Three people were killed and nearly two dozen injured in shootings across New York City this weekend, according to the NYPD. NYPD data shows 50 people were shot in 46 separate shooting incidents over a seven-day period ending Sunday evening – a more than 300% surge from the same week in 2020. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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A Hatzolah Paramedic is in serious condition after an accident while flying a “Paramotor”. Sources tell YWN that the accident happened around 5:00PM in Keansburg, NJ (in Monmouth County). The victim was airlifted to the Jersey Shore Trauma Center, where he is in serious condition. He is a Paramedic for Catskills Hatzolah as well as Kiryas Joel Hatzolah. Please say Tehillim for רפאל בן מרים. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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An NYPD lieutenant was dragged by a vehicle driven by an alleged drunken driver in Brooklyn early Friday morning. He was taken to a hospital with minor injuries and has since been released. The driver, Takim Newsom, 32, fled the scene but later was arrested in Nassau County, according to the NYPD. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Police responding to audio technology that detects the sound of gunshots have found a person shot dead on a New York City street. The NYPD said on Saturday that the shooting happened around midnight in the south Bronx. Police said the ShotSpotter system alerted them to the gunfire. They said officers who responded found a 35-year-old man with fatal wounds to the head and torso. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. His identity was withheld pending notification of relatives. There were no arrests. ShotSpotter is an advanced system of sensors, algorithms and artificial intelligence that detects, locates and alerts police to gunshots in real time. Sensors typically are attached to buildings and lampposts.

A transformed Penn Station would replace windowless concourses and dingy, cramped corridors with light-filled spaces and easier access to an improved streetscape, under plans revealed Wednesday by Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the area’s major transit agencies. The station, situated underneath Madison Square Garden, is the nation’s busiest and operates — at full capacity during normal times — with roughly 600,000 passengers passing through daily on regional rail lines, Amtrak and the New York subway system. The two alternatives revealed Wednesday are the culmination of a yearlong process involving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, architectural firm FXCollaborative and engineering firm WSP.

A woman who says she was shackled by police for hours while in active labor has settled a lawsuit against New York City for $750,000, her lawyers announced Thursday. The woman, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, was arrested for a minor charge in 2018 when she was more than 40 weeks pregnant, she said in the suit filed in Brooklyn federal court. She was handcuffed and shackled during labor and after she gave birth to her son, according to the lawsuit filed by The Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP. “Shackling pregnant people is a dehumanizing and pointless practice that has no place in New York City,” Anne Oredeko, supervising attorney of the racial justice unit at The Legal Aid Society, said in a news release announcing the settlement.

A Bangladeshi immigrant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after he set off a homemade pipe bomb in a tunnel between Times Square and Port Authority in December 2017, an act that federal prosecutors noted was “one of the few completed terror attacks in New York City since 9/11.” The best-case scenario for defendant Akayed Ullah’s was 35 years behind bars, but Judge Richard Sullivan opted for life in prison. The sentence was handed down after Akayed Ullah apologized in court, saying what he did was wrong. “I can tell you from the bottom of my heart I’m deeply sorry for what I did,” Ullah said. “I apologize to NYC, to law enforcement, and to this country.

Through the darkest times, the Jewish people have always found a way to stand together. Now, you have a chance to unite with tens of thousands of fellow Jews around the world. United for protection nears the completion of the 2nd Unity Torah, dedicated to all Hatzalah members. Take a moment to make sure you and your family have secured a letter in the Torah which is uniting Klal Yisroel in a historic way. Visit https://hatzalahthon.com/ The first Unity Torah, begun in an effort to end the pandemic by uniting Jewish people around the world, was completed last year in a grand celebration.

New York City saw another spike in shootings last week, new NYPD data shows. Twenty-nine people were shot in 28 separate incidents between April 12 and April 18, NYPD statistics obtained by the New York Post show. That figure represents a 250 percent increase in the number of shootings that happened during the same week last year, when eight people were shot in eight separate incidents, the outlet reported. Homicides were down year-over-year last week, according to the report. Four people were killed in New York City last week, compared to 10 in 2020. (AP)

A former police lieutenant-turned-lawyer was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison after cheating a fellow officer of $900,000 he was owed for working at the smoldering World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Gustavo Vila, 62, of Yorktown Heights, New York, was sentenced Monday in White Plains federal court by Judge Vincent L. Briccetti after pleading guilty in October. Briccetti issued a sentence of four years and three months in prison, which was the highest potential sentence recommended by federal sentencing guidelines. Vila had admitted cheating the U.S. government by only forwarding $100,000 of over $1 million in proceeds from the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund destined for John Ferreyra.