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Police late Thursday were undertaking a frantic search for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her own apartment, in a Lower East Side public housing development.
The Baruch Houses attack was the third in a violent day that started when the suspect attempted to rape a woman on James Street, police said.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A 16-year-old boy is dead, after being shot Friday night on the Lower East Side. Around 9:10 p.m. Friday, police responded to the intersection of Rivington and Columbia ...
Grant Ellis returned to see how the Baruch Houses public housing residents who'd stayed behind had fared.
Jasmin Sanchez lives inside the Baruch Houses and says she has been asking for repairs for months. Sanchez says holes in her wall are allowing an invasion of bugs into her home. “Its one thing ...
Police are searching for a man who raped or tried to rape, and then rob, three different women in their apartment buildings on the Lower East Side within three hours Thursday morning.
(The Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side are worth even more — $111 million, enabling tenant buyouts of a staggering $564,000 each.) ...
Albert Guzman surveys the hallway as water and sewage backed up into 60 Columbia Street, in the NYCHA Baruch Houses on June 23, 2019.