Yesterday, the funeral was held for Michael DiMaria, the Hicksville resident who was killed while two other men were fighting in a Boston bar last week. A beer glass was thrown at DiMaria's group and shattered—one of the shards punctured his jugular vein. Newsday reports, "So many people packed the pews of the Holy Family Church.. that even the overflow chairs weren't enough to accommodate the crowd." The 23-year-old had just started a job on Wall Street, and Rev. Gerald Gentleman said, "We have justified anger at this senseless act, which was not an accident but an awful choice." The man who threw the glass was charged with manslaughter and is being held on $75,000 bail and the pub has stopped using glass vessels for the time being. more ›

Five arrests have been made in connection with Saturday night's bar brawl at The Kettle Black in Bay Ridge. Officers believe John DeCarlo, who is either 22 or 26, initiated the melee between an off-duty NYPD officer and a group of other bar patrons by smashing a bottle over the officer's head. He has been charged with charged with assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. more ›

An off-duty NYPD officer allegedly got into a bar fight in Bay Ridge early Saturday morning, causing injuries to a Port Authority officer and a firefighter. The fight started around 3 a.m. at The Kettle Black when the NYPD officer got into an argument with a group of five men, who then jumped him and smashed a bottle over his head. "I saw one man grab a bottle and started yelling, 'Come on, come on, a—hole and stabbed the other guy with the bottle,'" one man told the Daily News. "It looked like a war broke out right on the streets of Bay Ridge." more ›

An off-duty New York City cop shot a knife-wielding man Thursday night after a bar brawl that started in the Strong Island watering-hole Napper Tandy's and spilled out into the street. John Gomez, 27, was one of the many witnesses in the crowded bar at 12:30 a.m. when two men began fighting in the front foyer. more ›

Andrew Reister, a Long Island corrections officer who worked a second job as a Southampton Bouncer, died yesterday after he had been choked out by a customer earlier in the week. Reister was allegedly choked out for over a minute by Anthony Oddone (pictured) after the two got into a scuffle after Reister told him to stop dancing on a table. Oddone, a college golfer and country-club caddie, has been charged with first degree assault for the time being. "How ironic it's another golfer who took him out," the victim's wife Stacy Reister lamented. Oddone will appear in court on Tuesday. more ›