the bronx
Sheriffs break up underground fight club in the Bronx
City sheriffs broke up an illegal Bronx fight club with enough guns, booze and drugs to make Brad Pitt and Edward Norton’s on screen antics look tame. The unlicensed, “Rumble in the Bronx” club was operating in an industrial building on Coster Street in Hunts Point, sheriffs say. Investigators raided the warehouse at 11:15 p.m. Saturday …
NYPD cop placed in headlock while trying to break up Bronx crowd
A pair of NYPD cops simply wanted to disperse a crowd gathered on a hot July night at a Bronx street corner. But as this disturbing video shows, in an instant the two officers found themselves surrounded by angry, taunting bystanders. And as the crowd cheered, a man they were trying to arrest put one …
NYC man busted for breaking Hawaii’s quarantine rules
On second thought, it may have been a bad idea to post those surfing selfies. A Bronx man on vacation in Hawaii was arrested by agents with the state attorney general’s office Friday morning — and charged with violating the state’s strict rules that tourists observe a 14-day quarantine after arriving. The givaway? Officials say …
Bronx is a ticking coronavirus timebomb: health workers
The Bronx is a “ticking time bomb” when it comes to the coronavirus, and could soon become the epicenter for New York’s crisis with the deadly bug, local health workers told The Post. The borough had 4,243 recorded coronavirus cases as of Friday night, according to city officials — fewer than Brooklyn’s 6,095 cases, or …
Williamson Hints at Health Plan During Primary Signup
Author Marianne Williamson says she’s close to releasing a detailed health care plan she calls a hybrid of what’s being proposed by other Democratic presidential candidates. Williamson spoke to reporters in New Hampshire on Monday after signing up for the state’s first-in-the-nation primary. She says Medicare for All plans proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and …
NYPD cop Brian Mulkeen killed in Bronx struggle with armed suspect
A hero NYPD officer was fatally shot early Sunday during a desperate, hand-to-hand struggle with an armed suspect just after midnight on the grounds of the Edenwald Houses in The Bronx. Officer Brian Mulkeen, 33, a six-year veteran of the department, did not survive three gunshot injuries, Chief of Department Terence Monahan told reporters at …
Driver Fatally Runs Over Cyclist Who Allegedly Tried Breaking Into His Car: Police
A 47-year-old cyclist suspected of breaking into a vehicle in Brooklyn has died after the car’s owner ran him over, according to police. A spokesperson for the NYPD says the suspect, who has not been identified, was breaking into a black Jeep Cherokee on Marcus Garvey Boulevard Monday morning when the SUV’s owner confronted him. …
Dad charged in death of twin babies he left in hot car
The father whose 1-year-old twins died after he allegedly forgot them inside a hot car in the Bronx for eight hours on Friday has been charged in their deaths, police said. Juan Rodriguez, 39, was charged with two counts each of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter for leaving his infant twins, Mariza and Phoenix, in …
