ARCHIVES AP As of June, nearly 59,000 people slept in homeless shelters in New York City, up from 42,000 in December 2011, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. – Richard Hétu, Special collaborationTHE PRESS Posted on September 14, 2015 at 5:00 a.m. – – – At the intersection of 14th Street and Broadway in … Read more
Photo archives Reuters – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted on February 23, 2016 at 3:25 p.m. – – – The New York police announced Tuesday the opening to the public of its statistics on crime, with for example interactive maps on the internet allowing to know everything about a particular neighborhood. Website https://compstat.nypdonline.org documents over a … Read more
PHOTO RICHARD DREW, ASSOCIATED PRESS Roses were placed on the 9/11 memorial installed at “Ground Zero” during a ceremony marking the 25e anniversary of the first World Trade Center attack on February 26. – ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted on February 26, 2018 at 4:06 pm – – – New York highlighted Monday the 25the anniversary of … Read more
PHOTO Kevin Hagen, AP A police official, Terence Monahan, said Wednesday evening during a press briefing that his men had intervened after receiving “three different calls” indicating “a man with a gun pointed at passers-by”. – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted on April 4, 2018 at 10:24 p.m. – – – New York police officers on … Read more
PHOTO JOSHUA LOTT, REUTERS New York City police officers escort 31-Year-old Erika Menendez to an awaiting car as she screams, at New York City Police department 112th Precinct in the Queens Borough of New York, December 29, 2012. Menendez who made self-incriminating statements was taken in custody in the death of a man pushed in … Read more
Photo: Reuters New York is known for its multimillionaires and exorbitantly rented luxury towers, but America’s largest city has also just broken a new record of 60,000 homeless people. – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted on February 3, 2015 at 7:35 p.m. – – – In a city with exorbitant rents, New York Mayor Bill de … Read more
PHOTO REUTERS – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted on March 26, 2015 at 4:10 p.m. Updated at 21:24 – – – Nineteen people were injured, including four seriously, Thursday after an explosion presumably due to gas that caused the collapse of three buildings and a major fire in the heart of New York. Among the seriously … Read more
PHOTO PROVIDED BY WIKIPEDIA Aerial view of Hart Island Cemetery – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted on July 9, 2015 at 12:59 p.m. – – – Long inaccessible, the graves of the Hart Island cemetery in New York, where nearly a million destitute, homeless or stillborn children are buried, will now be accessible to families thanks … Read more
Photo Robert Mecea, archives AP According to a study from Columbia University, there are two million rats in New York. – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted on July 12, 2017 at 1:22 p.m. – – – Depriving rats of food is the goal of New York City, which on Wednesday announced a plan for three particularly … Read more
AP – ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted on March 11, 2019 at 4:44 p.m. Updated at 4:44 p.m. – – – US customs officials made the largest cocaine seizure in the past 25 years at the ports of New York and New Jersey. The US customs agency said 1,450 kilograms of the drugs, divided into 60 packages, … Read more