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  The selection of Tutor Perini and O & G Industries to design and build the White Street lockup represents a final piece in the borough-jails puzzle.   This article originally appeared in The City. By  Reuven Blau NEW YORK - The city’s ambitious plan to close Rikers Island took a major step forward after the Adams administration this month tapped two construction firms to build a new lockup in lower Manhattan — one of the final major outstanding contracts.  The city’s Department of Design and Construction intends to use Tutor Perini and O & G Industries to construct the new 1,040 bed jail on White Street in Chinatown, officials announced earlier this month.    “This is the last big piece when it comes to the jail side of construction,” Zachary Katznelson, executive director of the Independent Rikers Commission which lobbies for the closure of the jails by the East River, told THE CITY on Wednesday. In May 2023,...

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a mugging in Chinatown. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice November 6, 2024  Follow @x MANHATTAN - Cops are looking for a pair of muggers who beat a retiree on the street during a robbery in Chinatown.  At around 3:35 am on September 1, a 63-year-old man was walking in the vicinity of 120 East Broadway in Chinatown. Cops said two men ran up to him and pushed the victim to the ground.  As the man lay on the sidewalk, the attackers began repeatedly punching and kicking the victim. Then one of the attackers pulled out a knife and threatened the beaten victim who handed over his wallet.  The attackers then ran off in an unknown direction.  Cops said the muggers made off with $300 cash and credit cards.  The victim was treated for injuries to his head, face and arm.  The NYPD recently released surveillance video of one of the suspects. He is described as a man with a...

Mom Shot in Head During LES Robbery  -File Photo By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  September 10, 2024  Follow @x MANHATTAN - A woman was shot and killed in front of her family during a robbery inside a Chinatown condo, cops said.  Ying Zhu Liu was shot to death at around 11 pm last night inside her building at 44 Market Street.  Cops are looking for the gunmen.  Investigators say two men dressed in black and wearing ski masks tried to rob Liu’s husband. When she tried to intervene, gunfire erupted and the 57-year-old wife and mom was shot in the head.   The gunmen fled the building with the husband’s cell phone.  Liu was pronounced dead at the scene.  Cops did not give a description of the gunmen.  Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at  1-800-577-TIPS  (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips...