Results tagged “bodega”

A gunman in a white Cadillac Escalade opened fire on a Clinton Hill bodega last night, striking a pregnant woman and two men who were standing inside. The perp began shooting at the DeKalb Gourmet Deli near the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Kent Avenue at around 7 pm, hitting a 15-year-old boy in the arm and torso, a 20-year-old man in the leg, and a pregnant 24-year-old in the upper thigh.

While there's still no word on just who was lucky enough to pick up the winning ticket to Friday night's $333 million Mega Millions jackpot in the Bronx (one of two winning tickets), lottery officials did reveal just where it was printed. Fordham Grocery and Convenience Store on Fordham Road will receive a $10,000 prize for selling to the winner, but the only detail they know is that it was a Quick Pick ticket. Store owner Michael Patel said that he sold over 2,000 tickets in the days leading up to the drawing and had his suspicions that the lucky winner may have been a man who bought 200 tickets Friday night. Maybe he's laying low just as MTA worker Aubrey Bryce did for three weeks when he won Mega Millions last month. Patel and his son Bhavesh posed posed for the News with a handwritten sign reading "Winner!! Mega Million Jackpot $166 million here!!" (Take some pride, fellas—round UP.) One local who shops at the store told NY1, "I'm really, really happy. It happened right here at my spot on my block where I play all the time. It could have been me, so God bless them. I won $10, so I'm grateful."

A little tidbit about our favorite teacher ass-tapping, teen model turned bodega robber, Joshua Walter. Now even though the 20-year-old runway model has confessed to holding up a number stores since June, the Post says he "was soon blubbering like a baby that he was afraid of what might happen to him behind bars," according to police sources. Well, if inmates at Rikers knew enough about alleged Starbucks bomber and Fight Club fan Kyle Shaw to punch Shaw in the face, we can—thanks to Oz—imagine what will happen to Walter. The Post adds that Walter's romance with his 17-years-his-senior girlfriend, Gina Salamino, "fizzled" but the Daily News suggested they were still living together. The News also reports today that he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for beating her up in May! Anyway, Walter and his accomplices are awaiting arraignment.

Obama-mania is still sweeping the city, and while all those Obama Fried Chicken joints were faced with protesters, less, um, controversially-named establishments could stand a shot (Obama coffee and Meal O'Bama seem to be avoiding much trouble). Clinton Hill Blog reports on the latest "tribute" to the President: a 24-hour deli opening on Myrtle between Vanderbilt and Clinton called Obama Deli and Grocery. Okay, so when are all the Michael Jackson-inspired places opening? Jacko's Lanterns, Jackson 5 Brothers Burgers, Bubbles Hot Tubs, King of Poppyseed Bagels, Pizza in the Mirror... a little help in the comments!

East New York bodega clerk Salah Ahmed could face 25 years in prison for hitting Bunkless Bovian (who was 14 at the time) in the head with a hammer during a fight in his store last April. But Monday's testimony from Bovian's 16-year-old friend Joshua Bloomfield may bolster Ahmed's self-defense plea, because the teen admitted to helping spark the melee that left his friend in a coma.

This morning we received an email regarding another machete incident in South Williamsburg. The tipster wrote: "I witnessed a young man in handcuffs being pulled out the bodega near the corner of South 4th and Bedford at about 9:45 last night, the bodega next to Papa Lima sandwich shop. After he was placed into a police van, a police officer walked out of the bodega holding a machete.

Last week, a bodega owner and his teenaged son were killed during a robbery attempt at their Crown Heights store. Now police say that a paroled rapist is in custody in connection with the murders, thanks to a tip from CrimeStoppers. The Daily News reports, "Charles Judd, who did 15 years for sexually attacking two 12-year-old girls, told his mother he was carrying a toy gun." A police source further explained, "Judd let some family members know what happened, but claimed he only robbed them, didn't shoot anyone and used a fake gun." It's believed that two men were involved in the fatal robbery: A bodega employee who survived by playing dead said that the robbers had forced him, owner Mohammed Mansoor Abuzaid, Abuzaid's son Abdul, and a customer into a basement; the Abuzaids fought back and were shot. Police are looking for the other suspect.

