Police are searching for a man who allegedly hit his three-year-old daughter with a brick in Brick, NJ. Edward Smith, 25, destroyed the child’s mother’s cellphone and stole her car after the Saturday night incident, and has been on the run since. Authorities believe Smith wasn't intentionally trying to hurt the little girl, who lost a tooth and needed stitches for a cut on her upper lip. more ›

The police are looking for a man who allegedly threatened his ex-girlfriend with a meat cleaver, after breaking into her apartment. more ›

A Brooklyn grandmother is in critical condition after she got into a fight with her grandson—and he allegedly hit her with a brick. The 62-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was taken to Kings County Hospital with severe head trauma after the 5:45 p.m. incident with her 19-year-old grandson in Bedford-Stuyvesant. “They started throwing rocks at each other and the grandfather tried to break it up. There was a lot of fighting going on," one neighbor told the News. more ›

You don't often hear stories about mounted NYPD officers defending a police vehicle. Oh sure, there are plenty of stories about guys inadvertently slipping their fingers into horses, and cops shooting at people messing with their cars. But officers on horseback are not normally called upon to protect their mechanical brothers. But one Brooklyn mountie heeded just such a call early this morning. more ›

Astoria property owner Santino DiFiore has a permit to build a six-story "DiFiore Tower" next to his other four-story building, where hairdresser JoAnn McGurty Sullivan, 42, has been living in a rent-controlled apartment off-and-on since childhood. The other tenants on her side the building have all vacated, but she's proving to be the fly in DiFiore's ointment, because doesn't want the landlord to brick in nine out of her ten windows to accommodate the new building. Apparently one window just isn't good enough for Sullivan, who's managed to get the Department of Buildings to issue a stop-work order. She tells the Post, "[DiFiore] took my life, shook it up and threw it on the floor—all for greed." more ›

If you’ve ever watched acting so bad it made you want to shove the performer offstage and play the role yourself, Suspicious Package is for you. The creators of this clever little production have spared themselves the headache of dealing with actors by casting the audience and turning them loose on the streets of Williamsburg. It happens for just four people at a time, and when you buy your ticket online you cast yourself in one of the roles, choosing either the producer, the showgirl, the heiress, or the private detective. more ›