It's dangerous enough for deliverymen today with all those teens out there mindlessly driving and texting and hitting them. But pizza deliveryman Victor Mejia de los Santos faced an even scarier experience yesterday, when he was almost beaten to death after being set up and jumped by would-be pizza purchasers. more ›

A gang of five trailed a pair of off-duty cops in Washington Heights around midnight last night and jumped them in an attempted robbery that did not go well. Things went sideways for the assailants almost immediately when one of them initiated the attack by picking up a wooden folding chair from the trash and hitting one of the officers on the back of the head with it. more ›