Crime

Year after year, statistics show that the overwhelming majority of arrests for marijuana possession occur in neighborhoods with large black and Latino populations.

Cops are searching for a suspect in an attempted rape that happened early Tuesday morning on Ludlow Street near Rivington Street.

A 55-year-old man was brutally beaten in a robbery Monday night in the lobby of the Rutgers Houses. It happened around 10:40 p.m. at a building near Pike and Rutgers street. Two attackers came up behind their victim, punched him...

A 30-year-old man is in custody this morning -- accused of slashing two women in separate incidents on the Lower East Side.

Police are looking for a suspect who slashed a man during an incident at Piano's, the Ludlow Street bar, in the early morning hours this past Sunday. According to officers at the 7th Precinct, the suspect walked into Piano's with...

Police are looking for a suspect who went on a racist rant early Monday morning and viciously attacked a Lower East Side resident.

Come out and meet your Sector Boy Neighborhood Coordination Officers! Please join us at the Abrons Art Center 466 Grand street. Feb 1, 2018 from 6:30 pm -8:00 pm. We cant wait to see you! #nypd#nypdconnectspic.twitter.com/0cmJYfKJTI — NYPD 7th Precinct...

New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill is making a lot of personnel changes to start 2018, as 29 captains were reassigned this week. Here on the Lower East Side, the 7th Precinct will be seeing new leadership.

Cops from the 7th Precinct are looking for three suspects in an armed robbery at the LES Mini-Mart & Grocery, 127 Rivington St., Saturday evening (Jan. 13) just after 10 p.m.

At the end of 2017, crime in New York City fell to levels not seen since the 1950s. There were 290 murders in the five boroughs last year -- in comparison to more than 2,000 murders recorded annually through...