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Woman found dead inside duffel bag in her apartment

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MANHATTAN, NY – Local residents were struck with horror when a woman’s body was discovered in her New York apartment. Her remains were hidden away in a duffle bag. Identified as 52-year-old Nadia Vitel, her body was discovered during a welfare check at her 19th-floor residence in Kips Bay, Manhattan. Authorities arrived at the scene to check on her after concerns were raised by her family. Family members reportedly lost contact with Vitel, triggering worry …

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Bar shooting leaves three people hospitalized

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NEW YORK, NY – Chaos ensued in the early hours of Sunday when an unidentified man opened fire outside a bar in Harlem, injuring three men. The victims, aged 21, 39, and 46, were congregating outside Just Lorraine’s Place 2 on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard when the assailant approached them and began shooting. According to law enforcement sources, the shooter was seen wearing a red hat, dark jacket, and dark pants. The victims, all …

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Pedestrian dies after being hit by two different cars

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NEW YORK CITY, NY – A casual stroll in The Bronx turned tragic when a man was hit twice by two different cars, leading to his death. Wilbert de Jesus Cordero, aged 22, was crossing a street in the Parkchester neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday when the unfortunate incident occurred. Officers relayed that a southbound Mercedes Benz on White Plains Road first hit Cordero, sending him flailing into the road’s northbound lane. Here, …

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Woman dies after falling from 36-story luxury apartment building

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NEW YORK CITY, NY – In a tragic incident, a 35-year-old woman lost her life after falling from a renowned high-rise building in Manhattan’s upscale Upper East Side neighborhood. Reportedly, she was found dead on Thursday evening close to The Brittany, merely a short distance from Mayor Eric Adams’ Gracie Mansion residence. While there are minimal signs of criminality associated with the incident, the police investigation remains ongoing. The deceased woman was said to have …

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E-bike fire kills four people in New York City

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In an alarming wake-up call for New York City, an early morning inferno linked to lithium ion batteries proved fatal for four residents in Manhattan’s Chinatown. On Tuesday, Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh revealed that the deadly blaze began at HQ E-Bike Repair, a ground floor store cited last summer for violations related to its storage and charging of e-bike batteries. At the scene, Belal Alayah, a neighborhood resident, reported seeing the flames spread beyond the …

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Wildfire smoke in NYC makes the city’s air quality ranked as the worst in the world

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This week, a strikingly orange haze has descended upon New York City, bringing with it pollution levels surpassing those of all other major global cities. This phenomenon stems from the copious smoke produced by hundreds of wildfires ablaze in distant Canadian regions, with conditions predicted to persist across the Northeast throughout the weekend. Each of New York’s five boroughs has been put under an Air Quality Health Advisory due to prevailing wind currents driving the …

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Man finds out as he appears in court that his drunk-driving accident killed his fiance and baby

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Adem Nikeziq, a thirty-year-old man from Staten Island, New York, found out only minutes before appearing in court on Monday that his pregnant fiancé, Adriana Sylmetaj, and their unborn baby had died due to a drunk driving crash he caused. His attorney, Mark Fonte, told the New York Post that he had not been informed of the tragedy until just before entering the court room. Nikeziq was overcome withsadness upon hearing the news and broke …

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Student caught with gun inside of his backpack at NYC school

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A thirteen-year-old student was caught with a fully loaded .22-caliber gun concealed in his backpack at a Bronx public school in the morning of Thursday, according to police and other law enforcement sources. The authorities were called to the Academy for Personal Leadership and Excellence on E. 184th St. in Fordham Heights at 9:30 a.m. after school safety officers were informed that the adolescent had a gun in his backpack while on school’s campus. School …

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Teen arrested for fatally shooting 14-year-old Bronx boy

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A 17-year-old girl was arrested for the murder of a 14-year-old Bronx boy named Prince Shabazz, on November 30. A surveillance video showed two shooters, in black clothing, ambushing Shabazz and his 15-year-old brother. They appeared from a car parked on Morris Avenue near East 182nd Street in Fordham Heights. The two teens attempted to escape with the shooters in hot pursuit while firing randomly. Shabazz, who wore a white shirt, was struck down while …

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Subway Mass Shooter To Be Charged As A Terrorist

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Frank Robert James, suspected mass shooter of the New York City subway system, was charged Friday with additional federal terrorism charges. Before prosecutors added nine additional terror attack counts against him, bringing the total to ten, one for each victim struck by gunfire during the April 12 shooting, James, 62, was charged with carrying out a terror attack against a mass transit system and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. As a result …

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