Police are searching for two suspects in a robbery that turned deadly in Crown Heights on Wednesday night. The Utica Deli's owner Mohammed Mansoor Abuzaid, 50, and his son Abdul, 18, were killed in the basement of the store.

Police are searching for suspects who robbed and then killed a bodega owner and his 18-year-old son last night around 9:30 p.m. WABC 7 reports that Mohammed Mansoor Abuzaid, 50, who operated the Utica Deli & Grocery (309 Utica Boulevard), and his 18-year-old son Abdul had tried to fight back but were ultimately "forced...to the basement, robbed" and then shot—the father in the head, the son in the chest. An investigator told the Daily News, "It was a robbery gone bad. They shot them both, emptied the cash register and ran." Another worker was pistol-whipped; police are reviewing surveillance video.

This photo was taken last night, January 13th, which can only mean one thing: Sparks is still alive! Not too long ago we shed some unnatural orange-tinted tears over the drink, which MillerCoors allegedly stopped production of and was to pull from the shelves by January 10th.

File under: inevitable. A couple of "enterprising hipsters in Brooklyn" have launched the latest in late night delivery services, called HyperBodega. The NY Times reports on Abe Jellinek and Keron Richardson's venture, which offers 7 day/week delivery, from 10 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. They'll bring "beer, cigarettes, condoms, plantain chips, cat food and other such items directly to doorsteps in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick." When an order comes in one of the men runs out to a bodega, picks up the goods and delivers them—charging a fee based on what is ordered. Jellinek tells the Times, “I’m not going to get rich quickly; maybe it will lose money. We’ll see what happens.” Currently making about a 20% profit on every order (plus tips—Richardson says “People find it so absurd that they tip a lot”), he says that number will likely go up, and notes that he does "capitalize on the laziness of people.”

A reader emailed us: "I was walking down Washington Avenue...this morning at around 9:30 (a well-populated area not far from Prospect Park) and was stopped by a shooting about a half a block ahead of me, on the corner of St. John's and Washington. The shooter was a young guy who ran out of a bodega, shot a young man in the leg three times then ran north on Washington. The victim got up after a few minutes to go inside and presumably call the police. There was a crowd of about 15 people assembled and watching... Terrible way to start the day." The shooting was at St. Johns Place and Washington Avenue (see Gothamist Newsmap for location).

Yesterday morning, at the Rockaway Deli & Grocery in Queens, a customer apparently lost it and stabbed two employees. According to WABC 7, Ortho Arnold is seen on a surveillance tape getting his change and then spitting in the cashier's face: "As other nervous customers start leaving the store, Arnold pulls the knife." The victims, the owner's son and cousin, were able to fight him off with broomsticks. The owner said Arnold is a regular customer, "He's a little crazy. I mean, he does sometimes some things that are not normal." Arnold, who faces assault charges, claimed the blood from the victims was his own and that he acted in self-defense.

The owner of Munchies Bodega in Brownsville Brooklyn, Salah Ahmad, was indicted by a grand jury on assault and other charges for bludgeoning teenager Bunkless Bovian with a hammer. Bovian was placed in a medically induced coma following the incident last month, but has since been released from Brookdale University Hospital.

A Brooklyn teen was bludgeoned last night by a bodega owner who accused him of stealing from his East New York Ave. store. The 15-year-old, Bunkless Bovian, got into a confrontation that turned physical with Ahmed Solaf, the store's owner, after he was accused of shoplifting. As the two fought, Solaf picked up a hammer and struck the teen in the skull.

A series of bodega robberies in the Bronx has police anxious to arrest the perpetrators. Yesterday, cops released surveillance footage from a Sunday robbery on St. Ann's Avenue, hoping the public will be able to identify the men in the video. Police believe the same robbers hit a store last night and shot a man in the face and torso. According to WNBC, the video shows a robber rushing behind the counter, pointing a gun...

While the police don't recommend that store owners lash out at armed robbers, but that didn't stop one East New York bodega owner. WABC 7 reports that when a robber with a gun entered a bodega on Sutter Avenue last night, the workers beat him with a baseball bat.

