Grand Larceny

Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge Produce an Album That's a Movie

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BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE

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Catherine Deneuve

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Sneakers celebrates 20 years at 92Y Tribeca

Manhattan Millionaires Dupe Government Into Giving Them Nearly $200K In Welfare Benefits

A couple of Manhattan millionaires were arrested this morning on charges that they ripped off the government to the tune of nearly $200,000 over the past six years by pretending to be poor in order to collect welfare benefits.We're not sure what's more disturbing: the fact that millionaires are alle ... More >>

For the First Time in 20 Years, New York's Crime Rate Is on the Rise

While Bloomberg brags about his record, the city's crime rate is on the rise

State Senator Shirley Huntley Tells Crowd She Will Be Arrested on Monday

At 11am this morning, the State Senator representing the Jamaica, Queens area called an emergency press conference at her home in the neighborhood. There, Shirley L. Huntley told the crowd that she expects to be arrested on Monday. Although she did not make clear what the charges against her would b ... More >>

Double Digit Crime Spikes In Almost One-Third of All City Police Precincts

Crime citywide is up by 4 percent through last week, pushed largely by an increase in grand larcenies, though there have been 15 percent fewer homicides so far this year over last, NYPD figures through July 8 show. Much more troubling are the larger increases in some of the city's police precincts. ... More >>

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

Assemblyman Rory Lancman Announces Anti-Hate Crime Bill

A recent spate of anti-semitic hate crimes has prompted Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman to propose a law that would toughen penalties on perps who vandalize houses of worship. The proposed measure would amend the current penal code, so vandalism and thefts that take place on religious property wou ... More >>

NYPD Numbers Show Sharp Increases in Crime So Far This Year

That jump in the citywide crime rate has continued through the sixth week of the year, up over 5 percent so far, with thefts and robbery accounting for the increase. Robberies, burglaries and grand larceny are all up 10 percent citywide. Crime is up through Feb. 12 by double digits in three of the ... More >>

Robert Caballero and Gordon Jenkins Face Charges of Stealing $310,000 from the Poor

​What's worse than stealing money? Why, stealing from poor people, of course! And that's exactly what Robert Caballero and Gordon Jenkins are accused of doing, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance. Vance indicted 53-year-old Caballero and 72-year-old Jenkins today on f ... More >>

A Leap Into the Familiar: Wrong-Man Thriller Man on a Ledge Goes Thud

NYPD, FDNY Year-End Numbers Show Overall Good News, Some Trouble Spots

A bit of good news as the passing of 2011 nears: homicides were down five percent for the year, the overall crime rate was flat, and fires killed just 64 people, the second lowest number of fire fatalities since 1916, the mayor's office says. But the neighborhood crime numbers reveal several trouble ... More >>

A One-Two Punch For The Oscars

​ The Oscars desperately need to get some glory back after their last dismal telecast. But when they announced Eddie Murphy as a host, we all wondered, "Isn't he on a bit of a career slide? Is he really the kind of piping-hot star they need right now?" Besides, don't Eddie's hideous homophob ... More >>

Tower Heist: Stealing From the Rich to. . . Make a Funny Movie

Guy Accidentally Carjacks Poodle, Kids

​Today in an exclusive the New York Post tells the harrowing tale of a car thief in Queens who found himself the unlucky temporary possessor of van containing two "plucky" (read: adorably obnoxious) little boys and their similarly adorably obnoxious mini-poodle. They heckled him ("Do you know ... More >>

JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark Airports All Having Issues These Days

​At Newark airport, your  flight will rarely be on time. At JFK, your stuff might get stolen: according to the Post, larcenies at Kennedy Airport are up 30 percent from the first half of 2010 (the most commonly stolen items are laptops and iPads). Looks like we're all booking out of LaGuardia ... More >>

"Geovanni Kasanova," Bronx Con Man, Seduced Bank Tellers In Identity Theft Scheme

The real Casanova.​Pro tip for single ladies: if a man introduces himself to you at a club as Geovanni Kasanova, it's a big red flag. Do not become his girlfriend. Do not let him convince you to access people's accounts at the bank where you work, making you a co-conspirator in a large-scale grand ... More >>

NYPD Crime Stats: Half The Year Over, Neighborhoods Seeing Spikes in Burglaries and Larcenies

​Well, the year is nearly half over, and it's time to do a bit of handicapping of the city's crime statistics. In general, some sections of the city are experiencing a spike in assaults, and a rash of economic crimes--burglaries and grand larcenies, mainly. Overall, citywide crime, according ... More >>

Great Christmas Day Diamond Heist in Chelsea

NYPD​Amid the tales of peril and loss still emerging from what's now being dubbed "Bloomberg's Blizzard," there is this from the Post about a troop of intrepid jewel thieves who made the most of the build-up to nature's calamity by sacking a Chelsea diamond store on Christmas Day. The Post's J ... More >>

BREAKING THE LAW

A writer turns to crime

'Busy Chef' Dan Kaufman Now in Trouble With Local Sex Blogger

Dan Kaufman, alleged lousy boyfriend.​The last time Dan Kaufman was in the news, it was thanks thanks to charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property stemming from his alleged theft of a friend's credit card. That, of course, was after Kaufman made local headlines tha ... More >>

Is Crime Increasing Because NYPD Has Stopped Fudging Stats?

