2024-04-19 00:16:44 NEW YORK — Police arrested more than 100 people at Columbia University on Thursday at a makeshift camp set up by pro-Palestinian protesters on the university’s main lawn. It was the second day of protests on and off Columbia’s campus in Upper Manhattan after students set up the unsanctioned tent city. Police spent … Read more
2023-12-10 20:37:13 A hate crime investigation is underway in Manhattan after an apparent accidental bump escalated to a violent attack at a pharmacy chain location last week. Police say the incident took place at a Duane Reade in lower Manhattan, on John Street, around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. A 66-year-old man bumped into another man … Read more
2023-12-04 01:30:00 Metro By Kevin Sheehan, Joe Marino and Isabel Keane Published Dec. 3, 2023 Updated Dec. 3, 2023, 2:38 p.m. ET An unhinged man used a steak knife to butcher four of his relatives — including an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy — and set their Queens house ablaze before he injured two … Read more
2023-10-27 01:39:00 NEW YORK — A 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by an NYPD tow truck while on his way to school with his mother Thursday in Brooklyn. Surveillance video shows the boy, identified as Kamari Hampton, riding a scooter on a crosswalk at the intersection of North Portland and Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene. … Read more
2023-10-27 03:28:00 NEW YORK — The NYPD is stepping up patrols out of an abundance of caution as the manhunt for the Maine shootings suspect continues, all while officers are still monitoring demonstrations related to the Israel-Hamas war. Police sources tell CBS New York they believe Maine shootings suspect Robert Card has some connection to … Read more
2023-10-06 03:24:00 NEW YORK — The NYPD says Brian Dowling, an 18-year-old Brooklyn man, has been charged with murder in the deadly stabbing of public policy activist Ryan Carson. Dowling faced a judge Thursday night, arraigned on a second-degree murder charge. The judge denied bail. Only CBS New York was on the scene when Dowling was … Read more
2023-08-05 02:36:10 Thousands of people took to Manhattan’s Union Square on Friday afternoon hoping to meet one of Twitch’s most popular streamers at a PlayStation giveaway event. Countless people were injured when chaos broke out and it took several hours for the police to gain control of the park. 11 photos 1/11 A smashed windshield … Read more
2023-06-17 03:52:35 NEW YORK — Police say a teenager on the streets of Manhattan was fatally struck by a truck Friday afternoon, and what happened next left witnesses shocked. The truck driver remained on the scene after hitting the 18-year-old bicyclist around 12:40 p.m. in Gramercy, the man visibly distraught on the bench of a … Read more