Vigil held for slain mother of three
More than 100 people gathered at the John Adams Houses playground in Longwood on Wednesday, holding candles and anti-gun banners to remember 29 year old Jessica White, and to condemn…
Tension rises as NYCHA police patrols and crime collide
In the wake of the shooting of two police officers in a stairwell, residents of the Melrose Houses expressed concern about what they see as a collision course between a…
Two housing cops shot, shooter kills self in Melrose Houses
Residents of Melrose Houses say they are satisfied with police patrols in their building even after a violent incident on Feb. 4 in which a gunman shot two police officers…
40th Precinct launches program to fight crime, patch relations
A new NYPD program that kicked off in mid-January is taking aim both at rising crime rates and at strained relations between the 40th Precinct and Mott Haven residents.
Cop was hit by ‘friendly fire’
The police officer who was shot in the right ankle after responding to a massive melee that spilled onto the streets of Mott Haven, has undergone surgery at Lincoln Medical…
Cop, suspect shot in Mott Haven melee
An after-hours altercation that spilled onto the streets from a Port Morris social club led to the wounding of an officer and six men involved in the fight on Jan.…
Sting breaks up Patterson Houses gangs
48 arrested on weapons, narcotics and murder charges Two rival gangs that terrorized area NYCHA complexes have been silenced as the result of a sting by the feds and the NYPD.…
Mott Haven-based luxury-vehicle theft ring taken down
A joint investigation by NYPD and the New York State attorney general's office alleges that a criminal ring used a lot at 380 Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven to stash…