Stanton Sts News Today

A teenager was fatally shot in the neck on a Lower East Side street early Sunday, cops said. The 18-year-old victim was shot outside a smoke shop on Rivington St. near Pitt St. about 12:50 a.m. ET, cops said. Medics rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Lower Manhattan but he couldn’t be saved. His name was not immediately released. Police are looking for two men who ran off west on ...

Its no wonder some New Yorkers want out of what we all once agreed was the greatest city in the world.

After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, I worried constantly about unattended backpacks, mailbox bombs and transit terrorism — but never about being personally attacked. That New York City is gone, apparently.

As a 20- and 30-something young woman living in Manhattan some years ago, the city felt like my playground. Virtually nowhere was off-limits, too unfriendly or unsafe to visit.

The shooter and his intended target got into an argument near Ludlow and Stanton Sts. about 4:15 a.m. as popular clubs and bars in the area were closing for the night, cops said.