Mayor Eric Adams (center) and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch (left) provide an update on an NYPD officer who was shot in the left shoulder during a press conference where the officer was rushed after the shooting. He was in stable condition. The suspect was in the same hospital after getting shot by cops but was listed as “not likely” to die. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) ESU Detective Shot Executing Search Warrant Against LES Thug; Suspect Wounded & Arrested A detective who was attempting to execute a search warrant in a pre-dawn raid at a Lower East Side public housing project... News 20 Feb 2025 | 11:03
Mayor Eric Adams calls reporters “liars,” as he leaves a press conference at Bellevue Hospital Feb. 18 where an NYPD office had been taken after getting shot. He refused to answer questions about his embattled administration which saw four deputy mayor’s resign. Calls are growing for him to resign. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Adams Under Fire as Calls to Oust Him Grow After 4 Deputy Mayors Resign; Mayor Calls Reporters “Liars” Mayor Eric Adams, under increasing heat after claims from top prosoecutors that he is cooperating with the Trump administration... News 19 Feb 2025 | 03:48
Now former Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon. ( Photo: DOJ Southern District of New York) 4 Deputy Mayors Step Down Only Days After US Attorney Made Explosive Claims About Adams Case and Resigned In a stunning twist, the top prosecutor in the Southern District of New York resigned three days after the Trump Justice... News 17 Feb 2025 | 09:12
The Ferrari family at a Father’s Day celebration at Peter Luger Steak House in 2021, with Robert Ferrari (center) surrounded by his four sons (from left) Kevin, Matthew, Brian, and Peter. ( Photo: Nanci Ferrari) Crime-Busting DA Bureau Chief Robert Ferrari Dies at 57; Remembered by Colleagues, Family Longtime DA bureau chief Robert Ferrari, who tried or supervised hundreds of cases involving murders, rapes, robberies, assaults,... News 17 Feb 2025 | 05:04
Despite a limit of one dozen eggs per customer, Trader Joe’s shelves were stripped bare on Feb. 16. The store promised more eggs were on the way and a sign said it was “no yolk.” ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Egg Shortages Spur Surging Prices; Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Costco Limit Purchases It was not a Super Sunday if you were trying to buy eggs at Trader’s Joes in the East Village on Feb. 9 thanks to the ongoing... News 15 Feb 2025 | 06:09
Mayor Adams at a press conference on Jan. 7. In an address on Feb. 12 he said he never broke the law and never instructed staffers to do so. He took no questions after the Feb. 12 address. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Justice Dept. Orders Fed Prosecutors to Drop Corruption Case Against Mayor Adams The Trump Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to drop the five-count... News 13 Feb 2025 | 11:12
Robert Bartholomey, an Air Force veteran who died in an East Village apartment fire on Feb. 2, holds his beloved dog, Bella, who succumbed to her own injuries five days later. ( Photo: GoFundMe) Heartbreak: Dog Saved from Fire Succumbs to Her Injuries Despite efforts to save her, Bella, the tragic pooch who was rescued from a fire that killed her owner in an East Village... News 10 Feb 2025 | 03:39
Aerial photo of the FDR Drive crash near East 75th Street, where 19-year-old Johency Nunez was killed when the Tesla she was driving, reportedly over 100 mph, crashed into a guardrail. Police said Nunez was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 26-year-old male passenger survived the crash. ( Photo: Citizen) Highway of Death: Two Killed in Two Incidents on FDR Drive Only Three Days Apart For the second time in three days, there was a fatality in the early- morning hours on the FDR Drive. The most recent incident... News 07 Feb 2025 | 06:46
NYU student Emma (center) came to an anti-Trump rally at City Hall Park on Feb. 5 to support transgender rights and immigrant rights. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly ) Several Hundred Protestors at Peaceful but Boisterous Anti-Trump Rally at City Hall Park On Feb. 5, the day after President Donald Trump called for the United States to take long-term ownership of Gaza and possibly... Voices 07 Feb 2025 | 05:22
Firetrucks extend ladders as they battle a blaze in a high-rise building on East 45th Street on Feb. 7. ( Photo: Citizen) Apt. Fire Squelched on UES Fires in high-rise apartment buildings always conjure up fearful images, especially as firefighters make their way up ladders... News 07 Feb 2025 | 05:02
Bella is a Miniature Pinscher who was beloved as she roamed the East Village neighborhood with her owner, 75-year-old Robert Bartolomey, who died in an apartment fire on Feb. 2. Neighbors, hoping the pooch can recover, are raising money on a GoFundMe. page ( Photo: GoFundMe) Victim of East Village Fire ID’d; Neighborhood Rallying Around His Injured Dog, Bella The 75-year-old man and longtime neighborhood resident who died in a fire in an East Village apartment fire on Feb. 2 has... 07 Feb 2025 | 03:47
The miracle dog Bella was rushed straight to Emergency Veternary Hospital in Chelsea after he was rescure from the Feb. 2 in an East Village apartment building that killed her 75-year-old owner. A neighbor who brought her to the hosptial is footing the bill for her recovery. A GoFundMe has been started to help defray the costs. ( Photo: GoFundMe) Dog Miraculously Saved from Fatal Fire in E. Village Fights for Survival; Drive Underway to Help When firefighters pulled a dog named Bella from an East Village fire that killed her owner she was handed to a neighbor. News 05 Feb 2025 | 09:44
Aerial photo of the scene near E. 75th St. on the FDR Drive where a Tesla being driven by an unidentified woman slammed into a wall and ejected her and her 25 year old male passenger. She was pronounced dead at the scene while the passenger was transported to Weill Cornell Hospital. ( Photo: Citizen) Woman Driver Dies in Fiery FDR Crash When Tesla Hits Wall An unidentified woman and her 25-year-old male passenger were both ejected from the vehicle when the Tesla she was driving... News 05 Feb 2025 | 11:43
Firefighters respond to a fire in the East Village on Feb. 2 in which a 75-year-old resident died in his second- floor apartment. ( Photo: Citizen) East Village Fire Claims Life of Air Force Vet; 2 Others Injured, Dog Saved A deadly fire on the second floor of a six-story building claimed the life of a 75-year-old man on Feb. 2. Two other residents... News 03 Feb 2025 | 04:44
A shopper named Ginny at Trader Joe’s on Jan. 29 was picking up two cartons of eggs. She said on earlier visits the shelves were devoid of the organic eggs she buys. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Eggs Selling Out and Prices Surging to Over $12/Dozen Shoppers are encountering either empty stores shelves, or eggs that have soared to $12 a dozen, or stores that are adding... News 03 Feb 2025 | 01:20
