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NYPD Officer Shoots Armed Gunman Dead In The Bronx

The following is via Breaking911.com: Cops in the Bronx have just shot an armed man dead – less than 12 hours after cops shot an armed man in East Harlem. Highly credible sources confirm to Breaking911.com that uniformed officers assigned to the 56 precinct in the Bronx were dispatched to 2000 Valentine Ave (Twin Parks South West) at around 8:02AM, Wednesday morning, to a call of a man with a firearm. When they arrived, they found a 19-year-old female with a gunshot wound – and a ...

Numerous Injured When Buses Collide in Lincoln Tunnel [UPDATED 12:50PM ET]

A New Jersey Transit bus rear-ended a private bus carrying Canadian schoolchildren inside the Lincoln Tunnel on Wednesday, injuring more than 30 people and slowing traffic on one of the busiest routes for commuters entering and leaving New York City, authorities said. The crash happened at around 9:30 a.m. in the center tube on the New York side of the tunnel connecting it with New Jersey, said Joe Pentangelo, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police, which operates ...

Greenfield and Levine Denounce Rise in Anti-Semitic Crimes And Call for Security Guards for Schools

Councilman David G. Greenfield and Councilman Mark Levine condemned today the rise of anti-Semitic crimes citywide. This past year to date, anti-Semitic crimes throughout New York City have spiked 29 percent according to the NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force. In May, Councilman Greenfield's district saw three reported incidents of hate crimes. The first was two swastikas etched outside a local kosher supermarket and the second was four swastikas drawn in marker on a rail guard. Finally, and most ...

US Investigators Blame Gas, Sewer Lines In Deadly NYC Blast

A poorly crafted joint in a plastic Con Edison gas line and an 8-year-old break in an old city sewer line were the likely causes of an explosion that killed eight people in New York City last year, federal investigators said Tuesday. The weakness of the plastic pipe joint was exposed because the soil that supported it was washed away by groundwater flowing into a gaping hole in the brick sewer line, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Both Con Ed and the city took issue with ...

NYPD Witness Shooting In E. Harlem And Shoot Suspect

The following is via Breaking911.com: At 7:57PM on Tuesday evening, NYPD Officers from the “Special Victims Unit” were driving an unmarked vehicle and wearing plain clothes when they observed a male shoot another male and 102nd Street and 1st Avenue. The officers reportedly exited their vehicle and confronted the suspect. Highly credible sources tell Breaking911.com that the suspect turned his gun on one of the officers – leading to the oficer firing his weapon, striking the ...

NYC Demonstrators: Don't Hire More NYPD Officers

A small group of demonstrators is protesting at New York City Hall against the possibility of hiring 1,000 new police officers. More than a dozen folks chanted "No new cops!" Tuesday morning. Several of them held signs that singled out individual city councilmembers, demanding that they not "betray" their communities by advocating for more police officers. A council proposal to hire the new officers has become a sticking point in the new budget. Mayor Bill de Blasio has not ...

NY: Search for Escaped Inmates Shifts to Town 30 Miles Away

State and federal law officers searching for two killers who used power tools to break out of a maximum-security prison poured into a small town 30 miles away Tuesday after getting a report of a possible sighting. Dozens of officers with arms linked pushed through woods and fields in the town of Willsboro in an apparent attempt to drive their prey toward a road in a neighboring community. The road was lined with officers with rifles. State Police Capt. John Tibbitts Jr. would not say if ...

GOP Leader: NY Lawmakers Failing To Deal With Corruption

The leader of the New York state Assembly's Republican minority says lawmakers are missing an opportunity to address the "cloud" of corruption that's hung over the state Capitol for years. GOP leader Brian Kolb says Tuesday that there's still time for lawmakers to take up comprehensive ethics reforms before they adjourn next week. But he says he's not optimistic they will. The two men picked to lead the Assembly and Senate in January have been charged with corruption-related crimes and ...

