A contractor on the Second Ave. subway was allegedly shaking down workers, illegally demanding a 22 percent kickback from their wages.

“Daniel Hyden has been sentenced to 24-years-to-life in state prison for murdering four New Yorkers and severely injuring seven others as they were enjoying an annual Fourth of July barbecue. Ana Morel, Lucile Pinkney, Herman Pinkney, and Emily Ruiz went to the celebration not knowing that Daniel Hyden would end their lives that day with his pickup truck,” said DA Bragg.

A man who was drunk when he crashed his pickup truck into a Fourth of July barbecue in Lower Manhattan in 2024, killing four people, was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison on Friday.

Heartbroken New Yorkers whose relatives were mowed down by a drunken addiction counselor during a July Fourth party described their collective pain as the killer was sentenced to 24 years Friday — including how one child whose mother died now whispers “I want mommy” in the night.

The pickup driver who was drunk when he plowed into a Lower East Side park crowded with people celebrating the Fourth of July last year, killing four of them, was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison on Friday.