NYC Police Athletic League brings holiday cheer in Harlem
Nearly 100 inner-city kids, police officers and city leaders gathered for the Police Athletic League's annual holiday party in Harlem on Saturday for an event filled with giveaways, games and fun. It became. The youth nonprofit's event featured face painting stations, an inflatable bounce house, a bicycle raffle, and speeches from New York City Mayor […]
Neglected NYC boy, 4, suffered in feces-streaked Harlem apartment where food was locked away, prosecutors reveal as dad is jailed
A malnourished 4-year-old Harlem boy who died weighing only 19 pounds was living in a hellish, shit-filled house where his insensitive parents locked up food, his father said Thursday as he faced a judge. The prosecutor's office revealed that. Laron Modlin, 25, was ordered held without bail after the court learned disturbing new details about […]
2 men stab each other in broad-daylight knife fight in Harlem street, wild video shows
Wild video obtained by the Post showed two men slashed and bloodied after a broad daylight knife fight on a Harlem street Friday. At about 4:30 p.m., a 63-year-old man and his 35-year-old rival circled each other with knives drawn as passersby barely batted an eye in the middle of the road at Frederick Douglass […]
Man shot outside $3M NYC home of ballet dancer, banker in South Harlem
Shots rang out next door to the Harlem mansion (worth approximately $3 million) shared by a ballet dancer and her banker husband. Sunday's shooting happened at 1:40 p.m. on West 118th Street in South Harlem, an area that real estate agents have dubbed “SoHa” and which is shaping up to be the next big boom […]
NYC man accused of gunning down twin sister in NJ was out on bail for January Harlem shooting: report
A violent repeat offender who allegedly murdered his twin sister in New Jersey last week was released on bail earlier this year after shooting a passerby in the back during a shootout in Manhattan. Jonathan D. Hagley, 26, is being held in the psychiatric ward at the Bergen County Jail after police say he shot […]
Body of young man found floating facedown in NYC’s Harlem River: cops
Police say a young man’s body was found floating in the Harlem River Sunday morning. Police said the body of the unidentified man, believed to be in his 20s, was discovered shortly after 9:30 a.m. when authorities responded to a 911 call reporting that an unconscious man had been found face-down in the river near […]
Harlem Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs fired employee battling amputation health crisis: suit
A new lawsuit accuses Harlem state Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs (D-Manhattan) of wrongfully firing a former staffer who battled a health crisis that ultimately led to the amputation of his leg. In a lawsuit filed this week in Manhattan Supreme Court, Keith Lilly alleges that Gibbs discriminated against him by firing him while he was hospitalized […]
‘Suits’ star Wendell Pierce claims he was denied housing in Harlem over race: ‘Vile and despicable’
Hollywood actor Wendell Pierce claims his application to rent an apartment in Harlem was rejected because of his race. The star, who played Robert, the father of Meghan Markle’s Rachel Zane in the hit legal drama series “Suits,” said he was denied housing despite having a steady income from several high-profile acting jobs. “For those […]
Fox Business host Charles Payne reveals his niece, 39, was struck by stray bullet in Harlem shooting
The niece of Fox Business anchor Charles Payne was hit by a stray bullet during a shooting earlier this month on the Harlem street where she grew up, the journalist revealed on air Wednesday. Payne, 61, said her niece Keisha Williams, 39, attended a sidewalk memorial for the son of a friend who was shot […]
Harlem woman charged with murder over stabbing death of boyfriend, who she claimed knifed himself
A Harlem woman has been charged with murder in the weekend stabbing of her boyfriend, who identified her as his assailant before he died, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Michelle Hernandez, 44, stumbled out of her West 147th Street apartment on Sunday afternoon, bleeding from wounds to her chest and arm, banged on her neighbor’s door and […]