Owner of posh NYC wine shop demanded discounts on prize French booze in bizarre deal to sell store
The former owner of New York City’s now-defunct Chelsea Wine Shop demanded steep discounts on exorbitantly priced vintage French wines as part of a bizarre and ill-fated business sale deal, The Washington Post has learned. Police said Michael Gancarz was arrested last month on suspicion of theft and trespass after he showed up at his […]
3 women knifed in 2 stabbings across NYC — including inside Queens subway station: NYPD
Three women were stabbed in two bloody attacks in New York on Sunday night, including one inside a subway station in Queens, police said. Police said a 23-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the torso on the mezzanine level of Jamaica Van Wyck Station in the Richmond Hill neighborhood around 8:30 p.m. The victim […]
Whole Foods to beef up NYC footprint with new outpost in East Village
Whole Foods has signed a lease to open a new store in an East Village space that was vacant before the pandemic, according to Realty Check. The Amazon-owned market will open at 409 East 14th Street, a space that was previously closed after Associated Supermarkets closed in December 2019, and the company will roll out […]
NYC homicide remains 20% above pre-pandemic levels — even as national average drops below
A new large-scale national crime survey finds that New York City’s murder rate remains higher than it was before the pandemic in 2019, even as the national average has nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels and is even below them. According to the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ), the homicide rate is expected to increase by […]
NYC fashion exec dyed hair to try to fend off creepy old CEO with penchant for blondes: lawsuit
A fashion executive was so relentlessly harassed by her creepy, octogenarian boss who had a “type” for blondes that she dyed her hair brown to make herself less attractive, only to be assaulted and fired, court documents say. Stephanie Coppin, a 38-year-old mother, claims in a new lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court that she […]
Measles cases in US triple last year’s total — NYC saw 11 cases in 2024
Alarming new data reveals that the number of measles cases recorded in the US this year is already three times higher than the 2023 total. There were 188 reported measles cases in 26 states and Washington, DC, including one in upstate New York and 11 in New York City. The Centers for Disease Control and […]
Elderly NYC woman, 95, beaten by home health aide in chilling video
Video of the incident shows a 95-year-old Harlem woman being severely beaten by a visiting caregiver, pleading and using a back scratcher to defend herself, and her family is demanding an explanation. Dorothy Foy was in her northern Manhattan home on July 21 when a woman her family had hired to care for her began […]
NYC Mayor Eric Adams signs emergency order to stop parts of controversial solitary confinement ban in city jails
Mayor Eric Adams signed an emergency order Saturday blocking part of a controversial City Council bill banning solitary confinement in city jails, according to information obtained by the New York Post. The City Council’s ban was set to take effect Sunday. The new rules would ban punitive segregation in jails for more than a four-hour […]
Carfentanil, opioid stronger than fentanyl, and animal sedative medetomidine found in NYC drug supply
Overdose deaths involving a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than fentanyl have more than doubled in New York City, while a new, deadly sedative has been detected in the city’s drug supply for the first time. The two deadly drugs are wreaking havoc on public health, with city officials issuing warnings Thursday about carfentanil, a […]
Suspects loose after three wounded in two overnight NYC shootings
Police say three people were injured in two shootings in the Bronx last night. Police said a 39-year-old man was shot in the left hand and a 23-year-old woman was hit in the right leg at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Webster Avenue and East 180th Street in Tremont. Both victims were […]