NYC Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget New York City Mayor Eric Adams hosted a rally in support of his “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” text amendment that will loosen decades-old zoning restrictions and help build a little more housing in every neighborhood on the steps of City Hall. -Photo by Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office By Mayor Eric Adams  Manhattan Voice  OpEd  May 7, 2024 NEW YORK - For over two years, cities across the country have struggled to respond to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In New York City, slowing tax revenue ..read more

Coin Deal Gone Bad  The NYPD is searching for these men in connection with the beating and robbing of a man looking to buy cryptocurrency. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  May 3, 2024  MANHATTAN - And you thought Sam Bankman-Fried was the biggest crook in crypto. Two men beat and robbed a man of $20,000 cash at a Manhattan hotel who was looking to buy crypto, cops said.  At around 5 pm on April 27, a 40-year-old man went to the Sonder Battery Park Hotel in Lower Manhattan. He had arranged the meeting with a man who claimed to have cryptocurr ..read more

Young Attacker Beats Elderly Tenant  The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the assault on a 79-year-old man inside the victim's Gramercy Park are building. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  May 2, 2024  MANHATTAN - A 79-year-old man was punched in the face, by a young attacker, inside the lobby of his Gramercy Park building, cops said.  Video taken from the lobby of a building in the vicinity of East 23rd Street and Third Avenue, shows the suspect arguing with a man off camera before the physical confrontation. The suspect is s ..read more

Hit with Arson Charges, Theft The NYPD has arrested 40-year-old James Carlson in connection with stealing an Israeli flag during a protest outside Columbia. Two other men are being sought for assault. -Photo by NYPD 2 Still Being Sought For Assault  By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  May 2, 2024 MANHATTAN - A 40-year-old Brooklyn man was charged with arson and for stealing a man’s Israeli flag during a protest outside Columbia, cops said. Police are searching for two other suspects for hitting the victim in the face with a rock.  The NYPD announced the arrest o ..read more

Seniors Strong Arm Woman Near Port Authority The NYPD is searching for this couple in connection with the mugging of a woman in Times Square. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  May 1, 2024 MANHATTAN - You can’t even trust the elderly in this city. Cops are looking for an elderly couple who mugged a woman in Times Square taking her cash and her wedding ring.  At around 2:15 pm on April 23, a 49-year-old woman was approached by an elderly couple in the vicinity of 42nd Street and 8th Avenue near the Port Authority. Cops said the couple talked to ..read more

Random Attack on Number 6 Line The NYPD is searching for this woman in connection with a vicious random attack on a female straphanger at the 28th Street station. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice April 28, 20224 MANHATTAN - A straphanger is recovering from a blitz attack by another subway rider on the Number 6 line, cops said. The victim was shoved into a wall and repeatedly punched in the face. At around 8:15 am on April 19, a 58-year-old woman was waiting on the southbound platform of the Number 6 train at the 28th Street station. Cops said a woman walked u ..read more

Gunman Order Man Out of Car The NYPD is searching for two suspects who carjacked a man in Harlem. The suspects were seen in a gray Infiniti. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice April 27, 2024 MANHATTAN - Cops are searching for a pair of carjackers who struck near Columbia University’s Harlem campus. At around 8 am on April 22, a 33-year-old male was sitting in his car in the vicinity of Claremont Avenue and West 120 Street. Two men dressed in black exited a gray Infiniti. Cops said the men in black walked up to the driver with guns drawn and demanded the driver’s car ..read more

Counter Palestinian Protester Hit in Face with Rock The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a hate crime assault during a protest at Columbia University. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice April 26, 2024 MANHATTAN - The NYPD is investigating a possible hate crime during a protest near Columbia University in which a man was hit in the head with a rock. At around 11 pm on April 20, a 22-year-old male was walking with a large flag at a protest in the vicinity of Amsterdam Avenue and West 116 Street near Columbia University’s Morningside Heights camp ..read more

81-Year-Old Woman Mugged 71-Year-Old Woman Knocked to Ground The NYPD is searching for these 2 women in 2 separate attacks on elderly women in Midtown. (Left) This woman is suspected of knocking a 71-year-old's walker out from under her. (Right) This women is suspected of roughing up an 81 year old to get money. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice April 25, 2024  MANHATTAN - Elderly women in Midtown were targeted in two separate attacks by younger women, cops said. One woman had her walker knocked out from under her.  At around 2:15 pm on April 13, a 71-year ..read more

Trump on Trial Amid Protests Scenes of some of the protesters outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial. -Photos by David Greene By David Greene  Manhattan Voice  April 24, 2024  MANHATTAN - In what many are calling the ‘trial of the century’, former President Donald J. Trump arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court on Centre Street where he faces 41 felony counts of falsifying business records pertaining to a $130,000 payment to porn star "Stormy" Daniels, days before the 2016 Presidential election.   The historic criminal trial, the fi ..read more