A man riding an e-bike through Queens was killed after he was doored by a Mercedes Benz, then run over by a Jeep, cops said Saturday.
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E-bike rider killed after getting doored in Queens: NYPD
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Speeding Mercedes driver dies in Bronx crash after blowing through red lights, passenger critically hurt
Grieving friends streamed into Kajtazaj’s family’s home a mile from the crash scene in the hours after he died. The family is originally from Kosovo.
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Woman dies in Queens fire during possible suicide bid: NYPD
Detectives were reviewing camera footage and conducting interviews at a nearby liquor store the woman was known to frequent as they searched for clues to the tragedy.
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Brooklyn dad dies in motorcycle crash after losing control on curved Queens street
Relatives gathered at Tarry’s East Flatbush apartment on Saturday remembered him as a precocious young man with a sharp sense of humor who had learned Spanish, Russian, and Yiddish all while holding down a job and raising a daughter.
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Woman stabs friend, mistaking him for attacker in Queens fight
A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death in Queens by a friend who mistakenly thought he was attacking her, police said Friday.
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Bronx subway conductor feared for his life in random BB gun attack
“This can’t be happening,” Trevor Thomas recalled thinking as a teen leveled a pellet gun at him point-blank and opened fire as the shooter’s pal recorded the attack with a cell phone.
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Thieves steal $14G from burned-out NYCHA building where 6-year-old boy died
As the blaze swept through the 19th and 20th floors of 303 E. 135th St. in the Mitchel Houses and choked little Aiden Hayward to death with black smoke, a pair of bandits made off with Alberto Revilla’s wedding ring, Nintendo Switch, iPad and other electronics, an estimated $14,800 of personal items, police said.
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Heroic dad critically burned trying to save young son from Bronx public housing blaze
“I looked through my peephole and just saw black,” Anthony Vega, who was in his apartment when the fire erupted, said Saturday. “I was praying for no one to be in that situation. To hear him, with his dad on the floor, that was real sad.”
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Pilot of Brooklyn helicopter flight says takeoff and landing at vacant lot in densely-populated Crown Heights obeyed the law
Nahoom refused to say where he was going, who his passengers were, or why they couldn’t meet him in a place with a lower population density. “That’s really none of your business,” he said.
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Dirty deed: Man shoots NYC car wash worker in fight over vacuum
The gunman hollered that the victim embarrassed him in front of his girlfriend before opening fire, Modou said. The worker was shot in the left leg.
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Stray bullet strikes mom while pushing child down NYC street in stroller
A Bronx woman was hit in the leg by a stray bullet as she pushed her daughter in a stroller, police said Friday.
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Two men get into knife fight after argument in Moynihan Train Hall
In the gory aftermath, blood-stained loose change and bloody footprints were left on the sidewalk outside NY Pizza Suprema.
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11-year-old girl attacked in bizarre battle in NYC park between dog lovers and students
A boy who stepped in to defend the girl was also assaulted, police said. Video showed at least a dozen young people running and filming the chaos, which spilled into the dog run.
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Attacker punches, then fatally shoots man outside NYC housing project
“I don’t think the kids should have to see this walking to school in the morning,” said neighbor Alissa Aviles. “It’s traumatic for the kids to see. My nephew and sister walked past, he was shaken up. They heard others talking, saying someone was shot 13 times.”
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Brooklyn bodega worker killed by fugitive hit-and-run driver while walking bicycle across Brooklyn street
A Brooklyn woman, accompanying her husband on his evening walk home from work, watched in horror as a hit-and-run driver ran him down.
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Tree-scaling Queens man recounts 3-day standoff with cops before climbing down from 30-foot spruce
“I just got to a point where I said, ‘It’s better I go into the tree before someone tries to kill me, sends me to Rikers (Island), to get the same beatings from these officers again,” Thomas said inside the Springfield Gardens residence he shares with his mother and nephew.
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NYPD seeks possible abuse victims at Bronx day care following molestation arrest
“I heard (Persido) had went to the Dominican Republic for a while,” she said. “That’s literally under us. It was always very noisy down there, kids were always crying and screaming. I went there all the time to bring them furniture, do little things, say hi, or see if they needed help.”
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Man found dying on Brooklyn rooftop was strangled trying to collect $40 debt, mourning family says
Devastated relatives of Solomon “Sol” Samuel, 48, gathered Sunday at a modest memorial of candles outside Pitkin Appliances on Pitkin Ave. in Brownsville, the family’s 40-year-old neighborhood appliance store. Samuel worked there since he was 17 and lived above the store.
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NYC woman found dead in vacant lot was suffocated with plastic bag and beaten
A Bronx woman whose decomposed remains were found this summer in a vacant lot was beaten and suffocated with a plastic bag tied over her head, police said Saturday.
