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Cops Arrest 1 Man, Seek 1 more in NYC Hate Crime Attack, Robbery Police arrested one man and are seeking another in connection with a hate crime attack. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  July 25, 2023  MANHATTAN - An New York man was hit with hate crime charges in connection with the robbery of a man who was beaten and pelted with anti-gay remarks, cops said. A second suspect is still at large.  Yesterday police arrested 27-year-old Terrell Porch. He was charged with hate crime/robbery, robbery, hate crime/assault, criminal possession of stolen property, aggravated assault and assault.   Police are still searching for another suspect in the attack. At around 3 am on July 16, a 49-year-old man was walking in front of a brownstone on West 154th Street in Hamilton Heights when he was approached by two men. Cops said without warning the men began punching the victim repeatedly about the head and body. As the attackers wailed on the vic...

Mayor “Get Stuff Done” debuted a new plan to “Get Sheds Down” Construction workers erect scaffolding along Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, April 18, 2023. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Katie Honan, The City This article was originally published on Jul 24 6:43pm EDT by THE CITY NEW YORK - Sidewalk sheds and scaffolding that surround buildings sometimes for years on end could finally be dismantled as part of a campaign Mayor Eric Adams unveiled on Monday to allow building owners to use less-invasive measures instead of scaffolding. “They block the sunlight, keep pedestrians away from businesses and are a magnet for illegal activity,” the mayor said Monday in Chelsea of the “ugly green boxes” that are a fixture on city streets. He said the sheds can also become a “safe haven for criminal behavior” and that the city’s own rules make it harder to take them down. “If we’re honest about it, when we did an analysis, we realized that city rules are incentivizing property o...

Police have made one arrest in the shooting inside a subway station near Stuy Town. The woman and another man are still at large, cops said. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice July 24, 2023 MANHATTAN - Cops just arrested the suspected gunman accused of shooting up a Stuy Town subway station after getting in to dispute with another man. It is unclear if the gunman, his intended target and another woman were all together before the dispute turned violent.  Police today announced the arrest of Aaron Vasquez, 21, of Brooklyn. Cops said he is the suspected gunman who opened fire inside the 1st Avenue subway station on July 10. Vasquez was charged with attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. According to police, the incident began as a dispute at around 2 am on July 10 on the platform for the L Train at the 1st Avenue station at Stuyvesant Town. Cops said the two men started arguing and then began physically fighting on the ...

Know the causes of abnormal mestruation. -File Photo By Adolescent Medicine Specialist, Dr. Elizabeth Alderman and Pediatric Hematologist, Dr. Jennifer Davila  Manhattan  Voice  July 24, 2023 HEALTH - Most people with the potential to have periods, or menstrual bleeding, generally get their first period between the ages of 10 and 15 years of age. Periods usually come every three to six weeks and may last up to seven days. Sometimes, periods do not become regular until two to three years after the first period.    What is considered heavy menstrual bleeding?  A normal length for a menstrual period could be up to seven days. In terms of how much bleeding is too much, it’s generally a little more than five tablespoons over the course of the period. If a person who menstruates needs to change a pad or tampon every hour for more than every one to two hours, due to excessive bleeding, then that’s too much.  Passing blood clots more than th...

Batteries charging at the hub | Claudia Irizarry Aponte/THE CITY The discovery came amid the Adams administration’s efforts to step up e-bike fire prevention laws. Grubhub and its partner, e-bike rental start-up JOCO, say the city’s findings are a “misunderstanding.” By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, The City This article was originally published on Jul 24 5:00am EDT by THE CITY NEW YORK - The city’s fire and buildings departments found roughly 60 lithium-ion batteries it deemed not authorized for use in the U.S. — a violation of the city electrical code — at a SoHo e-bike charging hub operated by Grubhub and JOCO. Grubhub and JOCO, a start-up e-bike rental company for delivery workers, debuted the 259 Bowery location last month as part of their efforts to provide “continuous safe e-bike storage, battery exchange, and delivery rider gear,” Grubhub said at the time. Mayor Eric Adams helped cut the ribbon at the site’s grand opening on June 14.  Adams at the ribbon-cutting ...