Ticket “agent” offers two women “assistance” near Bowling Green. March 2025. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Beware!: Battery Park Tourist Scammers Persist Despite Years of Complaints & Warnings Let’s call it Anarchy in Battery Park. That’s the impression a visitor gets as they traverse this historic jewel of lower... News 28 Mar 2025 | 04:56
Welcome to Maritime City! The A.A. Thomson & Co building, outside and in, March 12, 2025. ( Brian Berger) South Street Seaport Museum Opens Stunning Maritime Exhibit Ship ahoy! Have ye see the Maritime City exhibition? Hotly anticipated since last autumn, when the A.A. Thomson & Co. warehouse... News 24 Mar 2025 | 01:39
Congressman Jerry Nadler speaks at Comptroller Brad Lander’s pro-congestion rally, March 20, 2025. ( Brian Berger) Congestion Pricing Fans Rally for Continued Tolling, Against Trump Threats to MTA Money A small contingent of congestion-pricing supporters, led by City Comptroller Brad Lander and Congressman Jerry Nadler, gathered... News 24 Mar 2025 | 08:00
Equinox and Life Time gym robbery gang, January 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) West Side Tire Slasher Caught & Released; Equinox Gym Robbery Gang on the Loose The alleged West Side Tire Slasher—or at least one of them—has been arrested. His name is Jesus Navarro, 41, and his suspected... News 23 Mar 2025 | 10:27
Left: NYPD traffic agent puncher; Right: Swastika-painting graffiti vandals—note masks and gloves. ( Photo: NYPD) Parking Scofflaw Punches Traffic Agent; Vandals Hit Tesla; LES Ice-Pick Killer Indicted If getting parking and other tickets were a competition, the driver of New York State license plate 92862MM would likely... News 23 Mar 2025 | 06:40
Public lewdness suspect on southbound 5 train, March 11, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Gang Member Targeting Hell’s Kitchen Gay Men Sentenced; Public Lewdness on 5 Train Hell’s Kitchen Gay Bar ‘Slay Gang’ Member Sentenced One of the most notorious crimes directed at Manhattan’s LGBTQ community... News 23 Mar 2025 | 01:18
True North Flatiron, 43 West 16th Street, as seen in August 2022. ( Photo: Google Maps) Flatiron Super Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Rape The heinous crimes of Jose Espinoza, the Flatiron District building convicted of the rape and labor trafficking of a migrant... News 17 Mar 2025 | 06:21
Left: Runners on the FDR Drive; Right: Fogo Azul NYC Bateria drum corps drives runners on at East 42nd Street and First Avenue. ( Photo: Brian Berger) 27,000+ Runners Defy the Fog for 13.1 Miles in NYC Half-Marathon More than 27,000 runners from around the globe galloped, jogged, and, in some case, trudged, from Brooklyn to Central Park... News 17 Mar 2025 | 03:48
Sara D. Roosevelt Park, southeast gate: After (March 10, 2025) and Before (October 28, 2024). ( Photo: Brian Berger) Sara D. Roosevelt Park Revisited: Out With Homeless Camps & Drug Dens, In With Chinatown Pride Call it the little park that could. Five months after Straus News’ October 2024 expose “Anarchy in Sara D. Roosevelt Park,”... Home 11 Mar 2025 | 01:54
Home health aide protesters outside Chinese-American Planning Council, March 5, 2025. ( Photo: Ain’t I A Woman Instagram) Home Health Aides Protest Chinese Social Services Giant CPC and Others—Again Dozens of impassioned protesters gathered outside the offices of the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) at 45 Suffolk... News 10 Mar 2025 | 04:06
Suspect on Jefferson Street, Feb. 16, 2025. Photo at right at southeast corner of Jefferson & Henry. ( Photo: NYPD ) Madman Sexually Assaults & Robs Woman on Jefferson Street If you never heard of Jefferson Street in Manhattan before, or are only dimly aware of its existence somewhere on the grid... News 10 Mar 2025 | 09:51
Slashed Volkswagen tire on a West 68th Street. ( Photo: I Love The Upper West Side X) Vicious Vandals Violate Vehicles Across UWS Sometime in the darkness of Saturday evening March 2 and Sunday morning March 3, multiple cars had their tires and windows... News 10 Mar 2025 | 07:53
Left: the suspected tire slasher exiting the subway. Right: The same individual walking up Seventh Avenue. ( Photo: NYPD, highlights by Straus News) Maniac Slashes Tires of 19 NYPD Vehicles Near Precinct Building There’s a portly masked maniac on the loose who appears not to like New York’s Finest so much. That’s but one conclusion to... News 09 Mar 2025 | 06:45
Seventh-floor landing at 108 Greenwich St., home to TemptationsNYC and other businesses. ( Photo: Brian Berger) City Accuses FiDi Sex Club of Prostitution but Building Home to Other Mysteries Too If they don’t catch you coming, they might catch you going. This was the “clever” lead a reporter thought of when he heard... News 04 Mar 2025 | 03:48
Left: Bullet holes marked by tape in Tom & Jerry’s Bar window, Sat Mar 1, 2025. Right: Suspect in Bleecker Street assault & robbery, Feb. 12, 2025. ( Photo: Wills Robinson X / NYPD) Gunman Kills Bouncer in Elizabeth St. Bar; Youth Mugs Senior on Bleecker St. Downtown’s most shocking public homicide of the year occurred early Saturday March 1 around 3:20 a.m., outside Tom & Jerry’s... News 03 Mar 2025 | 01:50
Ceremony Remembers Victims Who Perished in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire