“Michael McCloskey will serve a significant prison sentence for stabbing a man commuting during the early morning hours,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Although physically healed, the victim is still reeling from the effects of this attack. I thank the Port Authority Police Department for their fast response, which likely saved this New Yorker’s life.”
“Today, Wattie Folk is facing accountability for intentionally setting his friend’s apartment on fire. His reckless actions endangered tenants, destroyed property, killed two puppies, and severely injured five dogs,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Those who endanger the lives of people and animals in their homes will be held accountable.”
Manhattan has long been a center of Jewish culture and a safe haven for Jews around the world. Yet there has been a disturbing increase of antisemitism over the past year. As Manhattan district attorney — and a lifelong resident of the borough — I am extremely troubled by this increase in anti-Jewish hate.
A teen held in a Syosset orphanage was charged Tuesday with killing a groom-to-be and his passenger a day before the wedding in a wrong-way crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway in late August.
A 39-year-old man has been indicted after he struck an elderly woman and a police office in the face with a plate last month in Manhattan, prosecutors announced.
