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A teenager was taken into custody on Thursday in connection with a shooting at a Bronx subway station earlier this week that killed one person and injured five others, a law enforcement official said. The shooting took place during the afternoon rush hour on Monday at the Mount Eden Avenue subway station in the Bronx. It occurred after a fight broke out between two groups of teenagers on a northbound 4 train at 4:30 p.m. When the train arrived at the station and people began filing off, someone fired a gun, the police said. The shooting continued as people frantically exited the train and ran for cover.

Persons: Obed Beltran, Sanchez Organizations: Mount Locations: Mount Eden, Bronx

The accusations by the writer E. Jean Carroll that former President Donald J. Trump raped and defamed her have been the subject of two separate trials in U.S. District Court in Lower Manhattan and have unfolded as Mr. Trump campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination. Last May, a jury found that Mr. Trump sexually abused Ms. Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine who said he assaulted her nearly three decades ago in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Now, Mr. Trump, 77, is back in the same federal courthouse, defending himself again against accusations of defamation. On Thursday, Ms. Carroll, the first witness in the case, ended her testimony in a trial that is expected to wrap up next week. It is still unknown whether Mr. Trump will take the stand.

Persons: Jean Carroll, Donald J, Trump, Carroll, Elle, Goodman Organizations: Republican Locations: U.S, Lower Manhattan

☆ E. Jean Carroll Says Trump ‘Shattered’ Her Reputation as He Watches in Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Since E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman, he has made dozens of posts on social media accusing her of lying — although a jury last year awarded her $2 million in damages for the assault. On Wednesday, the former president watched and listened for the first time as Ms. Carroll, 80, described how those statements affected her. “He shattered my reputation,” Ms. Carroll said in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan as Mr. Trump sat at the defense table, attending the proceedings for a second straight day. In a trial this week, the former Elle magazine advice columnist is seeking $10 million in damages for two statements he made as president in 2019, accusing her of lying about claims he assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. Mr. Trump called Ms. Carroll’s rape claim “totally false,” said that he had never met Ms. Carroll, and that she had invented the story to sell a book.

Persons: Jean Carroll, Donald Trump, Bergdorf Goodman, Carroll, ” Ms, Trump, Goodman, ” Organizations: Elle Locations: Lower Manhattan

At a town hall in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on Monday night, the mayor said the cuts were real but that he did not want to make them. The police commissioner, Edward Caban, has yet to make a public statement about the implications of a proposal that would bring the number of officers below 30,000 for the first time in decades. There were nearly 35,000 officers in the department in 2022. is stretched as thin as it could go right now,” said Paul DiGiacomo, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association. Every agency would be affected, including the Department of Education, which would see its budget cut by $1 billion over two years; the Sanitation Department; the city’s libraries; and popular programs like summer school and universal prekindergarten.

Persons: ”, “, Yell, Edward Caban, Paul DiGiacomo, ’, Mr, Adams Organizations: D.C, ”, Police Department, ’ Endowment Association, Department of Education, Sanitation Department Locations: Coney Island , Brooklyn

Don’t touch me.” “Give me your ID.” “Don’t touch me. You ask me for my ID, I’m going to give you my ID, but don’t touch me. Stop touching me.” “Keep your hands out of your pocket.” “Stop touching me.” “Keep your hands out of your pocket.” “Stop touching — my hands are in my pocket. Do what you got to do.” “Please, please, please, stop, stop, stop. Guys, please, guys, stop, stop, stop.”

Persons: “, ”, You’re, —, It’s, ain’t, ” “ I’m, Delaney, ” “, “ I’m, — Vasquez

In December 1982, four armed men burst into a bodega in Brooklyn serving as a front for marijuana dealing and ordered two men working inside to hand over drugs. The men then shot the clerks, killing one of them, Jairam Gangaram, a 32-year-old father of four girls. Five years later, a jury convicted Detroy Livingston of second degree murder following the testimony of a troubled young woman with an addiction to crack cocaine who claimed to be at the scene. Mr. Livingston, who had rejected a plea deal that would have set him free within 12 years, was sentenced to 25 years to life. On Friday, prosecutors from the office of the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, agreed that Mr. Livingston’s conviction should be vacated and the charges against him dismissed.

Persons: Jairam, Edward McClean, Detroy Livingston, Livingston, Eric Gonzalez, Livingston’s, Gangaram’s, Karen Dannett Locations: bodega, Brooklyn

The unprovoked attack has unnerved a city deeply reliant on the subway as its lifeline. On Wednesday, the woman was on the platform of the Fifth Avenue-53rd Street station waiting for an E train. Mr. Jones approached and shoved her against a departing train, sending her onto the subway tracks after her head hit a car, Chief Kemper said. He saw Mr. Jones screaming and was quickly walking away when Mr. Jones came up from behind, he said. Mr. Jones punched him in the left side of his face and fractured his jaw before fleeing, the man said.

