Joe Mollica
The Archive
Trial by flier
If they're going to make you sit for hours in a seat with all the comfort of a spike-filled medieval torture chair, they could at least offer decent movies. That's...
Mobsters clubbed
It's the kind of rubout that every pinky-ring-wearing, espresso-sipping mobster would shed a tear over. The Triangle Social Club in Greenwich Village -- an infamous Mafia hangout once run by...
10-year-old climbed out of mom's death van
A 10-year-old boy, knowing he had only seconds to live, made an incredible escape from his family's sinking minivan -- moments before it carried his disturbed mother and three young...
Queens chalice thief gets year in jail
The heathen who stole two precious chalices from a Howard Beach church was sent to prison today after violating the terms of his probation. Theodore Kurpiewski was sentenced to a...
Blown tire suspected in Turnpike tragedy
A blown tire may have caused a Chinatown bus to veer off the New Jersey Turnpike in a deadly nighttime crash that killed the driver and a passenger, and injured...
Bloodshed at the barber's
A long-simmering feud between two generations of Brooklyn families turned deadly yesterday when a young off-duty correction officer shot his notoriously hot-tempered neighbor in the head after the elderly man...
Off-duty correction officer shoots psycho gunman inside barbershop
An off-duty Correction Officer getting a haircut in his Brooklyn neighborhood shot and killed a man who strolled into the barbershop waving a gun, police said. In a strange twist,...
Brooklyn woman kills brother's girlfriend over $20 following Facebook fight
A fight that started on Facebook ended in bloodshed when a 22-year-old was stabbed to death in a Brooklyn housing project after an argument over $20 she lent her boyfriend's...
Hero clerk foils robbery by riding hood's hood
Get this guy a cape! A Brooklyn store clerk turned into a real-life action hero when he chased after a robbery suspect, jumped on the alleged thief's car and hung...
Mug vic, 96, wants revenge
A feisty, 96-year-old codger was shoved down and mugged in his Queens building by a whippersnapper half his age -- and now he wants a rematch. Alfonso Scannapieco insists that...
Elderly mugging victim wants rematch with assailant
A feisty old codger who was shoved down and mugged in his Queens building by a whippersnapper half his age says he wants a rematch. Alfonso Scannapieco insists he could...
Cops say thugs that mugged elderly SI couple were looking for easy target
The thugs that beat an elderly Staten Island couple nearly to death for a measly $18 didn’t know the victims, and were just looking for an easy target, cops said...
Sanitation worker suffers injury after falling through grate
A part-time Sanitation worker yesterday suffered a gash cut to his head after falling 12 feet through an access grate outside an Inwood depot. Eric Pagan, 23, of the Bronx,...
Fire snuffs out boy's dream of being cop
An 8-year-old boy who dreamed of one day becoming a cop died early yesterday in a horrific predawn fire that tore through his family's Brooklyn apartment. Little William Grice became...
8-year-old boy dies in Brooklyn fire
An 8-year-old boy who dreamed of one day becoming a cop, died early Wednesday in pre-dawn blaze that ripped through his family’s Brooklyn apartment. The apartment had no smoke alarms,...
'Weapons locker' dude: They know who I am
The balding and bearded mystery man charged with hiding a cache of weapons in a city storage locker -- and ordered held on $4 million bail -- is a self-described...
Staten Island man suspected of killing parents refuses to appear in court
A schizophrenic Staten Island man refused to appear in court today to hear charges he killed his parents. Eric Bellucci, 30, who fled to Israel after the slayings of his...
Web flirts sent wife into fury
Elliott Subervi knows firsthand the trouble that Facebook can cause a marriage -- his wife discovered his 2,000 flirtatious female "friends" on his page, mostly fitness models and bodybuilders. "I...
Tot's nightmare
The 3-year-old Queens boy tossed to his death from a seventh-story balcony was harmlessly watching TV and lost in his own little world when he was scooped up by a...
Parents don't know why woman threw their son off a balcony: officials
The parents of a 3-year-old boy who was tossed to his death off a Queens balcony said they have no idea why a woman who was staying with them flipped...