The man was attacked while trying to swipe through a turnstile at the West 42 Street and Broadway subway station.
The fire caused heavy smoke in the area near Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, but nobody was injured.
The man fled the train when the boy's sister tried to get help from the train's conductor. He was arrested a day later.
A tourist dropped his engagement ring down a utility grate during a botched proposal. Twitter helped find him.
Police are trying to identify a man who was rubbing his crotch on an N train.
The NYPD will deploy uniformed officers, counterterrorism units and drone-intercepting technology to watch over the annual spectacle.
The fire broke out in a 15-story apartment building on East 54th Street shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday.
He shushed his victim who woke up to find the intruder grabbing his penis, police said.
The man is wanted in connection with break-ins at three Midtown businesses.
The assault and robbery occurred in the basement of Quality Meats on West 58th Street.
A man rushing to catch a train knocked 89-year-old Kurt Salzinger to the ground. The Hofstra professor died weeks later.
A man swiped a travel mug from a Midtown Starbucks without paying for it. When an employee confronted him, the man pulled a knife.
A woman has been lifitng wallets and using stolen credit cards to make purchases at Herald Square stores such as Uniqlo, H&M and Macy's.
Akayed Ullah, of Brooklyn, detonated a pipe bomb device in a tunnel underneath Port Authority in December 2017.
A man shopping at Macy's Herald Square was attacked and robbed inside the store by two unknown men.
The NYPD bomb squad responded to Grand Central Terminal to investigate a package found in a men's bathroom.
A fire in the basement of the McGraw Hill Building on West 42nd Street resulted in traffic closures near Port Authority.
The man was shot by police after striking an off-duty officer in the head with a meat cleaver in 2016.
Police are trying to identify the man wanted for the disgusting act.
Cops are investigating a shooting at 59th Street and Madison Avenue, a block from Bloomingdale's.
Another mail bomb was discovered Friday morning at a post office on West 52nd Street.
The brazen thief was caught on camera casually reaching behind a display case and pocketing the jewelry.
The 28-year-old went to the building the morning after flying his drone through a window and was arrested.
The woman was last seen leaving the Hell's Kitchen supportive housing shelter where she lived.
Two men are wanted in connection with a stabbing that occurred a block away from Times Square.
The 71-year-old diner employee was hit with a bottle when he tried breaking up a fight inside the business.
Multiple reports identified the man as the father of two children beaten in Queens.
The "minor slow speed train derailment" occurred around 6:45 p.m. and forced NJ Transit to suspend service in and out of New York.
DEA and New York State Police officers pulled over a vehicle on the highway as part of an investigation into a drug trafficking ring.
Emergency responders pulled one worker into the building through a window, FDNY said.
Two muggers followed a man on the subway to Sunset Park and claimed they were undercover police officers as they robbed him.
A woman was walking down a train station staircase when she was groped, police said.
The two men broke into the Horus Too Hookah Bar through a basement entrance, police said.
A man followed a woman into the bathroom of a bar and strangled her until she lost consciousness.
The 70-year-old victim was hospitalized following the mugging.
Nobody was injured when two steel beams fell from a crane near 12th Avenue and West 34th Street, city officials said.
The 28-year-old NYPD cop sued the Port Authority for rejecting his job application.
The man broke into the Midtown home of David Fallarino, who has business ties with former Trump aide Paul Manafort.
The woman is accused of starting a fire in a hotel room and two garbage cans on separate floors at the Staybridge Suites hotel.
A swarm of bees took over a hot dog stand on Broadway and West 43rd Street, forcing police to block off the sidewalk.