Attorney Javier Solano, in his final jury address Friday, insisted there was a “piece that didn’t fit” in the prosecution’s presentation against murder suspect Andres Fernandez in the June 30, 2016, shooting of Louis Barbati.

A driver abandoned his wrecked vehicle and left one of his passengers to die after a drunken off-duty cop in a muscle car t-boned his vehicle in Brooklyn early Sunday, police said. NYPD Officer Rohan Shaw was driving a white 2019 Nissan GT-R, zooming east on Foster Ave. just before 5 a.m., when a black 2016 Mazda 6 rolled through a stop sign on E. 55th St. and right into the cop’s path, police said.

Instead of waking up to wish his daughter the best on her 23rd birthday, Collin Dixon got the phone call every parent dreads.

The survey of more than 700 people in Sen. Andrew Gounardes’ district — which stretches from Bay Ridge to Manhattan Beach — found that half of those who take the subway to work need to transfer at least once during their commutes.

Cops are looking into the possibility a man who stalked through a Brooklyn home with a knife may have trespassed through another nearby location the night before.

Yousef Selassie, 19, pleaded not guilty to first-degree grand larceny, identity theft and other charges at his Manhattan Supreme Court appearance for the lucrative scheme that operated from January through May this past year.

An angry man broke a glass door at Junior’s restaurant in Brooklyn before fleeing in a BMW, police said Wednesday.

The victim, identified in court papers as “Jane Roe” and now middle-aged, alleges tennis coach William Martire verbally assaulted, groped and forced her give him oral sex.

The Friday morning deaths capped off a deadly three days across the city.

Two men accused of violent crimes were freed without bail from Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday amid growing concern about the state's new bail reform laws.

Garcia Luna, accused of turning a blind eye toward murderous drug overlord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman while serving as Mexico’s secretary of public security from 2006-12, arrived in Brooklyn Federal Court with his attorney for a Friday afternoon hearing.

Sometime after 911 was called, the 63-year-old victim — whose name has not been released — went into his bedroom to put out the fire. He soon passed out amid the smoke and flames, officials said. Responding firefighters and EMTs pulled him out of the apartment. "He was badly burned," said a neighbor.

A 14-second video captured the unsettling scene inside St. Anthony of Padua Church in Greenpoint as the Rev. Jossy Vattothu presided over the 9:30 a.m. Mass, with the man strolling casually inside the house of worship with a container of juice in his right hand.

The defendants were linked in a 15-page Manhattan court filing with a cornucopia of crimes committed between 2010-19, from murder to robbery, wire fraud to kidnapping, and drug dealing to identity theft.

Aaron Weinreb, a 48-year-old OB-GYN, has been in home detention on $1.5 million bail since his arrest in October on charges he used the gay dating app Grindr to connect with an underage boy for sex.Because they’ve found a second victim, prosecutors wantED Weinreb jailed while he awaits trial.

Shirr Teved was inside her home near Foster Ave. in Flatbush when a fire broke out about 10:30 p.m. Monday.

A Brooklyn woman was slashed in the face with a knife by an enraged passenger after her child threw up on a city bus.

The last suspect in the grisly gang-related Brooklyn murders of two men whose bodies were burned after they were tortured and killed pleaded guilty Friday.

Rubin, now a genteel 72-year-old Staten Island resident, alleges in a newly-filed Child Victims Act lawsuit that he was sexually abused on a weekly basis between 1960-65 by a cabal of five predatory teachers at the prestigious school.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials on Thursday announced plans to reopen a long-closed pair of entrances to the Nostrand Ave. station on the A and C lines by the end of 2020 — some 30 years after they were closed due to security concerns.

Police said the crook crept up behind the 38-year-old victim on Wilson Ave. near Dekalb Ave. in Bushwick about 7 a.m. Tuesday and shoved her to the ground.

Judge Jack Weinstein on Monday moved to inactive status, closing out a 53-year career. A highlight of his law career was working with Thurgood Marshall on the legal arguments that led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in Brown v. Board of Education that school segregation was illegal. He was named a federal judge in 1967, and on his retirement was the last appointee of President Lyndon Johnson still on the bench.

Marvina Robinson was inspired to create Stuyvesant Champagne, named after Bedford-Stuyvesant where she grew up, while drawing up plans for a champagne bar set to launch in the neighborhood later this year.

The plaintiff, a former high school cheerleader identified only by the pseudonym “Mary Coe,” was in her first year at the school when defendant William Martire allegedly initially forced her to perform oral sex on him in the early 1980s, according to a horrifying 18-page Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.

Ulises Rivera, 32, had stitches above his right eye and a blood-soaked sheet wrapped around his right leg at Elmhurst Hospital — but otherwise seemed in healthy condition.

