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Nighttime Sexual Assault Is Latest in Park Slope Area

The police said the attack on a 29-year-old leaving the Prospect Avenue subway station on Fourth Avenue Wednesday was the 10th such attack in the area since March.

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A Gun, ‘Don’t Look at My Face,’ and Then They Hit the Safe

Two men pushed their way into an apartment on East 51st Street, bound the occupants and escaped with cash and jewelry.

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111 Charged in Elaborate Identity-Theft Scheme

The police and the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, announced the sweep against the operation, which they said took in $13 million: 75 were arrested, 21 are being sought and 15 are already...

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March on City Hall Calls for End to ‘Stop and Frisk’

About 400 protesters, including City Council members, crossed the Brooklyn Bridge to object to conduct by officers they consider racial profiling against black and Latino young people.

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Second Suspect Charged in Sex-Attack Pattern

The man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in May; additional police lineups are being conducted.

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Officials Renew Call for U.S. Review of Stop and Frisk Policy

At a news conference, State Senator Eric Adams said that he and other city leaders had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to investigate the police three months ago, and hadn't heard back.

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Plainclothes Officers Foil Robbery of S.I. Diner

The officers were taking a coffee break on Staten Island when a masked gunman burst in, the police said.

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No ‘Highway Therapy’ for Pepper-Spray Commander

One Police Plaza: An officer receives a new job after a pepper-spray encounter; and the proper behavior of an undercover officer is at issue in the Sean Bell police hearing.

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Politicians Demand a Panel to Investigate Police Corruption

Lawmakers said the allegations dogging the Police Department made it imperative that an independent body be established to monitor the police effectively.

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Protesters Arrested Outside Goldman Sachs Building

The police said the protesters apparently held a mock trial of Goldman Sachs, a main target of the Occupy Wall Street movement, at their encampment in Zuccotti Park before setting out for the building...

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Fire Prompts Partial Evacuation at Bronx Hospital

Hundreds of patients had to be moved after a fire broke out at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx on Wednesday.

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Zuccotti Park Protester Charged With Assault

A dispute between two Occupy Wall Street demonstrators ended in an injury to a medical worker who was called to the scene.

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A Crime Unfolds, Explodes and Ends, All in 7 Minutes

A robbery, car crash, chase and gunfight in Brooklyn ended with two arrests and no one wounded.

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Cars Burned and Swastikas Scrawled in Brooklyn Jewish Area

The police described the vandalism, in the Midwood section, as a hate crime.

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Shootings by Police Continue to Decline

New York City police officers shot and killed or wounded fewer people last year than at any time since the department began keeping track in 1971, according to a department report.

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