The brute grabbed the woman by the neck and threatened to stab her with the pliers unless she coughed up cash, police said.
Casanova and Bobby Williams have been arrested in connection to an assault and robbery at the Good Stuff Diner, according to police.
Police arrested a New Jersey man suspected of pummeling two shoe store workers and rocketing wine bottles at a liquor store clerk.
The robber attacked the seniors at Reno Fashion in the West Village, striking one worker with glass jars and a ceramic pot, police said.
Rapper Casanova was arrested on a robbery charge Wednesday after he allegedly attacked a woman at a West Village diner, police said.
Police are searching for two men and a woman who viciously beat and choked a 22-year-old victim at the Good Stuff Diner.
The same kingpin allegedly ran the high-stakes gambling hall and a drug operation based in an East Village apartment.
Police found the woman's body sitting on a bench with no obvious injuries Wednesday night, officials said.
The thief has hit 15 buildings in Lower Manhattan and stolen $2,500 worth of packages, police said.
A man grabbed the woman's breast before fleeing the subway station.
The man allegedly hit his child on a West Village E train and then threatened a straphanger for calling him out for the child abuse.
The suspect allegedly smacked his child on a West Village E train and then threatened a man for calling him out on the abuse.
A 19-year-old smashed the historic bar's front window with a baseball bat after he was booted from the tavern.
Firefighters battled the blaze for nearly two hours before the flames were under control.
Police identified the man as 25-year-old Jackson Coe who worked in marketing for GrubHub.
A jury convicted a pervert Thursday of throwing a woman onto the subway tracks after he groped her chest and crotch.
A young man was found dead behind a West Village apartment building Thursday morning, authorities said.
The muggers shoved the 18-year-old to the ground, beat him and stole his backpack and cell phone.
Two indecisive gun owners tried to bizarrely abandon a black semi-automatic handgun in a L train rider's backpack.
Three men were shot in the West Village Sunday morning after a fight at the Falucka Lounge on Bleecker Street, police said.
The crook, Robert Taylor, was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly committing eight robberies since May 6, police said.
The disgraced celebrity chef is being investigated by police in New York City, the NYPD confirmed.
The teenager had been fighting with her parents about a party before jumping, according to a report.
The same man has broken into the Mimi restaurant and bar at least three times in recent weeks, according to police.
A man was punched and then hit over the head with a chair inside a Greenwich Village McDonald's, according to police.
A burglar has stolen from six West Village homes so far this year, police said.
No one was injured in the fire, authorities said.
Video footage shows the victim angrily chasing after the thief.
Nicholas Brooks was convicted of murdering his girlfriend in the Soho House in 2010, a conviction that was upheld Thursday.
An 84-year-old woman was crossing Sixth Avenue near West 13th Street when she was hit and fatally injured by a car, according to the NYPD.
A man stabbed himself in the neck on Monday morning outside the Waverly Inn and Restaurant, police said.
A purse snatcher has been stealing bags from the backs of diners' chairs throughout Manhattan, police say.
Police are still searching for the attacker, who ran from the area after stabbing a man, police said.
The man struck three people as they walked along Christopher Street on Saturday, police said.
The robber then punched the man in the face after the man chased after him in Greenwich Village, police said.
Two men forcibly removed a woman's bag as she was walking in Greenwich Village, according to police.
The men have robbed at least three businesses in Manhattan this month, using guns to steal from the stores, according to police.
The incident caused minor delays on the E line.
Police are hunting two men and a woman.
Elijah Davis was arrested and charged with robbing the Pinkberry on Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in November, police said.