Akeedo Nyron Fisher (left), 18, of Blake Avenue in Brooklyn left the Brooklyn Transition School on Ellery Street yesterday afternoon and disappeared. Fisher has Downs Syndrome, a speech impedime...
Continue reading "Missing Persons: Akeedo Nyron Fisher, 18; Diamond Morales, 15" > [...]There were gay families, there were straight families, and there were both the young and the old. There were [...]
Yesterday afternoon a British-born DJ residing in Brooklyn was struck and killed in Greenpoint while riding her bike to her day job at a florist. She was two blocks from her apartment, riding westbound on Nassau Ave. when a flatbed truck headed in the same [...]
View Larger Map DATE: Monday Dec. 7, 2009, 1:10 p.m. LOCATION: 160 Menahan St., Brooklyn. A 50-year-old woman was stabbed to death during an apparent robbery yesterday afternoon at the above add...
Continue reading "Somebody Got Murdered: Brooklyn Woman Stabbed in Broad Daylight (Update)" > [...]
Yesterday afternoon we received an alert from the Department of Health regarding rabid raccoons taking over Central Park! Dun dun dun. They have officially issued a warning, and tell us there are three raccoons (so far!) identified as being rabid — one in recent months, [...]
Yesterday afternoon, a man was pinned by a train that apparently ran over him on the northbound 4/5 express tracks at the Union Square subway station. A reader told us, "The train was stopped and all you could see was the man's legs." Today, [...]
Photograph by Glark on Flickr
Fine, the snow didn't stick, but snowflakes did come down starting yesterday afternoon, after a rather miserable rainy wet morning. One person told NY1, "It's like winter, might as well feel like winter." Indeed! But in' [...]
Some more details have emerged about yesterday afternoon's three-car accident on the Bruckner Expressway that claimed the life of a SUV driver and left former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw unharmed but shaken. According to the Daily News, the [...]
Yesterday afternoon it was reported that Ken Ober, best known as the host of MTV's Remote Control, died on Sunday at the age of 52. The cause of death hasn't been announced, but his agent has come out with some details, saying: "His body'" [...]
A 15-year-old Bronx teen, not too far from her school in the Morrisania section, was shot in the head by a stray bullet yesterday afternoon. She had apparently walked into a dispute between two men—the Daily News reports, "As Vada Vasquez underwent emergency brain" [...]
A deranged cat, from Jen Chung's flickr
A Midtown family was held hostage by its pet cat until rescue workers were able to trap the feline yesterday afternoon. It all started at around 3 pm, when Carmen — a 16-pound Russian blue [...]
