An unidentified gunman detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire at Brooklyn's 36th Street station during rush hour.
“There was a lot of loud pops, and there was smoke in the other car,” she said. New York City has faced a spate of shootings and high-profile bloodshed in recent months, including on the city’s subways. High school student John Butsikaris was riding the other train when he saw a conductor urging everyone to get in. In another video, smoke and people pour out of a subway car, some limping. Police were scouring the city for the shooter and found a rental van possibly connected to the violence. “This individual is still on the loose. "This is an active shooter situation right now in the city of New York.” It left some New Yorkers jittery about riding the nation's busiest subway system and prompted officials to increase policing at transportation hubs from Philadelphia to Connecticut. By early evening, police found a matching, unoccupied U-Haul van in Brooklyn, one of the officials said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has completed an urgent trace to identify the gun's manufacturer, seller and initial owner. They said the suspect is believed to have had at least two extended magazines. At least one collapsed on the platform.
Police said 16 people were hurt in the attack at a Brooklyn subway station on Tuesday during morning rush hour. Authorities are still looking for the ...
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Times photographers are at the location where several people were shot during the morning rush at a train station in Brooklyn.
The Fire Department reported that 16 people were injured, including several by gunfire. Preliminary reports suggested that five people were shot at the station, where the D, N and R lines pass through the Sunset Park neighborhood, around 8:30 a.m., the Police Department said. Emergency workers in the Sunset Park area after the shooting at the subway station. A uniformed officer approached, said his radio was not working and asked passengers to call 911. He heard someone calling for a doctor and followed that person to the front of the train. Times photographers are documenting the scene in the aftermath of the shooting.
A shooting at a New York City subway station on Tuesday brought fresh attention to crime in the most populous American city, with 8.8 million people as of ...
The city recorded 13,831 robberies in 2021, 13,106 in 2020, 13,371 in 2019 after going as low as 12,913 in 2018. The city recorded 1,491 rapes in 2021, an increase over 1,427 in 2020 but a decline from 1,755 in 2019 and 1,794 in 2018. The city recorded 488 murders in 2021, 468 in 2020, 319 in 2019 and 295 in 2018 after falling to a low of 292 in 2017 following a steady decline since the early 1990s.
Democrat Brian Benjamin pleads not guilty in Manhattan to several charges, as arrest creates political crisis for governor Kathy Hochul.
Hochul in September plucked Benjamin, then a state lawmaker, to serve as second-in-command when she became governor, taking over from Cuomo. Hochul was Cuomo’s lieutenant governor. While the legal process plays out, it is clear to both of us that he cannot continue to serve as lieutenant governor. He was released and bail was set at $250,000.
Thirteen people injured and 'several undetonated devices' were found as police search for suspect who fled scene, authorities say.
Officers were searching for the suspect, the police spokesperson said. I just hope they find the person.” The not knowing what’s going on – it’s crazy, it’s concerning,” he said. “That this could happen literally just a few feet from where you live it’s crazy. Perez was standing outside his building with neighbors. Police later said none were “active explosive devices”.
It happened in Sunset Park, near 4th Avenue and 36th Street. The suspect is said to be a man in a gas mask.
Federal investigators with ATF and HSI are also on the scene. Local schools were placed under a shelter in place order, a Department of Education spokesperson said. - NYC Subway Shooting: Cell Video Shows ... The NYPD warned New Yorkers to avoid the area and to expect emergency vehicles and delays. A motive is under investigation, though right now the all-out manhunt for the gunman is investigators' top priority. A number of sources say a dispute may have unfolded on the train just before the gunfire broke out. One law enforcement source said the victims ranged in age from teenagers to middle-aged people. - NYC Subway Shooting: Cell Video Shows ... One straphanger who limped off the train fell and had to be helped away by fellow riders. Two of the five shooting victims were said to have been seriously wounded. - NYC Subway Shooting: Cell Video Shows ... They stress the investigation is preliminary.