Persons: Jones, Kemper Organizations: Street, Queens

“He’s known to us in the subway system,” the chief said, adding that video from security cameras in the station had helped investigators identify Mr. Jones as the suspect. Being shoved suddenly on a subway platform in particular is a perennial urban nightmare. Through Oct. 15, there had been 15 people pushed off subway platforms in New York City this year, compared with 22 in the same period last year, the police said. In May, a woman was critically injured after a man shoved her head against a moving subway train at the Lexington Avenue/63rd Street station. The woman, Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy, 35, was partially paralyzed in the attack.

Persons: “, Jones, Emine Yilmaz Organizations: Bowery, Committee, Lexington Locations: New York City

☆ 2 Charged With Murder in Day Care Death of 1-Year-Old
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

All three children showed symptoms of opioid exposure, the police said. Image Zoila Dominici with her 1-year-old son, Nicholas Feliz Dominici. Another 2-year-old-boy, who had left the small ground-floor day care center shortly after noon, was taken to a hospital after his mother noticed an unusual lethargy had replaced a toddler’s normal energy. “This crisis is real, and it is a real wake‑up call for individuals who have opioids or fentanyl in their homes,” Mayor Adams said. “The mere contact is deadly for an adult and it’s extremely deadly for a child.”

Persons: Nicholas Feliz, Nicholas, Joseph E, Kenny, —, Eric Adams, Ashwin Vasan, Mayor Adams, ” Organizations: Montefiore Medical, Police Locations: .

☆ Out the Window, Down a Knotted Sheet and Gone for a Month
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yenchun Chen, a Queens man accused of trying to sell fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine to an undercover officer, was being held at Rikers Island last month when he complained about chest pains, according to authorities. He spent several days at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Midtown Manhattan, where he was guarded by two Department of Correction officers and received occasional visitors. On the afternoon of Aug. 9, according to the police, Mr. Chen — all 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds of him — slipped quietly away. Mr. Chen, 44, told guards that he needed to shower and they permitted him to bathe alone, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter. Five minutes later they checked on him, but the shower was empty, the window was open and a rope made of knotted sheets was dangling from it, the law enforcement official said.

Persons: Yenchun Chen, Sinai Beth, Chen —, —, Chen, ”, Joseph Kenny Organizations: of Correction Locations: Queens, Sinai, Sinai Beth Israel, Midtown Manhattan

Protesters were thousands-thick in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village when the police moved in with horses and nightsticks. The tactics were described by a labor leader as “an orgy of brutality” and brought a public outcry demanding that police officials be fired. This was not a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, or even the riot that erupted in the same park in 1988 as officers charged at protesters. This head-knocking happened during a demonstration by unemployed workers amid the financial panic of 1873. New York has long been one of the biggest stages for protest in the United States, with a vocal, sometimes volatile populace and a rich tradition of dissent.

Persons: ” Locations: Tompkins Square, Manhattan’s East, New York, United States

☆ N.Y.P.D.’s New Intelligence Chief Takes Reins of Secretive Unit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rebecca Weiner learned about catastrophic threats at an early age: She grew up in Santa Fe, N.M., near the cradle of the nuclear bomb. In college, Ms. Weiner studied the ethical questions that Manhattan Project scientists, and their wives, confronted as they devised the bombs that annihilated two Japanese cities, but that they hoped would “end war as we know it,” she said. Now, Ms. Weiner, 46, has been named the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, commanding about 1,500 people spread throughout the city. A lawyer and 17-year department veteran, Ms. Weiner is taking over a bureau that includes a counterterrorism unit created after the Sept. 11 attacks. Since its inception, the unit has helped foil a plan to kidnap an American-Iranian journalist and what officials say were dozens of terrorist plots.

Persons: Rebecca Weiner, Weiner, ” Organizations: Harvard, Manhattan Project, New York Police Locations: Santa Fe, Poland, New Mexico, American, Iranian

About 12:30 p.m. Friday, the New York Police Department’s entertainment unit saw that Kai Cenat, a social-media streamer who has more than six million followers, had said that he would be in Manhattan’s Union Square that day, ready to give away free PlayStation 5 consoles and other prizes to fans who showed up. The local precinct sent a few officers and supervisors. By 1:30 p.m., there were about 300 fans in Union Square. “Not a big crowd,” Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of the department, said at a news conference on Friday. “Something we’d expect for a social media event like this.”

