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Maspeth resident Roman Amatitla was arrested and booked at the 109th Precinct in Flushing where he was charged with murder, arson, and other related crimes for setting a fire last month that killed four occupants of a residential building on Avery Avenue.
Queens

Law enforcement sources scoff at DHS complaint that city rejected ICE hold on alleged Maspeth killer arsonist

By Bill Parry
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Queens

G-COP welcomes 104th Precinct’s new commanding officer, calls for recovery of radio access

By Paulina Albarracin
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at an NYPD crime briefing at One Police Plaza on Thursday, April 2, 2026.
Police & Fire

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: NYPD insiders say mayor falls short in police support

By Dean Moses & Robert Pozarycki
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Police & Fire

Hochul aims to reduce gun violence in NYC with $5 million HOPE grant to community groups

By Sadie Brown
Police from the 115th Precinct found the badly decomposing remains of a human beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Jackson Heights.
Queens

Decomposing human remains found under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Jackson Heights: NYPD

By Bill Parry
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Police & Fire

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Tisch distances mayor from NYPD hate-crime reporting change as overall crime falls in his first quarter

By Adam Daly
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Police & Fire

Department of Correction pushes for more staff, overtime in $1.4B budget as advocates call for downsize in borough-based jails move

By Isabella Gallo
Maspeth Firehouse suffered the greatest losses of any NYC firehouse on 9/11. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud.
Queens

Elected officials call for Maspeth Firehouse to be designated official city landmark ahead of 25th anniversary of 9/‌11

By Shane O’Brien
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz urged homeowners to protect against deed theft during a meeting in Astoria on Wednesday, March 18.
Queens

DA Katz urges Queens homeowners to protect against deed theft during Astoria public safety meeting

By Shane O’Brien
Gateway Tunnel work site
Courts

Gateway Tunnel: Federal judge partially tosses suit from commission, opens door for feds to claw money back from rail project

By Ethan Stark-Miller & Isabella Gallo
Members of the Bomb Squad and the FBI investigate a suspicious device on the Upper East Side a day after the Gracie Mansion attempted bombing on March 7, 2026.
Manhattan

Gracie Mansion terror plot: Mamdani urges broad rejection of violence as another bomb scare rattles Upper East Side

By Shea Vance
pols at Columbia University demand release of footage of student's arrest by ICE agents
Immigration

ICE at Columbia University: Pols demand surveillance, NYPD bodycam footage of student’s arrest

By Dean Moses
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Queens

CM Ariola holds hearing on FDNY response delays due to DOT street changes

By Patrick Stachniak
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Police & Fire

Columbia student detained by ICE released following Mamdani’s direct appeal to Trump

By Shea Vance
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The Bronx

Opinion | When courtrooms undermine public defenders, everyone suffers

By Orayne Williams
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Police & Fire

Privacy advocates urge Mamdani to use his mayoral powers and scale back the NYPD’s surveillance programs

By Adam Daly
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Police & Fire

NYPD releases images of teens who pelted cops with snowballs in Washington Square Park as outrage grows over unruly mob

By Dean Moses
Last migrant shelter site in New York city
The Bronx

City to close last migrant shelter as Mamdani seeks to end crisis-era shelter and Rikers policies

By Adam Daly
Police bodycam footage of man wounded in Queens police shooting
Queens

Queens man shot by NYPD during mental health crisis indicted on assault charge

By Adam Daly
Police bodycam footage of man wounded in Queens police shooting
Queens

Queens police shooting: NYPD releases bodycam footage of cop opening fire on man in mental health crisis

By Dean Moses and Adam Daly
Officers outside the Chakraborty family home on Jan. 26 following the shooting of 22-year-old Jabez
Queens

Queens police shooting of man in mental health crisis shows need for ‘Community Safety’ reform, Mamdani says

By Adam Daly & Dean Moses
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Police & Fire

NYC CRIME: Murders and shootings plummet to record-lows in January – but NYPD says rape and antisemitic crimes are up

By Barbara Russo-Lennon
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Immigration

Hochul moves to ban ICE from deputizing New York police, calls it a move to stop Trump ‘tyranny’

By Shea Vance
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Police & Fire

Subway crime dipped 4% in 2025 compared to the previous year; December saw slight uptick: NYPD

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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