, exactly 20 years after he was gunned down in the line of duty, Officer Edward Byrne was honored by strangers. Nearly 200 people, most of them ...
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