Last month the acerbic Stuy Town blog Luxe Living—which previously chronicled hallway defecation and other abominations that have befallen the development since it fell into the maladroit hands of real estate giant Tishman Speyer—scared some Stuy Townies. In a post criticizing parents for letting their children raucously play outside on a Saturday morning, Luxe Living published an e-mail from a resident complaining about "two little velociraptors having at each other while their parents, both of whom are with them, do nothing. Parents, nobody likes your kids. THEY ARE ONLY CUTE TO YOU. Keep them indoors, tied up, gagged, drugged, WHATEVER, and stop letting them loose at 8AM on Saturday mornings." As illustration, the post featured an image of a crying child in a rifle scope's crosshairs. more ›

In 2006, a man was fatally shot and many others were injured when a sniper fired in various Queens neighborhoods over an eight hour time period. The sniper turned out to be bricklayer Matthew Colletta, who had targeted red cars and people wearing red clothing. Yesterday, Colletta was convicted of the murder of Todd Upton as well as the attempted murder of 12 other people. Upton's wife Mary said, "It's been a long four years, and we're glad justice was done. You don't hate him [Coletta]. You have to let go, but you understand that there has to be a price to be paid." more ›

Police reportedly had a tough time tracking down suspects in the fatal shooting of bread deliveryman Jorge Martinez because there was a lack of officers available to immediately check out the scene. Many officers in the Gravesend area on the night of the shooting had been assigned to patrol events leading up to the West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day, and a few were investigating a shooting on Avenue K in Canarsie that had taken place a half an hour before. The two events left few unavailable to investigate the rooftop shooting. Is this that consequence of the budget cuts everyone was warning us about? more ›

Police believe the rooftop shooter responsible for sending a bullet through bread deliveryman Jorge Martinez's head on Saturday night may not have been working alone. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters police have determined "that three guns were used." Police found 22 shell casings on nearby rooftops, all of which came from 9-mm. handguns. more ›

Jorge Martinez, the bread deliveryman fatally shot by a rooftop gunman in Gravesend Saturday night, always wanted to be buried in his home country of Ecuador. And now, his family is trying to scrape together the funds to send his body there. His 16-year-old daughter Jenniffer Martinez told the Daily News, "My dad wanted to be buried in Ecuador next to his father. His mom, sister, aunts, cousins—his entire family is there...That's what he wanted. We want to bury him in peace." more ›

Police are still on the hunt for the man who fatally shot a bread deliveryman in Gravesend on Saturday night. Based on the trajectory of the bullets fired into Jorge Martinez's van (one struck him in the head), it's suspected that the gunman was aiming from a rooftop. Now a police source tells the Post, "He must've been testing out his gun. He fired a few times at a parked car and then fired at a moving vehicle, thinking he'd scare the driver. more ›

Bread deliveryman Jorge Martinez, 39, was struck and killed by a bullet that pierced the roof of his van as he was making his rounds last night. Two rounds entered the car as he drove down Avenue X in Gravesend, with one striking him in the head. Police believe that because of the downward entry angle of the bullets, Martinez may have been the target of a sniper. One official told the Times, "We’re looking for a gunman who fired from a rooftop." more ›

Cops are still searching for the individual who shot four teens Wednesday afternoon from a Crown Heights rooftop. And in the aftermath of the shooting—which sent pedestrians running for their lives—many in the neighborhood were gripped with fear over the city's surge in violent crime. But others thought it was funny, like the teens seen laughing after they got shot! more ›

One day after NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly held a press conference in Crown Heights to publicize a sting on local merchants who sold marijuana, three teens were shot in the neighborhood by a rooftop sniper. Police say the gunman opened fire around 3:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, raining bullets down on Franklin Avenue near the intersection with President Street. The gunfire sent pedestrians running for their lives, and two bloody teens crashing into an accountant's office. "The first thing I thought was that the shooter was following them," accountant John Sesay tells the Daily News. more ›

"Everybody here is scared now," downtown bodega worker Primo Dlmn from Morocco tells the Times. "I’m as nervous as I can be, but I’ve got to go to the store. Life goes on." Or does it? A sniper with a high-power BB gun has been terrorizing Avenue D between Third and Fourth Streets during the past week, lodging pellets in a construction worker's skull, shattering car windows, and wounding six others. Now the NYPD says there have been other BB gun shootings in the area, and it looks like there may be some sort of teen pellet gun gang. How street is that? Local mailman James Heckstall says, 'It used to be terrible around here, the Wild West...The neighborhood is getting nicer and nicer. Then, every once in a while, something like this happens, and it makes us look bad." And then someone shoots their eye out. more ›

Some warped punk with a BB gun has been firing at people near the corner of Avenue D and East Third Street during the past week; at least eight people have been shot, and several car windows have been blown out by the sniper. Construction worker Edward Gilyard was shot on Friday, and doctors found two pellets lodged next to his skull. He was at his job site when he felt a sharp pain on his right temple, and tells the Daily News, "I put my hand up there and felt the blood... All of a sudden, I had a little hole in my head." more ›

The Gothamist Newsmap noted a report of a "possible armed man" around 1 p.m. at King and Varick Streets in downtown Manhattan. Various readers tell us that the police are swarming the area over reports of a "pissed off sniper." We heard that one, perhaps two people were on a roof, possibly with a rifle, hence the NYPD helicopters. more ›