The man was playing with a lighter inside his tent on Broadway Monday morning when the tent erupted into flames, police said.
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Evonne Gonzeles, 65, was last seen at her building Tuesday at 648 West 160th Street, police say. Authorities are asking the public for help.
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Police are looking for two people who fired guns at Audubon Avenue and West 182nd Street on Wednesday afternoon.
A man is suing the city after he says officers plunged their hands down his pants and exposed his private parts during an unlawful search.
A blaze ignited in a building at 187 Pinehurst Avenue on Monday afternoon that caused all tenants to evacuate, the FDNY told Patch.
Police sent out pictures Tuesday night of four men wanted in connection to a recent robbery in Inwood.
An all-hands fire took place Monday morning within a residential Inwood building at 80 Seaman Avenue, the FDNY said.
The NYPD is looking for a man wanted in connection to a recent string of 12 jewelry robberies, nine of which were in Washington Heights.
Moments after a man opened fire on a group standing outside the 11:11 Restaurant & Lounge in Inwood, an officer shot the man repeatedly.
Early on Friday morning, a man was shot and killed at the intersection of West 177th Street and Wadsworth Avenue, police said.
In all, 198 fire and emergency medical personnel spent their Thanksgiving Eve at the scene, fighting the apartment building fire.
After a coming together in the Inwood store, a man stabbed a 47-year-old in the back twice moments later outside the deli, police said.
A Georgia man is in custody after authorities said he sold guns to an undercover officer, including this fall on Dyckman Street.
Nearly two dozen people were hurt in a fire Tuesday morning in a residential building at 600 West 186th Street, according to the FDNY.
After telling a man to drop his gun multiple times, police shot a man in Fort Washington Park on Sunday, the NYPD said.
Police said the boy was found after a blaze engulfed the basement and first floor of the building.
The fire broke out early Saturday morning in the superintendent's apartment of a building on 178th Street, according to a report.
Firefighters within a building at 729 West 186th Street were throwing burnt belongings out of broken windows onto scaffolding below.
The group forcibly took the three men's jewelry, cell phones, and wallets before fleeing toward West 204th Street, police said.
The suit is the end result of a two-year saga involving accusations of an inappropriate sexual relationship and buying ice cream.
A gun-toting robber took $9,000 from a man exiting his car in Washington Heights and shot him twice, police said.
A 68-year-old woman is in the hospital after she was hit Wednesday by a moped near Broadway and West 196th Street, NYPD said.
Luis Zapata was riding a Yamaha dirt bike in Washington Heights at the end of September when he crashed into a parked jeep, police said.
NYPD just revealed information about a man who they say is wanted for attacking and sexually assaulting two women in Highbridge Park.
Police found a 26-year-old man lying on the street with gunshot wounds in front of 469 West 164th Street early Thursday morning.