A man is on the run after attacking a woman in her Upper West Side home on Sunday night, a police spokesperson told West Side Rag. The attacker broke into a woman's apartment around 10:15 p.m. near Amsterdam Avenue and West 64th Street, before choking her and punching her in the face multiple times, police said. He then grabbed the woman's keys and fled the apartment in an unknown direction, NYPD added.
A police officer at a shooting scene. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Manhattan detectives are looking for the suspect who shot a man in the back outside an apartment building on Wednesday night. Police said the shooting happened just after 9 p.m. on Oct. 8 in front of 360 West 127th St., off St. Nicholas Terrace, in Manhattanville. Officers from the 26th Precinct responded to the scene and found the victim, a 26-year-old man, with a single gunshot wound to his back.
Police say the DSNY workers were clearing trash from an area on the eastern side of the park along Brookville Boulevard near 149th Avenue when one of them grabbed a garbage bag and was about to toss it into the hopper of their truck when he caught a whiff of a foul odor emanating from inside the bag at around 7 a.m., and they called it in to the NYPD.
Police say 21-year-old James Korakis, of 9th Avenue in Whitestone, was riding a BMW motorcycle northbound on the Cross Island Parkway service road near 157th Street just after 7 p.m. when he collided with a Mine Cooper driven by a 28-year-old man who was also traveling northbound on the service road. The impact of the crash sent the motorcycle into two parked and unoccupied vehicles, a Toyota Rav4 and a Chevy Impala, police said.