NEW YORK — When Nick Laforte heard about Tuesday morning's shooting at the 36th Street subway station, he first thought of his wife and daughter.
“The only way to stop that is a uniformed police presence.” “There is certainly a lot of talk about crime being on the rise, and our safety, and I can certainly understand that,” she said. Mitaynes (D) urged policymakers to “have a larger conversation about how we’re going to tackle it instead of just preying on people’s fears.” And that “really means investing in our community,” not just increasing police funding, she said. “I feel like it’s a very scary place to live now.” In the same survey, three-quarters of the city’s voters said that crime is a very serious problem, the highest proportion since the survey started asking the question in 1999. Hochul and Adams recently pushed to give judges more discretion in setting bail for a larger number of offenses, rolling back landmark legislation on bail reform passed in 2019. In an interview with CNN, Adams said he planned to double the number of officers patrolling the city’s subways. “We need a national response to this issue.” A recent poll by Quinnipiac University found that less than half of the city’s voters felt safe using the subway during the daytime, compared to 76 percent six years ago. The current increase in crime in no way compares to the wave of violence that engulfed New York in the 1970s. NEW YORK — When Nick Laforte heard about Tuesday morning’s shooting at the 36th Street subway station, he first thought of his wife and daughter. Robberies are up nearly 50 percent while shooting incidents have risen 14 percent, according to data from the New York Police Department.
The attack on Tuesday brought to life a horror that the city had long avoided: a mass shooting on the subway.
Ensuring a safe subway system has been part of a strategy to lure people back to offices, and tourists back to the city. Video captured by riders and people on the platform showed the familiar space of a subway car transformed into a trap. Nayah Martin, 22, who uses the 36th Street station to get to her job at a surgery center nearby, was planning on taking an Uber. “It spooked me,” Ms. Martin said. “I’m not trying to stay on the subway.” Ridership had begun to tick up: For the third week of March — the most recent for which statistics are available — the subway averaged about 3.2 million riders per weekday, about 58 percent of the prepandemic average. “In a mass shooting, there is a lot of attention focused on people who are killed or who are injured, and rightfully so,” she said. Subway ridership has been hobbled by the shift to remote work. Mayor Eric Adams had vowed to crack down on subway violence, and the shooting came amid what was already an increased police presence. And in an instant, it turned the subway — New York City’s quotidian icon — into a bloody scene of horror. “There is a heightened sense of insecurity that results from these type of attacks, because it is easy for us to relate to them, because we can see ourselves in them.” In 2021, rates of violent crime in the subway per million weekday passengers spiked almost across the board compared with 2019, before the pandemic. Their subway, once the target of mundane gripes over tardiness and trash, had become the latest symbol of a city frayed by violence.
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The NYPD asked rush-hour commuters to stay away from a Brooklyn intersection where the D, N and R trains run. There is no service there and at some stations ...
That corner is the site of a busy station that runs the D, N and R trains. I'm grateful for the quick action of our first responders." So everyone is kind of at this point, settling down, and now the investigation really starts so witnesses, video, all of this is critically important at this point." "It's important to know, at a scene such as this, it can be chaotic. "This crime scene is only going to grow as time goes on. The FDNY initially said several undetonated devices were found at the scene.
At least 13 people have been injured in a shooting during morning rush hour at a New York subway station. Shots were fired at the 36th Street station in ...
You can also get in touch in the following ways: Are you in the area? There is a "huge" number of police and emergency responders attending, reports the BBC's New York bureau chief John Mervin who is at the scene. The woman said she saw the suspect dropping "some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top" - initially believing him to be a subway worker because of the orange vest that she said he was wearing. "My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming," eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.
NEW YORK: Multiple people were shot and at least 16 were injured on Tuesday (Apr 12) during morning rush hour in a New York City subway station where ...
"He took it upon himself to make sure that people were alerted, despite being injured." "None of us in the front of the train knew what was going on, but people were pounding and looking behind them, running, trying to get onto the train." Advertisement A sign saying 36th Street can be seen in the background. CNN and other media reported that at least five people were shot, citing sources in the New York Fire Department. Advertisement
At least 13 people have been injured in a shooting incident at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, where 'several undetonated devices' were also ...
