A deal with an undercover operative quickly turned deadly yesterday for a man looking to sell a hand grenade in the Bronx. Federal agents and an NYPD detective were monitoring a conversation being held in a car yesterday between the grenade seller and operative. It was not expected the seller would have the grenade on him at the time, so when he produced it, agents rushed the scene in the interest of public safety. The......

The FBI has announced that NYC was the safest big city for 2005. If this sounds familiar, it's because NYC has pretty much been the safest for a couple years, and in fact announced the 2005 stats earlier this year. But the FBI has finally issued the full report, Crime in the U.S., and it's very detailed - you can see the breakouts of crime by age, felony type, and even what weapon was......

Last night, two children were shot in two different incidents in the Mott Haven area of the Bronx. First, a 13 year old was shot in the leg yesterday afternoon while he was outside MS 220 on Brook Avenue; police think his shooter was aiming for someone else. Then around 7:30PM, a 10 year old girl was also hit in the leg while she was playing outside, and she was caught in the crossfire of......

Proving that some subway stations are in a sad, vicious circle of getting worse and worse every year, the NY Daily News selected ten subway stations, with the help of readers, the NYC Transit Riders Council and the Straphangers, that are awful. Bad stations seem to be ones less frequented (five stations in the Bronx, two on the G, and the lone Manhattan station being the J, M, Z station on Bowery) and in poor......

In another story about the lengths people will go to for their cellphones. In the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, a man climbed down the building shaft to retrieve his cellphone. When he got the phone, he started to climb back up, but then fell four stories. He had to be rescued by the fire department, who repelled teams down with a stretcher to strap the man in. The man suffered broken bones and......