Christian Pacheco, 42, was wrongly convicted in the racially-motivated Latin Kings killing of Lemuel Cruz, who died in December 1995 at a Brooklyn club called El Sabor Latino. Pacheco was nabbed by cops as he was trying to save Cruz's life. “I don’t regret helping him — honestly, I don’t. That’s the kind of person that I am," Pacheco told reporters Thursday.

Mamadou Bah, 19, an immigrant from Senegal who dreamt of playing pro basketball, died after he stumbled into Gentlemen’s Quarters Salon on Church Ave. near Ocean Ave. in Flatbush just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The 8:15 a.m. crash at Pennsylvania and Blake Aves. in East New York happened just paces from three neighborhood schools and about two miles from where a 10-year-old girl was fatally struck by a school bus Tuesday, officials said.

Folks in the neighborhood where the 7-year-old was struck and killed 24 hours earlier couldn’t help but notice the new arrivals Friday: Two guards positioned at the intersection near a homemade memorial honoring the lost and lovable child.

The teen victim was chased to the corner of Utica Ave. and Sterling Place around 4:10 p.m. Thursday before being knocked to the ground. Video then shows a horde of teens descending upon her.

Emmanuelle Cooper, 54, spent 27 years in prison for the 1992 murder of MTA employee Andres Barretto, who was fatally shot in an East New York subway station after two men forced their way into a booth and robbed the token clerks inside.

Mervyn Affoon, who taught at the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at hospitality at Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush, is accused of sexually abusing the teen about 15 times between March 2017 and June 2017.

More than 200 mourners filed into the Love Fellowship Tabernacle church in East New York Thursday night for Payson Lott’s wake and funeral. The youngster was struck and killed by an unlicensed driver as he crossed a street in his neighborhood.

The murder may have happened outside the city.

The diocese made the dramatic announcement after confirming positive coronavirus tests for two priests: One at a church in Queens, the other at a church in Brooklyn.

A transgender woman awaiting trial on charges that she swindled elderly women out of their savings was raped repeatedly in jail after she was housed against her will with rowdy male inmates, according to a new lawsuit.

Patient Jessica Ellision recalled how she broke down and sobbed Monday when she finally received her medication after a three-hour wait — much of it in the crowded hallway where she feared the other patients might be infected. “It was so intense and so stressful, and you feel like you worked so hard not to be sick, but this is it now — this is how it happens,” said Ellison, 39, of the Bronx.

Rona Phillips, the principal of KAPPA V High School in Brownsville, is in intensive care with pneumonia, officials said. “Our thoughts are with Principal Phillips and her family for a speedy recovery, and we’ll support the school community in every way we can,” said Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot.

City officials called the street closings planned starting Friday are an “initial pilot,” and that more sites may be added to the program in the coming days. De Blasio said on Tuesday he’d like to open “up to two streets per borough.”

The beloved 49-year-old priest, born in Mexico City, passed away Friday evening at the Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, the diocese said. Father Jorge, as he was known to worshippers, served as the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans among his other duties.

Two Brooklyn nail salon workers who pummeled a customer with brooms in a viral video had assault charges against them dismissed at trial – and a defense attorney says they were victims of a mob mentality fueled by elected officials.

Disturbing videos posted online paint a grim picture on how hospitals seem to be struggling to deal with bodies as they battle against the wave of coronavirus patients.

A Brooklyn federal magistrate denied Genaro Garcia Luna release from prison due to coronavirus, saying he was a flight risk.

Hospital police initially issued Lundy a disorderly conduct summons after the attack and released her. On Thursday NYPD cops arrested her for manslaughter and assault.

Runners are using their legs for deliveries now.

Suspect Donte West, 28, broke into a side door of the shoe store on Pitkin Ave. near Bristol St. in Brownsville about 8:45 a.m. Saturday and loaded up a Chevy Trailblazer with more than three dozen pairs of sneakers and nearly 40 baseball caps as cops arrived, police said.

A 39-year-old man was shot in the stomach on Rockaway Parkway near Winthrop St. in Brownsville around 3:20 a.m., according to authorities. Three other men, in their 30s and 40s, were shot in the legs.

A pair of crooks smashed their way into a grocery store in Brooklyn and stole the deli’s cash register along with three dozen Red Bulls, cops said.

Wilfredo Cervantes, 52, an artist and poet from Puerto Rico, was found dead inside his second-floor apartment on Jefferson Ave. near Ralph Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday evening.

Inmates were coughing and sneezing, and guards wore no personal protective equipment, said Hassan Chunn, 46, who fears the disease is spreading through the Metropolitan Detention Center.