Lax gun laws and a constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms have repeatedly stymied attempts to clamp down on the number of weapons in circulation, despite greater controls being favored by the majority of Americans. ABC News quoted police sources as saying at least five people were shot in the incident. According to NBC, citing NYPD officials and senior law enforcement officials, a man in a gas mask and orange construction vest may have tossed a smoke canister on the platform to distract the rush hour crowd.
Multiple people were shot and at least 13 were injured on Tuesday in a New York City subway station, the fire department said, in the latest spasm of ...
"He took it upon himself to make sure that people were alerted, despite being injured." "None of us in the front of the train knew what was going on, but people were pounding and looking behind them, running, trying to get onto the train." It was not immediately clear whether the number of injured people included those who were shot.
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Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the ball over the playground fence. Adams has so far proposed creating a joint city and state panel to study the future of work and its implications for the city. “The level of Holocaust denial right now is staggering. More about the asterisk in a moment. The story surfaced a decade ago, when Margot Wölk, then 95, was quoted as saying she had been a taster at Hitler’s bunker in occupied Poland. The title is what it is. The evening will be partly cloudy, with temps dropping to the low 50s. And the state has yet to move toward relaxing zoning regulations that hamper the conversion of office buildings to residential housing, including low-income units. Manhattan office buildings underwrote more than a quarter of the city’s property tax revenues before the pandemic, according to the state comptroller’s office. Even so, policymakers have barely begun to address what that could mean for schools, parks and the police, all of which depend on tax revenues. And Penguin Random House, the publishing house with roughly 2,500 employees in the New York City area, has no mandatory return-to-office plans at all. And, a playwright who decided not to change the name of her play.
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“White House senior staff are in touch with Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Sewell to offer any assistance as needed.” My main objective was to get out of the station.” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she has been briefed on the incident. Officers were inspecting all stations and trains as part of its investigation, the NYPD said on Twitter. First responders encountered wounded commuters along with several undetonated devices, according to a spokesman for New York City Fire Department (FDNY). “Reportedly we have no one with life-threatening injuries as a result of this case.”
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And that’s been the excuse that the insurance companies are using to deny them benefits.” And they weren’t going to talk to us about changing the policy.” Though lesbian couples and single women sometimes have to pay out-of-pocket costs first, most insurance policies also allow them to meet the definition of infertile through intrauterine insemination. Mr. Briskin began working for the city as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in 2017 and left earlier this year. “But these are now benefits, that in a very important way, we’re not being given.” The Office of Labor Relations, the city department that handles employee insurance, did not respond to calls about their policy. “So they don’t meet this hyper-technical definition of infertility. “It’s mind blowing that in 2022 we’re still having this conversation about a policy that so clearly excludes gay men because of horribly antiquated views of homosexuality,” he said. We just don’t have the money.” Under the city’s insurance benefits policy, a covered person is only eligible for such services when they are deemed infertile. A former lawyer for New York City and his husband have filed a complaint against the city saying they were denied insurance coverage because of a definition of infertility that excludes gay men. A same-sex married couple said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the City of New York discriminated against them in denying them in vitro fertilization coverage under the city’s insurance plan for employees.
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NEW YORK — Multiple people were shot and at least 13 were injured on Tuesday (Feb 12) in a New York City subway station, the fire department said, ...
Suspect remains at large after opening fire on commuters in Brooklyn, though no injuries are life-threatening.
Brian A. Benjamin, New York's No. 2 official to Gov. Kathy Hochul, will face a federal charge that he conspired to commit bribery while a state senator.
