Bystander shot in the back in Coney Island
Gunfire erupted in Coney Island early Sunday, leaving a bystander shot in the back, police said. A man and a woman were arguing on a residential block of West 16th Street when one of them pulled out a pistol at about 4:30 a.m., police sources said. The person who pulled the gun fired one round,…
Scores injured after deck collapses at Brooklyn mansion
A deck collapsed during a party in Bushwick early Sunday, leaving 16 people injured – two of them seriously, a FDNY spokesman said. The deck gave way at 670 Bushwick Ave. around 12:30 a.m. Initial reports were that some party-goers were trapped. The building is called the Cook Mansion and was constructed in the late…
2 killed in separate incidents in Brooklyn
Two men were killed in a pair of unrelated, ultra-violent incidents in Brooklyn early Sunday. A man in his mid-20s was found riddled with bullets and knife wounds in an elevator about 12:40 a.m. at 1615 Fulton St. in Bedford Stuyvesant, police said. “Somebody pressed the elevator button in the lobby and when it opened…
Ali’s former Bronx gym remembers a legend
At Gleason’s Gym, where Ali trained for his 1964 fight against Sonny Liston while the gym was still in The Bronx, his photographs were everywhere in the iconic Brooklyn facility Saturday. Owner Bruce Silverglade, 69, remembered Ali as larger than life — but always humble while there. “Muhammad Ali was a very unusual person insofar…
After fatal accident, hospital still putting patients at risk: DOH
Three years after a patient died from a botched blood transfusion, Coney Island Hospital still can’t get it right. The hospital’s blood-testing procedures, put in place after the 2013 death, failed to conform to a state-approved plan, the state Department of Health found during a May 11 inspection. The hospital “was not following the policies…
Pro-smoking Keith Wright has accepted cash from Big Tobacco
Assemblyman Keith Wright not only smokes in his office, but the county committee he heads has taken in $14,500 from Big Tobacco since he took over. He also has refused to back legislation that his fellow Dems are supporting to curtail smoking. He voted against a 2010 bill to prohibit smoking in private vehicles when…
Families sue charter school staffer in sex abuse scandal
A part-time staffer at a celebrated Harlem charter school was a predator who sexually abused multiple students, according to a lawsuit. Darnelle Watts, 28, an after-school music teacher at Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy II, was indicted in October on charges he sexually abused two young boys at the school between 2014 and 2015. Harlem…
Shooting victim dies moments after he’s dropped off at hospital
A gravely wounded gunshot victim died two minutes after he was dropped off at a Brooklyn hospital by a pair of men who then fled early Saturday, police said. The 25-year-old man, who was shot in the chest, was dropped off at the emergency room at Woodhull Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 6 a.m….
My married boss was a cougar who fired me after I refused sex
She’s a cougar who likes to be in the driver’s seat. A Manhattan fashion designer with a lust for leather and flashy sports cars set her sights on a younger employee and then canned him when he objected to her advances, a lawsuit claims. Joanne Del Prete-Rosten, 52, met handsome 39-year-old Texan Daniel Coyle three…
City zoos ‘trained to use deadly force’ in case of emergencies
Gotham’s zoos are loaded for bear — with weapons on hand and specially trained marksmen ready to take out ferocious animals in case a human life is at risk. At the city’s five major zoos — one in each borough — a cache of rifles, revolvers and dart guns are kept at the ready. “Every…
Teacher kept photos of former students on school laptop: probe
A Queens middle-school teacher dated a former student and kept images of at least eight female students on a school laptop computer, investigators found. IS 227 teacher Stephen Taormina allegedly “tongue kissed” and groped a ninth-grade student in his car after beginning an illicit relationship with her the summer after she graduated from the intermediate…
Neighbors sue building mogul over town house construction
A home-building mogul has now ticked off both his West Village neighbors with the renovation of his town house. Ara Hovnanian and his wife, Rachel, snagged the West Fourth Street home from actor Anthony LaPaglia for $7 million in 2012, and were quickly sued by next-door neighbor Daniel Kramer, who claims Hovnanian’s construction shifted Kramer’s…
Perv slaps teacher’s butt after wandering into school: cops
A creep wandered into a Bronx public school Friday morning and slapped a teacher on the buttocks, cops said. The perv, captured on surveillance video, entered PS 279 on Walton Avenue near East 181st Street in Fordham Heights at about 7:50 a.m., when the door was opened at the beginning of the school day. He…
Woman with stroller almost hit after NYPD cruiser runs into car
Dramatic video posted online this week appears to show a police cruiser striking a suspect’s car during a pursuit in Brooklyn — causing the car to slam into a utility pole, narrowly missing a woman pushing a stroller. That seems to contradict a police report that says that the suspect’s car struck the cruiser. James…
Hamptonites aren’t racist, they just ‘don’t want poor people’ around: officials
Ritzy Hamptonites who oppose their town’s affordable-housing plan aren’t racist — they just don’t like poor people, town officials say. “Most opponents would prefer the people who mow their lawns, cook their food, and baby-sit their children live elsewhere,” said East Hampton Housing Authority director Catherine Casey, who developed the $18-million proposal to build a…
Daily Blotter
The Bronx Police recovered ahandgun from a subway fare-beater in West Farms, authorities said Saturday. Two transit officers spotted Trevale McCall, 26, hop a turnstile without paying in the 174th Street station on the 2 and 5 lines at about 5:55 p.m. Friday, cops said. The officers stopped McCall on the platform and, after inspecting…
