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Examining Justice, Accountability By Jacob Oresky Manhattan Voice April 1, 2025 NEW YORK - The relentless pulse of New York City, a metropolis defined by its constant motion, carries a hidden cost: the persistent threat of car accidents. While the city invests in initiatives aimed at bolstering road safety, collisions remain a stark reality, leaving a trail of injured individuals and fractured families in their wake.  Understanding the multifaceted factors that contribute to these incidents, acknowledging their broader impact, and examining the often-complex path to justice are essential for fostering a safer urban environment. Despite dedicated efforts to curb traffic-related harm, car accidents in NYC continue to occur with unsettling regularity. What might be brushed off as a routine byproduct of big-city living often masks underlying issues of negligence and systemic vulnerabilities. Statistical snapsh...

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with an assault on a straphanger in the Flatiron District. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice March 26, 2025 MANHATTAN - The NYPD is looking for a man dressed as if he was going to the office or an author reading instead of a violent assault that wounded a straphanger in the Flatiron District.  At around 11 pm on March 17, 55-year-old man was at the turnstiles inside the 23rd Street Station Subway when he was approached by a man in a pink shirt who asked the straphanger to swipe his MetroCard to allow him to enter the turnstile. When the man refused the deadbeat attacked.  Cops said the suspect pushed the straphanger to the ground causing him to strike his head on the metal turnstile.  The attacker then fled the subway station. Cops said the victim suffered a laceration on his hea...

NYPD Searching for 8 Men, 1 Woman in Subway Mugging The NYPD is searching for 9 members of a robbery crew who viciously beat and robbed a man on a Number 6 train near Canal Street. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice March 17, 2025 MANHATTAN - Cops are looking for a robbery crew of eight men men and a woman in connection with a prison-style beaten down during a robbery on a Number 6 train.  The NYPD released surveillance video of the nine suspects accused of mugging a straphanger during an early morning attack.  At around 4:30 am on March 12, a 28-year-old was riding a southbound Number 6 train near the Canal Street station. Cops said a group of nine people approached the straphanger. Without word, the crew pounced.  All nine members of the group began punching and kicking the straphanger, kn...

  This article originally appeared in The City. By Gwynne Hogan NEW YORK - Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters overtook Trump Tower Thursday morning, staging a sit-in in the central atrium for over an hour in a a colorful and chaotic scene in the iconic location where Donald Trump famously descended a golden elevator to announce he was running for pr, esident in 2015. With Trump now beginning his second term, the group there under the banner of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace moved into the space to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of detained Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil by federal auth orities for his role in campus protests dedicated to the same cause. Patrons and workers looked on in confusion as waves of people entered the lobby at around 11:40 a.m. unfurling banners and sitting down in the subterranean cafeteria area,...

Bentley, Benz Drivers Targeted The NYPD is searching for this man and two others in connection with carjackings in Midtown. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  March 5, 2025  NEW YORK - Police have released new images of a pair of luxury car jackers who tried to boost a pair of high-end rides in Midtown last month.  The NYPD released new surveillance video of suspects wanted for two incidents 10 minutes apart from each other.  At around 11:20 pm on February 18, a 31-year-old driver was sitting inside his 2023 Bentley sedan parked in front of 37 West 28th Street. Police said three men walked up to the luxury car and pulled out handguns. They demanded the driver exit the car.  Cops said the driver shut the car off with a key fob causing the would-be thieves to flee in a white BMW. The driver was not injured and the car was not stolen.  Ten minutes later, cops said the same cr...