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The NYPD is investigating after three people were filmed crawling out of a manhole near Penn Station; detectives say many sewer scavengers in the area are migrants, with prior incidents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Gravesend; no arrests have been made in this latest case, and officials stress that entering the sewer is illegal and extremely dangerous.
The NYPD is investigating a video showing three people in overalls with headlamps emerging from a manhole near Penn Station around 4 a.m. The Department of Environmental Protection inspected the sewer and found no structural damage. Similar underground sightings in Brooklyn and Queens earlier this year are being reviewed, but authorities say it’s not yet clear whether the incidents are connected.
A TikTok video shows three people in overalls with headlamps emerging from a Manhattan sewer near Penn Station and Madison Square Garden early on Aug. 18. The NYPD says the investigation is ongoing with no arrests, and a DEP official confirmed there was no damage to the sewer system and warned that entering manholes is illegal and dangerous. Earlier in May there were similar clips of people exiting sewers in New York City, but officials said there was no threat to public safety.
A 19-year-old Australian tourist was stabbed inside the 24/7 McDonald’s on Eighth Avenue near Penn Station around 2 a.m. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Police arrested Juan Mercedes, 25, of Florida, charging him with second-degree assault. The attack underscores the restaurant’s notoriety as a rough-after-hours spot known to attract a seedy crowd, with locals describing it as a dangerous
A 46-year-old Bronx man, Larry Montes, was arrested and charged with multiple hate-crime counts after disrupting Shabbat services at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, injuring a 63-year-old woman and head-butting a security guard as he was escorted out; prosecutors say he damaged synagogue property and spat at a congregant. The attack, condemned by city officials amid rising antisemitic incidents, led to two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count of criminal mischief as a hate crime, along with other charges.
A 46-year-old Bronx man, Larry Montes, was arrested at Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan and charged with hate-crime counts after disrupting Friday Shabbat services; while security was escorting him out, he assaulted a 63-year-old woman, damaged property, and spit at and headbutted a security member. An NYPD sergeant intervened and took him into custody. Authorities say there are no additional threats at this time.
The NYPD says it will not provide an overseas security detail for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife during a September trip to Syria and Lebanon, noting officers do not accompany personal travel to countries with level-4 travel advisories; Mamdani's office had previously claimed security would join the trip, but later attributed the change to a miscommunication as security concerns and travel advisories loom.
A 27-year-old woman and a five-month-old baby girl died after a boat overturned in New York Harbor near Liberty Island on Saturday night. Twelve people were rescued, and divers later recovered the bodies, who were Pronounced dead at the hospital. Authorities are investigating the capsize, with Coast Guard investigators en route to interview the vessel’s captain; no arrests have been reported.
Police identified 44-year-old Brooklynite Galymzhan Abaildayev as the naked man who climbed the Brooklyn Bridge’s north tower, erected flags (including a Kazakhstan flag), and jumped into the East River. He was pulled from the water by Harbor Unit officers and rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Abaildayev faces charges of reckless endangerment, criminal trespass, public lewdness, making graffiti and disorderly conduct stemming from the dramatic ascent and jump, which was captured on video showing him using a garment or bag as a makeshift parachute as he leaped from the 278-foot-tall towers.
A 12-year-old bystander, Jacob Freytes, the son of a retired NYPD sergeant, was killed by a stray bullet outside a Bronx bodega during a Saturday fight. William Ferrer, 45, was arraigned Sunday night on multiple charges including second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, first-degree manslaughter, first-degree and second-degree assault, and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Ferrer was remanded in custody; two other adults were wounded. The incident, described as gang-related in police filings, occurred near the Mount Eden bodega on Elliott Place and Freytes died later at a Bronx hospital.
Two people were found dead inside a Far Rockaway rowhome after a midday explosion; authorities say 33-year-old Kegan Thomas emerged with a large shotgun, refused to drop it, and was shot by police, later being hospitalized in critical but stable condition. His wife had described concerns about a history of mental illness, though police later said he had no documented mental illness in their records. The cause of the two deaths and the blast is still under investigation, and nearby homes were damaged with residents displaced.
An armed suspect wearing tactical gear emerged from a burning Far Rockaway home after a midday explosion and was shot by NYPD officers; two family members were found dead inside, the suspect is in custody in critical but stable condition, and investigators say the investigation is ongoing.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his NYC visit, despite admitting he cannot arrest him. NYPD unions warn the call could invite chaos and add to an already stretched force ahead of the UN General Assembly, while the mayor frames protests as a First Amendment right.
Two men were stabbed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side; police arrested 51-year-old Raul Morales and are reviewing whether the attacks were hate-motivated, after victims were identified as Asian and Jewish and Morales reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar'; both men were hospitalized in stable condition, Morales barricaded himself in a NYCHA building before being taken into custody, and officials say mental health may be a factor while leaders condemned the attacks.
Mary Golding, 34, a set decorator for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was found fatally stabbed in her Queens home just after midnight; her husband, Joseph Azzaretto, 33, was later found dead in Astoria Park in an apparent murder-suicide. Police said Golding died at the scene, and reports suggest Azzaretto confessed to the killing during phone calls to a friend and a family member, with their young child present in the home. The investigation is ongoing.