Persons: Kai Cenat, ” Jeffrey Maddrey, ” Organizations: New York Police Locations: Union

Karen Pendergrass kept seeing the lanky boy walk by the lunchroom where she taught dance twice a week to eighth grade students in North Philadelphia. He would peer inside, then run away as soon as Ms. Pendergrass made eye contact. “You come peeking in my door one more time and you’re coming in my class,” Ms. Pendergrass told him. At 28, he was preparing to audition for “The Lion King,” one of his favorite Broadway musicals. They were blasting Beyoncé and dancing around the car when a group of about three young men told them to stop and hurled gay slurs at them.

Persons: Karen Pendergrass, Pendergrass, Ms, O’Shae Sibley, Sibley Organizations: ” Locations: North Philadelphia, Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn

☆ Prosecutors Identify Human Remains Found in 2011 Near Gilgo Beach
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A skull that was found in 2011 near Gilgo Beach on Long Island has been identified as that of a 34-year-old woman who went missing in 1996, the authorities said on Friday. The death of the woman, Karen Vergata, has not been linked to Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect who last month pleaded not guilty to killing three women whose bodies were found along the beach. The skull of Ms. Vergata, who investigators said had worked as an escort, was discovered on Tobay Beach around the same time that investigators discovered the remains of 11 other people along the stretch of the South Shore that includes nearby Gilgo Beach. Other remains belonging to Ms. Vergata had been found in Davis Park on Fire Island in April 1996. For years, she was known as “Fire Island Jane Doe” as the police worked to identify her.

Persons: Karen Vergata, Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, Vergata, Jane Doe ” Organizations: Authorities Locations: Gilgo Beach, Long, Tobay, Shore, Gilgo, Davis

O’Shae Sibley was at a Brooklyn gas station with friends late Saturday night, filling up a car and blasting music by Beyoncé when a group of men approached and told them to stop dancing, according to friends. The men began using slurs and Mr. Sibley, 28, a gay man who was a professional dancer and choreographer, confronted them, according to his friends and a video of the altercation. The argument escalated and one man stabbed Mr. Sibley, according to the police. Otis Pena, one of Mr. Sibley’s best friends, pressed on his wound to stop the bleeding before he was taken to Maimonides Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. “They murdered him because he’s gay, because he stood up for his friends,” Mr. Pena said in a Facebook video that he posted hours after the killing on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood.

Persons: O’Shae Sibley, Sibley, Mr, Otis Pena, Sibley’s, “, ” Mr, Pena, ” Organizations: Maimonides Medical Locations: Brooklyn, Coney, Midwood

☆ Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Death of ‘The Wire’ Actor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Carlos Macci spent decades struggling with addiction, selling heroin and fentanyl not to make money but to ease his own cravings, according to court records. He was part of a four-man crew selling drugs out of an apartment in Williamsburg, and on Sept. 5, 2021, he was with a man who sold a bag of fentanyl-laced heroin to the actor Michael K. Williams. Mr. Williams, who became famous for playing a charismatic stickup man named Omar Little on the HBO series “The Wire,” took the drugs back to his Brooklyn apartment and was found dead the following day, still wearing the same clothes he had on the day before. On Tuesday, Mr. Macci, now 72, walked into Federal District Court in Manhattan, his shoulders stooped, and apologized for his role in Mr. Williams’ death. The judge sentenced him to 30 months in prison.

Persons: Carlos Macci, Michael K, Williams, Omar Little, ”, Macci Organizations: HBO, Court Locations: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Manhattan

On Tuesday, she ordered the city to inform the U.S. attorney’s office and others how it planned to fix some of the pressing issues within the jails. Shortly after the judge’s order was made public, Mayor Adams delivered a strenuous defense of his management of the jails. “I am the best person in this administration to finally turn around the Department of Correction,” the mayor said during a news conference. Mr. Adams asked what had changed since then to suggest that the city should be stripped of its authority. In a series of recent reports, the first of them issued in May, Mr. Martin criticized Mr. Adams and his correction commissioner, Louis A. Molina, for hiding episodes of violence and negligence.

Persons: Swain’s, Mayor Adams, Adams, Williams, Steve J, Martin, Mr, Louis A, Molina Organizations: of Correction, Mr Locations: U.S, Rikers

Edward Caban, who grew up in the Bronx as the son of a Puerto Rican transit police detective, on Monday became the first Latino officer to lead the New York Police Department in its 177-year history. Mayor Eric Adams announced the appointment of Mr. Caban, who had been serving as acting police commissioner, in a morning news conference in front of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx, where Mr. Caban began his career as a police officer in 1991. The move came just over a month after Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the first woman to serve in the role, resigned after only 18 months, frustrated in her attempts to act with autonomy. Mr. Caban, who had previously served as first deputy commissioner, had remained close to the mayor through Commissioner Sewell’s tenure. He will oversee roughly 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees.

Persons: Edward Caban, Eric Adams, Caban, Keechant Sewell, Sewell’s Organizations: New York Police Department Locations: Bronx, Puerto Rican, South Bronx

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