Early yesterday morning, an 18-year-old woman was attacked in the Richmond Hill section of Queens. WABC 7 reports the woman had been walking down a street when an man wielding a gun "took her to the back of a building where she was robbed and sexually assaulted." According to the Daily News, the victim ran back home and "hysterically pointed out her attacker to [her boyfriend] and his friends." The group tried to chase the......

The Girls Gone Wild employee accused of sexually assaulting a woman last week aboard a GGW bus was released; Newsday reports it's "because no indictment was filed within the time limit for a felony charge." Michael O'Sullivan, who did not need to post the $100,000 cash bail, was in Smithtown to film part of the GGW's Wildest Bar video. The Suffolk DA's office said, "After reviewing the facts and circumstances of Mr. O'Sullivan's arrest, the......

Early yesterday morning, a woman stopped a police car in Smithtown, Long Island, claiming she was sexually assaulted on a Girls Gone Wild bus. Police ended up arresting the GGW crew supervisor Matthew O'Sullivan and charging him with first degree sexual assault\. Girls Gone Wild is currently looking for the wildest bars, and the crew had been filming a wet T-shirt contest at Nubar tavern. Apparently O'Sullivan asked a 20-year-old woman at the bar (not......

Footage of a man suspected of following a Canadian tourist into a Chelsea apartment building elevator--and later sexually assaulting and robbing her--was released yesterday. The video shows a man following the victim into the Heywood, on Ninth Avenue at West 26th Street, around 4:30 a.m.; the NY Post describes the attacker as a "slim, bald man wearing a white T-shirt and jeans" carrying flowers and pushing a mountain bike. The attacker managed to choke the......

Yesterday, a Canadian tourist, staying at a friend's apartment at The Heywood on Ninth Ave. and West 26th, was followed into the building and attacked around 4 a.m. The Post reports the suspect "followed her into the apartment and choked her into unconsciousness," and the victim "awoke minutes later to find her clothes partially removed, a small amount of cash, jewelry and a cellphone missing." But the attacker was gone; police tell the Daily News......

A Queens resident was arrested for kidnapping, raping and robbing a woman leaving Lower East Side club The Box last September. The Post reports that Harvey Contento was arrested last week in Midtown (it's unclear how the police tied him to the attack). It's believed Contento pushed the victim into his SUV, drove her across the bridge to Queens, where he raped her; then, after making her withdraw $500 from an ATM, he abandoned her......

Just after 1 a.m., a woman managed to fight off a man who tried to grab her in the Cedar Manor neighborhood. According to WABC 7, the woman "screamed and fought him off before he ran away without harming her." The police have been investigating a series of sexual assaults, at least eight, in southern Queens over the past year. The police say the suspect approaches the victim, with a knife, and forces her into......

This is horrible. A 65-year-old man was arrested for sodomizing a 16-year-old boy yesterday morning on a Bay Ridge Street. Apparently the NYPD narcotics unit was monitoring a surveillance camera when they saw Reham Ali hiding something between two parked cars around Seventh Avenue and 64th Street. The Daily News reports that two officers went to see what was happening and found Ali "holding down and sodomizing" the mentally retarded boy. A police source told......

The police are investigating a sex attack reported by a 16-year-old. The girl was grabbed on her way to school, threatened with a box cutter and assaulted behind an abandoned church, and police are investigating the possibility the attacker may be the same as the one in a series of earlier assaults. And WNBC reports there are two more reports of attacks--another in Springfield Gardens and the other in South Ozone Park.......

An assistant conductor noticed a man attacking a woman yesterday at the Freeport LIRR station, according to Newsday. Passengers thought they heard a child crying and when assistant conductor Eugene Chino lookd at the end of the platform, he saw the assault, which "occurred on the trackbed between the two tracks alongside the cement housing for the platform staircase." The 3:42 p.m. train from Babylon to Penn Station was stopped and the suspect apprehended.......

Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver is up for re-election this fall, and while he's likely to win it, one woman is making sure one of his challengers has her help: The Daily News reports former Assembly staffer is helping challenger Paul Newell with his campaign because Silver "ignored her accusations of rape against one of his top aides" back in 2001. Elizabeth Crothers told the News, "I see it as the only opportunity to bring real......

The man accused of pretending to be a Park Avenue gynecologist apparently had an accomplice. The Daily News reports that, according to sources, Monsey resident Zalman Silber "tricked one woman into undergoing a pelvic exam by saying his friend, the Rockland County police officer, was a doctor who made house calls." Sources also say the cop ended up conducting the exam in Silber's house--with Silber watching. Prosecutors have charged Silber with third-degree sexual abuse and......

A married businessman was arrested for pretending to be a gynecologist and giving exams to young women at a Park Avenue building. Sources tell the Daily News that Zalman Silber of Rockland County was charged with "third-degree sexual abuse and unauthorized practice and professions for impersonating a doctor." Two victims are mentioned in the charges, but the "exams" may have started in 2003, so the authorities are looking for any other victims. One of Silber's......

Police are hoping for tips from the public as they released a sketch of the man suspected of raping a woman in her Prince Street apartment building on early Tuesday morning. The suspect allegedly followed the victim from the subway and asked her for a cigarette; when she went into her building, he followed her upstairs, dragging her into the courtyard and assaulted her. The suspect is described as a black male in his 20s,......

Yesterday, police scoured Soho for clues after a 19-year-old was sexually assaulted in her apartment building on Prince Street near Sullivan. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirmed the victim was followed home from the subway station by the attacker: "She was followed by an individual who asked her for a cigarette. She did give him a cigarette. She went into her residence; he followed her upstairs. He then accosted her, dragged her downstairs, and sexually......