Felder: Zero Tolerance for Passing Stopped School Bus

Senator Felder (D - Brooklyn) joined Senator John Bonacic (R,C,I - Mt. Hope) to pass legislation to protect school children. Senate Bill S1634 amends the vehicle and traffic law by increasing the penalties for passing a stopped school bus. “Passing a stopped school bus can, G-d forbid, kill or seriously injure children who may be getting on or off that bus,” said Senator Felder. “We must do everything in our power to ensure the safety of our children.” “How can it be that ...

NYPD Working To Increase Ranks Of Muslims In Department

New York City police officials are working to recruit more Muslims. Right now, there are about 800 Muslim uniformed police officers out of about 35,000. Of those, only about 20 are higher ranked officials. The commanding officer of the community affairs immigration outreach unit, Lt. Adeel Rana, said Monday there's been a slow increase over the past decade. But that's changed quickly since the new administration took over. In addition to the department's youth cricket league and ...

Undercover NYPD Detective Accused In NYC Biker Melee With SUV Driver Is Convicted Of Lesser Charges

An undercover New York Police Department detective accused of taking part in a motorcyclists-versus-SUV melee has been acquitted of the most serious charges but convicted of lesser crimes. Detective Wojciech Braszczok and his co-defendant, Robert Sims, said they believed the SUV driver had just struck a biker and fled during the September 2013 rally. A judge on Tuesday found them not guilty of gang assault and first-degree assault but guilty of second-degree assault, coercion, riot and ...

Hikind's Home Safety Draws Standing-Room Crowd

A Free Fire Safety and Home Protection Event attracted hundreds of community residents on Sunday, June 7. Sponsored by Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), the event was specifically designed to offer vital and often overlooked information to residents in the hope of making them and their families as proactive as possible with regard to preventing fires. “The tragedy that one of our community’s families experienced impacted all of us on a very deep level,” Hikind told the crowd of ...

NYC's Oldest Standing Bridge Reopens To Bikes, Pedestrians

New York City's oldest standing bridge designed for pedestrians and bicyclists is reopening for the first time in 45 years. The High Bridge was built in the mid-1800s. It spans the Harlem River, connecting Manhattan's Washington Heights and the Bronx's Highbridge neighborhoods. Constructed as part of the Croton Aqueduct system, it became a popular promenade that attracted hotels, restaurants and amusement parks to the area. By the mid-1960s that all began to wane with construction of ...

NYPD Head: Crime Rise Isn't Because Of Stop-Frisk Decline

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton says a slight uptick in crime last month is not because of a drop in the department's use of the stop, question and frisk technique. For the month of May, shootings and homicides were up. That's prompted media reports and political hand-wringing that some of the practices embraced by Mayor Bill de Blasio were emboldening criminals. Bratton said Monday that is not the case. He cites 2011, when stops were at an all-time high of 685,000 ...

New York's Smoking Rates Reduced To Lowest Levels In Recorded State History

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that statewide smoking levels have been reduced to the lowest rate in recorded history as a result of the state’s wide-ranging tobacco cessation efforts. Data shows that in the last four years, the smoking rate among high school students has dropped 42 percent and now remains at 7.3 percent, while the adult smoking rate has dropped to 14.5 percent and remains below the national average of 17.8 percent. “With the lowest smoking rate in recorded ...

Orthodox Union, Agudath Israel, UJA-Federation Push for Passage of Historic Education Tax Credit Bill

Three major Jewish organizations joined together Monday to push for the passage of New York’s Parental Choice in Education Act. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed legislation would offer tax credits to families sending children to private school and those contributing to scholarship funds for these schools. In a press conference held outside the New York City Office of the Governor of the State of New York, representatives from the Orthodox Union, UJA-Federation of New York and Agudath Israel ...

Shots Fired At Two NYPD Officers In Queens

The following is via Breaking911.com: The NYPD says that two officers have been treated at a hospital after a man fired a gun at them in Queens. The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance identifying the following persons wanted in this incident. On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 1:45AM, a plainclothes sergeant and police officer assigned to the 101 Precinct were patrolling the Redfern Houses, when they observed six males standing in front of 14-30 Redfern Ave. The officers, looking to ...