The decision was widely seen as a way for Ms. Hochul, a white moderate from Buffalo, to expand her appeal to nonwhite voters in New York City ahead of this year’s elections. (Mr. Benjamin later refunded the suspect contributions and reached an agreement to repay the campaign expenses in question.) State records and a Facebook photo posted by Mr. Migdol at the time show Mr. Benjamin presenting him with an oversized cardboard check for $50,000 for the charity, Friends of Public School Harlem, in September 2019. Mr. Benjamin, who rose from being the chairman of the Central Harlem community board, was considered a rising star. They accused him of making straw donations in the name of individuals, including his 2-year-old grandchild, who did not consent to them, and of reimbursing others for the cost of their contributions. Mr. Benjamin said recently that he had been cooperating with investigators, who had issued subpoenas in recent weeks to the State Senate in Albany and people who had advised his comptroller campaign. The duties of the lieutenant governor position vary by administration. He finished fourth last year in the Democratic primary for comptroller. But the Harlem real estate investor who illegally assisted his campaign, Gerald Migdol, while not listed by name in the indictment, is identified as “CC-1,” short for co-conspirator 1. Still, she took office last year promising to end an era of impropriety in Albany, and selecting Mr. Benjamin, 45, was among her first major decisions as governor. Mr. Benjamin will almost certainly face pressure to resign from office. The investor was arrested on federal charges in November.
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NEW YORK — A masked gunman set off a smoke bomb and opened fire in a New York City subway car on Tuesday (April 12), injuring 16 people and throwing the ...
"He just said that there was a lot of people bleeding," Mr Aderer told Fox News in a phone interview. White House staff were in touch with New York City mayor Eric Adams and the police commissioner to offer any assistance, the White House said. The New York Police Department was holding a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. WABC and NBC New York, citing law enforcement officials reported that the gunman had set off smoke canisters in the train. "The train at that time began to fill with smoke. Riders trapped inside poured out, some collapsing to the ground.
Brian Benjamin is accused of conspiring to direct state funds to a real estate investor in exchange for illegal campaign contributions to a 2021 race in New ...
“New Yorkers deserve a government that is accountable to them. The Times reported the indictment is the result of a federal investigation that has gone on for more than a year when Benjamin was a state senator from Harlem. Senate Republican Leader Robert Ortt said Benjamin should resign, and a growing number of Democrats also called on him to leave office. There are several candidates running against Benjamin in the June primary. I want to give the investigators a chance to finish their work.” “Unfortunately, it looks like business as usual in our state Capitol.” Benjamin agreed to surrender his passport and limit his travel. “This is a simple story of corruption. And already calls were growing for Benjamin to resign. Out of respect for that investigation, I’m not going to be commenting further. Benjamin is accused of conspiring to direct $50,000 of state funds to a Harlem real estate investor in order to get the developer to ship illegal campaign contributions to Benjamin’s unsuccessful 2021 comptroller campaign. Brian Benjamin is accused of conspiring to direct state funds to a real estate investor in exchange for illegal campaign contributions to a 2021 race in New York City.
Brian A. Benjamin is still set to appear on the ballot to run for reelection this year.
His arrest is the latest political scandal to hit New York’s leadership after Cuomo resigned in August amid a series of sexual misconduct allegations. “As soon as the campaign discovered that these contributions were improperly sourced, they donated them to the Campaign Finance Board, pursuant to guidance obtained from the CFB.” Lt. Gov. Benjamin Arrested in Campaign Finance Scheme (New York Times) He faces two primary challengers who are bidding to run on the gubernatorial ticket with Hochul this fall. NY Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin Arrested in Campaign Finance Fraud Case: Sources (NBC New York) Though he hasn’t commented yet on the charges against him beyond his not guilty plea, Benjamin’s office denied participation in Migdol’s scheme when reports emerged he was under investigation.
Police said 16 people were hurt in the attack at a Brooklyn subway station on Tuesday during morning rush hour. Authorities are still looking for the ...
We will focus on reports from police officials and other authorities, credible news outlets and reporters who are at the scene, and we will update as the situation develops. "People were pounding and looking behind them, running, trying to get onto the train," Fonda said. The shooter donned what appeared to be a gas mask before removing a canister from a bag, Sewell said.