Early this morning, a woman was attacked in the courtyard of her apartment building on Prince Street at Sullivan. Police say the suspect may have followed her from the subway. The incident took place around 3:30 a.m.; according to police, the 19-year-old victim was sexually assaulted after the suspect threatened her with a box cutter. After he fled, police dispatched the K-9 and aviation units to search for the attacker, who is described as, per......

After showing surveillance images of a man who allegedly sexually attacked a woman for hours before robbing her, police have made an arrest. Emerson Deno, 32, was charged with rape, criminal sex act, burglary, robbery and unlawful imprisonment. Deno followed the victim from the West 191st subway station to her apartment near West 190th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around 5 p.m. last Friday. When she got to her apartment and started to unlock her......

The police arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of attacking two women in the West Village earlier this month. The Post reports Anthony Rosado was "picked up" on Friday for the assaults. In the early hours of March 2, a man viciously accosted women in separate incidents on Bleecker Street. In one attack, he threw the victim to the ground, hit her head against the ground and ripped off her pants, while in the other, he......

A woman's accusation of being drugged and sexually assaulted at a Brooklyn nightclub has led local state senator Eric Adams to call for immediate screening for date rape drugs at hospitals when a woman is brought in an incoherent state. The alleged victim, who appeared at a press conference with Adams dressed to shield her identity, said that she was invited by the owner of the Khrome Bar & Lounge on Atlantic and Washington Aves.......

Police are looking for a man suspected of assaulting two women in separate early Sunday morning incidents and released a surveillance video of him. One of the victims said after getting thrown to the ground she got away and called 911 - only for the attacker to try again as she walked on Bleecker Street. She told the Daily News, "I started walking and calling 911 on my cell ... and he attacked me again...I......

The police released a sketch of a man suspected of attacking two women early Sunday in the West Village. In both incidents, the women were exiting cabs when he attacked. Around 2:15 a.m., a 30-year-old woman got out of her cab at 240 Bleecker Street, near Our Lady of Pompeii school. According to the Post, the "hooded thug lunged from behind, threw her to the ground and smashed her head on the ground." Though the......

A 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and robbed while waiting for a bus at busy Richmond Hill Road at 7:30PM. The bus stop, between Vassar and Merry Mount Streets, is, as the Staten Island Advances points out, just a "quarter-mile from both the Staten Island Mall and the 122nd Precinct satellite police station." The victim was grabbed from behind and taken through an open gate into a home's backyard. There, the attacker, claiming he had......

The police released a sketch of a man suspected of raping a teenage girl in Queens and asked for the public's help in identifying him. According to police, the suspect saw a 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend who were kissing in a car at 137th Avenue and 155th Street, near Baisley Pond Park, around 12:30AM Saturday. Claiming he was a cop (he flashed a badge), the man told the boyfriend to leave and said he'd......

The Post is reporting about a disturbing crime: A woman who took a cab from the Lower East Side back home to Brooklyn says the yellow cab driver assaulted her. The victim, a 38-year-old real estate agent who lives in Park Slope, left a lounge at Rivington and Bowery around 4AM (the lounge's bouncer helped her hail the cab). The driver apparently asked her repeatedly to sit in the front passenger seat, which she declined.......

Midtown Sunset, by djwerdna at flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on 31st St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan, an attempted sexual assault at Broadway and Gates Ave. in Brooklyn, and an aircraft incident at Laguardia in Queens. The Yankees Double-A farm team in Trenton has a mascot named Chase, who catches frisbees, brings water to umpires, and serves as a canine batboy. In his off hours, he managed to knock......

Last weekend, a young woman was celebrating her 19th birthday when two men crashed her party and later raped her. The police arrested one of the suspects yesterday and are still looking for the second. Saturday night, James Moye and Daquan Williamson apparently tried to join the party in a Queens Village home. One even "whipped out a black handgun" but they left the house after a fight. However, they stayed in a van outside......

A wager between two career criminals ended very badly last week, with one man killing the other after he lost. Roy Hodge, who was 34 years old, bet his friend Robert Jenkins that eventually Jenkins would get mugged, because he repeatedly flashed his cash around in public. Jenkins didn't believe it and the two bet $500 on the matter, with Hodge winning if Jenkins did get mugged. They made the deal in June and a......

November marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Tawana Brawley affair--an incident that inflamed racial relations in New York and across the country after a teenage girl alleged that she had been sexually assaulted and abused by police. The ensuing media circus thrust Rev. Al Sharpton into the limelight and established his bona fides as a community spokesman. It also tarnished the reputations of the people she accused of raping her and, later......

Trisha Meili, the woman who was brutally attacked and raped while jogging in Central Park in 1989, is no fan of Oprah Winfrey's line of questioning. Five years after she gave her first interview to Winfrey's magazine O, Meili spoke to NY1. First, here is an excerpt of the 2002 interview Meili (who did not disclose her name at that time) gave to Oprah:Oprah: When I first heard about you, I thought, why were you......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing on 168th St. and Hillside Ave. in Queens, a sexual assault at Stanton and Attorney Sts. in Manhattan, and a missing child on Himrod St. in Brooklyn. Artist Eve Mosher is outlining in chalk the high water lines that floods will reach every four years by 2080 if global warming continues unabated. The project can be seen at her site highwaterline. Six-year-old Natalie Shea is now a......