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Bronx Local News: Rider Threatens Straphanger with Gun on Bronx Subway Train

Subway Gunman Sought by NYPD for Bronx Incident The NYPD is searching for this man for allegedly menancing a subway rider with a gun. Bronx Voice  November 23, 2025 BRONX LOCAL NEWS - It was a tense commute for one 18-year-old rider on Friday afternoon when a fellow passenger pulled out a handgun and threatened on the northbound train. According to police, the incident happened around 4:55 p.m. on November 14, onboard a Number 2 train as it pulled out of the White Plains Road and Pelham Parkway station in the Bronx. The young man was simply taking his seat when an unidentified individual sat beside him. What started as just another subway ride quickly escalated.  Police say the stranger initiated a verbal dispute with the teen, made an alarming statement, and then displayed a firearm. The gunman did not demand money nor did he injure the passenger. After showing the weapon, the suspect exited the train at the Nereid Avenue station. He then fled the area on ...

Neat Crook Steals Cleaning Supplies



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 25, 2023


BRONX - A crook made a clean getaway when he robbed thousands of dollars of cleaning materials from a Bronx building. 


At around 2:17 am on January 5, police say a man hopped over a fence in the rear of a commercial building at 1382 Shakespeare Avenue in Mount Eden. The suspect entered the building through a basement door. 


Cops released surveillance video which shows the suspect coming out of an elevator with boxes of cleaning chemicals worth $500. 


The crook came back an hour later and stole a cleaning machine. Cops say the machine is valued at around $2,500. 


Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.

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