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On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless black man, died after a 24-year-old white former Marine named Daniel Penny put him in a chokehold.Neely boarded a New York City Subway train at the Second Avenue station just before it departed and reportedly began screaming that he was hungry, needed a job, was threatening people, said he was not afraid of going to prison, and was ready to die.
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest disasters by death toll in the history of New York City. [5][6][7] As of August 19, 2023 the city's confirmed COVID-19 deaths exceeded 45,000 and probable deaths exceeded 5,500. [4] As of July 11, 2022, New York City has administered 17,956,430 COVID-19 vaccine doses. [8]
22. José Grande, 79, Spanish racing cyclist. [ 7 ] Brian Huggett, 87, Welsh golfer. [ 8 ] Fredric Jameson, 90, American philosopher (Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious). [ 9 ] Peter Jay, 87, British journalist and diplomat, ambassador to the United States (1977–1979).
Hurricane Sandy. Ninth Avenue derailment. Lexington Avenue explosion. 2006 plane crash. Great Fire of New York (1835) 2007 steam explosion. Harlem riot of 1964. US Airways Flight 1549. This is a list of disasters that have occurred in New York City organized by death toll.
United States (New York City) Lila Fenwick: 87 Lawyer United States (New York City) Carlos González-Artigas: 72 Businessman Ecuador (Guayaquil) Rhoda Hatch: 73 Anti-war activist and public school educator United States Vincent Lionti: 60 Violist and conductor United States (New York City) Leïla Menchari: 92 Decorator and designer France (Paris)
March 14, 2007 – 2007 New York City shooting. July 9, 2007 – Rookie police officer Russel Timoshenko is shot five times while pulling over a stolen BMW in Crown Heights; he died five days later. A massive manhunt led to the arrest of three men a week later in Pennsylvania, who were eventually convicted of the crime.
On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. At approximately 8:24 a.m. EDT, a 62-year-old Black nationalist [4][5] Frank Robert James [2] put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times.
Akai Kareem Gurley (c. 1986 – November 20, 2014) was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and moved to New York as a child. [10]He was not a resident of the Pink Houses but lived in nearby Brownsville with his domestic partner, her daughter, and their two-year-old daughter.