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The 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis occurred when four robbers in Brooklyn, New York City, took hostages and engaged in a standoff with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) over the course of 47 hours from January 19 to January 21, 1973. One police officer was killed, and two officers and a perpetrator were injured, all within the first ...
A man was fatally beaten in an apparent robbery on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the New York Police Department confirmed with PEOPLE. Michael Shelonchik, 53, was found dead in the back of ...
NYPD Crime Stoppers 'Haggler after Midnight' Related: N.Y.C. Woman, 71, Fights Off 4 Attackers Who Tried to Rob Her While Traveling to New Year’s Day Church Service
In 2019 the NYPD responded to 482,337 reports of crime and made 214,617 arrests. [10] There were 95,606 major felonies reported in 2019, compared to over half a million per year when crime in New York City peaked during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.
The NYPD's previous headquarters, at 240 Centre Street between Broome and Grand Streets. One Police Plaza is rectangular in plan and is an inverted pyramid in elevation. It is a 13-level, horizontally-oriented brutalist building designed by Gruzen and Partners. [2] The building was dedicated on October 16, 1973. [1]
They would routinely violate the civil rights of the citizens of New York City, and moonlighted for the crime family. They would use NYPD files to track down the enemies of the crime family and were ultimately convicted of the murders of Eddie Lino, Michael Greenwald (an informant for the FBI) and innocent man Nick Guido, who had the same name ...
Investigators searched a top floor of NYPD headquarters last week, seeking evidence in the tawdry sex-for-overtime scandal exposed by The Post, sources said. The sleuths performed a crime scene ...
On September 15, 1983, aspiring artist and model Michael Stewart left the Pyramid Club in Manhattan's Lower East Side. [3] He was arrested at 2:50 a.m. for spraying graffiti at the First Avenue station on the L train's Brooklyn-bound platform. Transit Police Officer John Kostick found Stewart scrawling "RQS" on the wall and had him arrested.