​The influential crime reporter Murray Weiss, ex-chief of the New York Post police bureau, is weighing in on the questions being raised about the extent of manipulating crime statistics by NYPD commanders. In a column for the website, DNAInfo.com, Weiss reports that Police Commissioner Ray Ke ... More >>

Suspect in Latest West Village Gay Attacks Was on Parole

​Following the latest in a string of gay "bias attacks," police have arrested a 45-year-old Queens man for attacking two men in the West Village Friday night, including a bartender at what authorities called the city's oldest gay bar, Julius. The suspect was already on parole for a separate, s ... More >>

Voice's NYPD Tapes to Get a Hearing by FBI Officials

By Michael Cohen ​FBI officials will hear excerpts from the recordings of police bosses' harangues at street cops to manipulate crime stats, revealed in the Voice's NYPD Tapes series, when two criminologists present their research at a crime data conference at John Jay College later today. P ... More >>

Motorized Wheelchair-Thief on the Loose in NYC

The suspect​Of all the things you have to worry about! Now it's heading over to your favorite spot for a nice, quiet steak dinner, parking your wheels outside, savoring your delicious meal, and finally, returning outside to find your transport disappeared. Such is the case for a recent 68-year ... More >>

Quotas and Victim Intimidation? Of Course, Says Another NYPD Veteran

​Marquez Claxton spent 20 years as a police officer and a detective in the NYPD, most recently in Williamsburg's 90th Precinct. He retired as a detective second grade. He worked in narcotics as an undercover, in vice, in domestic violence, and was involved in the investigation of thousands of ... More >>

"Cake Mixx" Exhibit Posits that Baked Goods Can Predict the Future of Your Relationship

Dustin Wayne Harris/Heist GalleryIt didn't end well.​ While at least one-quarter of Fork in the Road is well-versed in the art of cake eating, cake reading has been, until now, a completely foreign concept. Thanks to the Heist Gallery, that is about to change: Beginning tonight at 6 p.m., the ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Looks Like Crime Rate Will Drop Again This Year; Murders, Too

​With the year coming to a close, the citywide crime rate as of Dec. 13 looks like it will drop by about 10 percent, with overall drops in every major crime except assault which rose by 2 percent. With 440 murders so far this year, there likely will be fewer than 500 homicides for the year. T ... More >>

Crime Beat: Precinct of the Week -- Rugby-Remsen Village! (Plus a Comparison With Williamsburg)

See the crime reports compiled by EveryBlock.com Congratulations to the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn, our Precinct of the Week. No offense to the good people and good cops there in the heart of Brooklyn and including the Rugby-Remsen Village neighborhood, but there was actually plenty of offense durin ... More >>

Crime is down (Times), But it's bloody in Staten Island (News)

​There are dramatically dueling macro and micro takes on the state of crime in the city this morning. The big picture, of course, comes from the Times which reports that, despite growing local poverty and economic woes, crime stats are still trending lower. "Murder, considered the bellwether ... More >>

Breaking: H&H Bagels Owner Indicted for Stealing Withholding Taxes and Unemployment Insurance Tax Evasion

Ty Hewitt/New York Magazine​Earlier this afternoon, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced the arrest and indictment of Helmer Toro, the owner of H&H Bagels, for stealing withholding taxes and evading unemployment insurance tax in connection with his wholesale and retail busin ... More >>

The Unholy Three

The NYPD Ignores Leap Day Crimes to Keep Stats Low

CompStat might not count a February 29th murder, but the neighborhood does

Oh, The Humanity of a Heist

Noir screenwriter makes strong directorial debut; Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven theft thriller

'Little Man'

Something's Missing

Crime-stat revelation: 'Lost property' reports mysteriously soar

Close-Up on Bedford-Stuyvesant

The Flirty Dozen

We know what they did last summer: Paid vacation makes for surprisingly snazzy sequel

Film

Close-Up on Jamaica

This charming man: From Eurotrash to aristocrats

Double Dutch in a War Zone

On Ghetto Streets, It's Bloodshed and Tears All Over Again

False Grooves

Tribes and Tribulations

Close-Up on Yorkville

Close-Up On: Bedford-Stuyvesant

Lost in the House of Games

Hey! They're Workin' Here!