Leonard Blair
The Archive
COONSKIN CAPPED
May 16, 2008 | 8:39amCops trying to safely capture a raccoon in a tree on the Upper East Side bungled their attempt at animal control yesterday - and wound up killing the furry woodland...
A KEY TO REMY'S HEART
May 13, 2008 | 7:21amMost grooms just bring the ring. This one tried to bring a handcuff key, too. Jailed bride-to-be Remy Ma was left standing at the altar at Rikers Island yesterday after...
DON'T EXPECT ANY BLING, MA
May 10, 2008 | 7:31amEveryone wants to make mom feel like a million bucks on Mother's Day tomorrow, but the economic pinch means some consumers will have to spend less. "I think Mother's Day...
MAN SLAIN SAVING BROTHER
May 4, 2008 | 7:57amA brave 27-year-old Bronx man was stabbed to death when he ran to the aid of his brother, who was being attacked by a street mob, police said. Alex Cruz,...
SAVVY NYERS ADOPT 'TANK' BATTLE PLANS
April 30, 2008 | 7:50amNew Yorkers filled up with more gall per gallon yesterday as gasoline prices reached yet another record high. With the average price of a gallon of regular in the city...
OLD MCDONALD HAD A CONDO...
April 29, 2008 | 7:04amThere's fowl play going on in the basement of a tony East Side high-rise that dozens of diplos call home. Building super John Hyranyaz, 62, has been mail-ordering batches of...
SHOOTING NIGHTMARE FOR BRONX HONORS GIRL, 15
April 28, 2008 | 8:12amA Bronx honors student said she thought she "was about to die" after being shot in the ankle by a stray bullet when gunfire erupted yesterday outside a housing project,...
HARLEM SHOOT SPREE
April 16, 2008 | 7:34amAn off-duty mailman shot two drug-addled neighbors in a Harlem housing project yesterday before killing himself in front of his parents as cops came to his door, authorities said. Roberto...
UNITED FAITHS RIP TEMPLE VANDALS
April 14, 2008 | 8:16amMore than 200 Muslims, Christians and Jews yesterday rallied to decry the desecration of a Westchester synagogue allegedly trashed by three teenage girls. Gathering outside the Mohegan Park Jewish Center...
3RD STUDENT CAUGHT WITH GUN
April 9, 2008 | 7:18amFor the third time in nine school days a student has been busted with a gun - this time, a Bronx 13-year-old. Cops arrested the IS 318 student - whom...
CHILD CHARGED IN SENSELESS 'SLAY'
April 6, 2008 | 8:21amA 13-year-old boy was charged last night with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a promising Columbia University grad student who ran in to traffic to escape a pair of...
TEARS FOR RAP-BASH BULLET MA
April 4, 2008 | 7:27amThere were final goodbyes, prayers and a peace march yesterday for a beloved Brooklyn mother of three killed by a stray bullet - as police sources said a possible suspect...
BRAKES ON 'CRAZY HELL HACK'
March 31, 2008 | 6:54amThe city calls him the cabby from hell. Taxi driver Abubakarr Jalloh, 52, was beating more than the traffic when - in two separate complaints - Taxi and Limousine inspectors...
BITTERSWEET IN THE BRONX
March 31, 2008 | 6:54amFor longtime Yankee fans, today's home opener marks the beginning of the end. This season is the long goodbye to the House That Ruth Built, that Reggie remodeled and that...
MADAM-PAL BUST
March 30, 2008 | 9:17amThe alleged second in command at a high-end hooker ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted yesterday after a night on the lam, officials said. Pretty Bronx brunette...
MADAM-PAL BUST
March 29, 2008 | 8:28pmThe alleged second in command at a high-end hooker ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted today after a night on the lam, officials said. Pretty Bronx brunette...
'CAPTOR' DAD
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA Bronx man forced his way into his estranged wife's apartment and held their two sons hostage for several hours yesterday, police said. Camilo Mejias, 27, went to the Creston...
BAD-BUST GUY: I STILL WANT TO BE A COP
March 27, 2008 | 7:34amA cop wannabe who passed a test to enter the Police Academy before he was arrested for an armed bodega robbery last June has been cleared by DNA evidence -...
CALM BEFORE A CATASTROPHE
March 17, 2008 | 7:11amCrane operator Wayne Bleidner seems to have everything under control in this photo taken less than an hour before disaster struck. But on a spring-like day under ideal work conditions,...
COP STANDS BY TESTIMONY
March 2, 2008 | 8:19amThe lieutenant in charge of the unit that killed Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets said he had no trouble giving damning testimony against his fellow cops because...