Separate assaults on young women could be related
Two young women were brutally pummeled in separate attacks in Manhattan over the Memorial Day weekend — and cops are looking at the possibility that the same person is responsible for the two incidents, police sources said. On Saturday at about 2:20 a.m., a thug snuck up on a 30-year-old woman and dragged her to…
De Blasio says investigations are just part of the job
He’s the only city elected official known to be under investigation — but Mayor de Blasio insists probes of those in public office are a dime a dozen. “I think investigations are unfortunately, in modern American public life, they are part of the woodwork now,” the mayor (left) said Friday on NY1. During an appearance…
School ‘donor’ a serial scammer who once posed as a Yankee
If they had done their homework, officials at a Brooklyn high school would have quickly discovered that a donor who created havoc with a bogus $1.5 million check is a serial scammer who has served time in prison. Juan Diaz Romero had a rap sheet dating back almost two decades before he turned up last…
Teen’s fatal asthma attack came after gang fight: cops
The death of a black teenage boy on Staten Island last week came after a pre-arranged, gang-related street fight between two rival crews — and there’s no firm evidence to suggest that it was a bias incident, NYPD officials said Friday. Dayshen McKenzie, 16, suffered a fatal asthma attack and keeled over in a back…
City needs a new company to haul away tons of trash
The city is rushing to find another company to haul away 25 percent of New York’s trash after a years-long process to award the $3.3 billion deal fell apart, officials said. A tentative 20-year agreement fell through last month when Progressive Waste Solutions announced that subsidiary IESI NY wouldn’t be able to dump 752,000 tons…
Man reaches $3M settlement with trust-funder who mowed him down
A Queens dad who won a $3 million settlement Friday from a trust-funder who mowed him down in 2010 driving the same Lexus he nearly killed a cyclist with a year later has a message for the reckless driver: Stay off the streets. “I just hope I don’t run into him again,” Cesar Velazquez told…
Man accused of gunning down teen baby-sitter held without bail
A Brooklyn man accused of gunning down a teen baby sitter in front of her 3-year-old cousin was held without bail Friday evening. Taariq Stephens, 25, was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon — a .40-caliber Kel-Tec submachine gun. No witness statements were available, according to the prosecution, but police say…
Daily Blotter
The Bronx Cops are looking for two men — nicknamed “Slim” and “Platinum” — in connection with a fatal shooting in Wakefield last weekend. Two people were in a car at the corner of Baychester and Schieffelin avenues — just steps from Bronx Alliance Middle School and Cardinal Spellman HS — when they were shot…
Armed maniac reports himself as victim of his own ‘crime spree’
An armed maniac went on a one-man crime spree aboard a bus, car, taxi and scooter — then had the nerve to walk into a Queens police station and report himself as a victim, police sources said. But one thing he hadn’t counted on – the man whose scooter he hijacked was standing in the…
High school administrators bungled gang rape threat: DOE sources
Administrators at Boys and Girls HS had a handwritten statement from a 9th grade girl saying that a boy threatened to gang rape her in a locker room — but they failed to properly report it, Department of Education officials said on Friday. Instead, a summary was filed into the DOE’s Online Occurrence Reporting System…
NYPD eyes death of black teen as possible hate crime
A black Staten Island teen suffered a fatal asthma attack last week while being chased by a group of white and Hispanic men — and now investigators are looking into whether he was the victim of a hate crime, police sources said. Dayshen McKenzie, 16, keeled over in a back yard on Spartan Avenue near…
Two teens who beat up elderly woman on train surrender
Two teenage girls who allegedly pummeled a 78-year-old woman in a Brooklyn subway station after she asked them to remove their feet from a seat so she could sit turned themselves in Friday while accompanied by their moms, cops said. One of the mothers recognized her daughter in a surveillance photo that cops released after…
Feds have trove of evidence from restaurant owner popular with NYPD bosses
Manhattan federal prosecutors have collected “four to five months” worth of wiretaps and as many as 30,000 emails from Hamlet Peralta, the former owner of a Harlem eatery who palled around with high-ranking NYPD officers at the center of a wide-ranging corruption probe. “The discovery is fairly voluminous,” Manhattan Assistant US Attorney Russell Capone told…
Man fatally shot in lower Manhattan
A 22-year-old man was gunned down outside of a lower Manhattan housing complex early Friday, cops said. The victim was found shot to the torso just before 2 a.m. in a courtyard of the Lillian Wald Houses on East Sixth Street in the East Village. He was taken to Beth Israel Hospital, where he was…
Sampson: I’m no Skelos, so give me a sentencing break
Lawyers for John Sampson say the ex-state senator deserves a sentencing break — because he’s not as bad as Dean Skelos. In papers filed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, Sampson’s attorneys claim imposing the 87-month prison term on July 20 that prosecutors want would “raise significant concerns about unwarranted disparities” — because Skelos got five…
Socialite accuses realtor of helping ex hide her pricey art
A Palm Beach socialite is accusing a Manhattan real-estate maven of helping her estranged husband conceal a trove of artwork by masters like Matisse and Picasso that are at the heart of the former couple’s bitter divorce battle. Florida resident Gina Disabatino sued Jana Bullock, who flips mansions in the city with her RIGroup, in…
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