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Police are looking for three men in connection with a mugging near Bryant Park in broad daylight. By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  November 22, 2022  MANHATTAN - A trio of CD sellers drive a hard bargain. According to police when a man wanted to buy a CD for $10, they forced to pay up $220.   The NYPD released surveillance photos of the three suspects. One photo is of the three men on the street. Another was taken inside a local grocery store.  At around noon on November 17, a 22-year-old was walking near Bryant Park when he was approached by three men selling CDs. He agreed to buy one of the CDs for $10.  Police are looking for a man wearing a hoodie with a drawing of a cat on one side and a bird on the other. Apparently the sellers were insulted by the offer. Instead they strong armed the man and walked him over to a nearby ATM. Cops say they forced the victim to remove $220 in cash from the machine.  The robbers fled on foot with the cash.  Th

Police are looking for five men in connection with two robberies outside Grand Central Terminal on separate occasions.  By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  November 22, 2022  MANHATTAN - A group of four or five men beat and robbed people outside Grand Central Terminal on at least two occasions, cops say.  The NYPD released photos from surveillance video taken from inside a subway station. The first batch shows the crew with face masks and their hoodies covering their faces. However, they were not so careful in the other photo which showed several members without the face masks clearly showing their faces.   The first attack happened at around 2 am on November 8. Cops say a 28-year-old was walking toward the Vanderbilt Avenue and East 42 Street entrance to Grand Central Terminal. A group of four men ran up behind him and attacked.  They repeatedly punched and kicked the victim as they tried to remove his backpack. They were not able to remove the backpack and fl

Screamed ‘Asian Pig’ as They Beat Couple Police are searching for these three for a possible hate crime attack on the subway. By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  November 21, 2022  MANHATTAN   - A trio of attackers screamed “Asian Pig” as they beat and stomped on a couple on the Times Square subway shuttle. Cops say the attackers demanded the victims’ seats on the train before spewing hate and beating the subway riders. The NYPD released photos of the man and two women suspected of attacking a defenseless couple on the shuttle train simply because they wanted their seats. One of the photos shows one of the suspected attackers laughing.  At around 8 pm on Saturday, November 19, a 42-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, both of Asian decent, were sitting in the subway shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square, when the trio approached them. The group demanded that the couple give up their seats to them. When they refused, the attackers began punching and kicking

Photos by Julie Larsen Maher © Bronx Zoo   BRONX - As the giant light switch is flipped to the ON position, the 2022 season of the Bronx Zoo’s Holiday Lights is officially underway. The family-favorite tradition is the unofficial start to the New York City holiday season and will run on select dates through Jan. 8.   Holiday Lights is a fully outdoor experience. The six lantern trails have been reimagined and more than 70 new lanterns/30 new species have been added for 2022. In all, there are more than 360 wildlife-themed lanterns representing 90 species spread across an expansive area of the zoo. Each of the lantern trails depict scenes from geographic regions and ecosystems around the world: North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, oceans, and the Forest of Color which features larger-than-life representations of some of the lesser known but impressively colorful animals and plants vital to life on Earth.   “Holiday Lights returned to the Bronx Zoo in 2019 and ea

Three connected buildings on Valentine Avenue is apparently a group home for the disabled, where one resident has been charged in a 2021 homicide in Manhattan in a photo taken on Sunday, October 30, 2022.--Photo by David Greene By David Greene  Manhattan Voice  November 17, 2022 MANHATTAN - Nearly 11-months after a double shooting / homicide in the Inwood section of Manhattan, police have announced the arrest of a third suspect in the crime. On November 16, police announced the arrest of Blake Martinez, 22, of 10th Avenue in Manhattan, who was charged with murder, robbery, assault and criminal posession of a weapon. The arrest comes a little more than three-weeks after police announced the arrests of two Bronx men, Luis Rodriguez, 28, of Valentine Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights and Jeremy Lopez, 21, of Waldo Avenue in Kingsbridge, who were both charged in the killing. Police say the three men took part in the crime that took place at 10 p.m. on December 17,  2

$200,000 + in Jewelry Robbed By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  November 17, 2022  MANHATTAN - A robbery crew sporting bad wigs made off with over $200,000 worth of jewelry from a display at the Metro Pavilion.  At around 11 am on October 26, three men and a woman entered the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street. Cops say they removed 120 pieces of jewelry from a display.  The stolen jewelry is valued at $225,000.   Police released surveillance video of the suspects who were seen wearing face masks and bad wigs. One of the suspects was caught on camera without his mask or wig and cops are hoping this will lead to their arrests.   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 by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at  https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/  or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 

Police are searching for this man for allegedly exposing himself in front of riders. By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 16, 2022   MANHATTAN - A female straphanger snapped a pic of a subway perv who was playing with himself on a train in Harlem.  At around 6 am on October 8, a 23-year-old woman was riding the southbound A train. As the train was pulling into the West 125 Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue station she looked up to see the man sitting across from her had exposed himself. The man proceeded to masturbate in full view of the other riders.  The woman took a photo of the suspected perv and gave it to police. She told the NYPD that the man remained on the train even after being caught.  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 by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at  http