Washington Heights

A sommelier at an upscale New York City restaurant run by a world renown chef was shot and killed outside a Manhattan deli, according to police, and three teens have been charged in his murder.

Family members said that 77-year-old Maria Soledad Taveras and her 74-year-old husband Luciano Taveras lived in their Washington Heights apartment for decades, but they couldn’t get out when a fire broke out Tuesday morning. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Two people died when a fire engulfed a six-story apartment building in Manhattan early Tuesday, authorities say. Firefighters responded to the building on 178th Street in Washington Heights after getting a call about a three-alarm fire shortly before 2 a.m. They found the fire on the sixth floor. It had also spread to the floor below. A 77-year-old woman, later...

Two people died when a fire engulfed a Washington Heights building early Tuesday. Romney Smith reports.

Law enforcement sources told NBC New York the stabbing was the result of a dispute.

NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Law enforcement sources told NBC New York the stabbing was the result of a dispute.

The NYPD is looking for four males seen running from a Manhattan coffee shop where all-out chaos erupted after a group chased someone inside and stabbed him, authorities say. Surveillance cameras captured the chain of events, starting with a shirtless man stumbling into Milo Coffee Shop on Amsterdam Avenue around 6 p.m. Tuesday, and heading toward the back. Someone appearing…

Chaos erupted inside a Washington Heights coffee shop — and workers’ quick actions may have saved someone’s life. Romney Smith reports.

In Washington Heights, NYPD officers were seen jumping in to save a man from the brink. Body camera videos showed them talking the man down from ending his life at the University Heights Bridge. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

A Manhattan toddler has died as a result of injuries sustained in last month’s Washington Heights apartment fire, and his 1-year-old brother, also badly hurt in the blaze, remains in critical condition, police said Wednesday. King Corporan and his little brother were among three young kids in their Audobon Avenue apartment, near West 175th Street, when flames broke out...

A New York City landlord named the worst in the city by the Public Advocate’s office is at Rikers after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns.

A New York City landlord named the worst in the city by the Public Advocate’s office could now be heading to jail, after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns.

A 23-year-old woman has been arrested after police say her three young kids were left alone in a Manhattan apartment when a fire broke out in the building, trapping them in terror, according to officials. Skilyn Maldonado was charged with three counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child in connection with the blaze that drew dozens of…

Five people, including four children, are recovering after an overnight apartment fire in along Audobon Avenue in Washington Heights. A mother is now being questioned in the investigation after police said the children hurt and burned had been left alone in the apartment. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Four children were hurt, two of them critically, in a fast-moving fire that swept through a Washington Heights apartment building overnight, authorities say. Officials said Thursday that the FDNY was called to the building on Audubon Avenue, near West 175th Street, around 11 p.m. the prior evening for a report of a fire. It’s not clear where it broke...

Four children were among those hurt during a fast-moving fire in Washington Heights. Tracie Strahan reports.

A New York City landlord named the worst in the city by the Public Advocate’s office could now be heading to jail, after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns.

Authorities believe the landlord is out of state, but plan to work with law enforcement in California to take the man into custody. News 4’s Lynda Baquero reports.