A little follow-up to the story about the 80-year-old woman who was robbed of tens of thousands of dollars from her Lower East Side apartment. Earlier this month, Connie Nieves had let in two men posing as flower deliverymen (note to self: Delivery men rarely work in pairs when they only have one dozen roses), who then tied her up and ransacked her apartment of the cash. Nieves said, "How can I not open the...

A Queens bodega owner defended his store against a gun-wielding robber by way of a machete. Johan Marte, who owns the Erick Deli Grocery in Woodhaven, explained to the Post, "He had a gun and I took him out." The would-be robber, 28-year-old Omar Rodriguez, had fired twice before asking for money, but Marte managed to chop off the gunman's ear and finger. The Daily News has a photo of the robber that shows crime...

The two detectives who were shot during an early morning Bronx shootout yesterday managed to avoid serious injuries and the NYPD says it's a near miracle. Detectives Daniel Rivera and William Gonzalez, along with other three other cops, were trying to serve a warrant to a suspect in a bodega shooting when the suspect fired at them five times. Rivera's forehead was grazed and he left the hospital with only a scar - and smiles. Gonzalez was "nicked in the left shin."

Two veteran detectives, Daniel Rivera and William Gonzalez (both 41 years old), were grazed by gunfire early this morning. One detective was wounded in the forehead and the other in the leg, during a shootout in the East Tremont section of the Bronx at Webster Ave. and 188th St. around 5:30 a.m. The two cops were in the process of serving an arrest warrant to 20-year-old Jermaine Taylor for questioning related to a Bronx bodega shooting. In the course of serving that warrant, gunfire was exchanged, the detectives were grazed, and Taylor was seriously wounded.

Are the munchies a side effect of cocaine abuse? The NYPD busted a multi-million dollar drug ring where buyers could buy their cocaine and deli meats. The police found 4.5 kilograms of cocaine ($175,000 worth) and arrested 25 suspects.

Meow! The Post reports that a Long Island man is suing a West Village bodega Andy's Deli at Seventh and Grove Street because the bodega's cat attacked him - and wants $5 million. However, Andy's Deli owner Andy Singh says he doesn't even own a cat. Dunh dunh DUNH!

A 12-year-old girl, who was with her 5-year-old brother, was struck by a bullet on St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights. The Post reports that the bullet "exited her body" on the left side. The girl was not badly hurt and even managed to react calmly by heading to a bodega for safety.

The NYPD revealed that they have arrested four members of the Crips gang who robbed four bodegas in Queens in just three hours on Sunday. Queens DA Richard Brown says that the four, Gregory Burrowes, Jeremy Edwards, Keon Gill, and Ryan Carter would target mom-and-pop stores, with only bandannas covering their faces. They "walked down the street robbing one bodega only minutes after having robbed another."

On Gothamist Contribute, someone wrote about an incident that occurred at 6th Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan:

I went running at 5:15 and there were cops and detectives all over the corner by Ansonia pharmacy. The whole area was taped off. I asked a bodega owner and he said a guy jumped from a building. When the pharmacy opened I went in and asked and she said she thought it was a hit and run. She said detectives came in this morning and asked if they had cameras outside of the bldg. and told her a body was found outside.

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Yesterday afternoon, three people were injured when a gunman fired in a bodega near a public school in the Bronx. According to witnesses, the shooter chased two men from a nearby housing project into the Sun Shine Deli at West 166th and Summit Avenue. John Gregg told the Post he "walked up to the door and started shooting...Then he backed out and went around the corner. No words."

Police are wondering if two recent, consecutive bodega robberies in Queens were committed by the same robbers whose June crime spree left a bodega owner dead. The Post reports that two Monday night robberies have similar M.O.s to and seem to match descriptions in seventeen other robberies this year: The thieves hit a bodega, threatening employees and customers with guns, demanding cash, and after robbing the store, they head to another one.

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The Office of Emergency Management would like to remind you that for the next three days, New York City will be grosser than usual, with the heat index tipping 90 every day. But the professionals at OEM are on the case with such well-researched tips as,"Wear loose-fitting, light-colored clothing" and "Use an air conditioner if you have one." What would we do without our City government?