Contributing Reporter

Liam Quigley

Liam Quigley is a contributing reporter at the metro desk covering breaking stories for the New York Daily News. He's reported on public safety, transit, and other issues for outlets such as the Village Voice and Hell Gate.

The girl took a knife from her bag and stabbed Rivera in the head Wednesday under the elevated train tracks at Queens Blvd. near the 46-Bliss Street station in Sunnyside, before swinging a knife at a witness who chased after her, prosecutors said.

Girl, 15, charged in stabbing death of Queens classmate Sara Rivera

May 10, 2024 at 10:29 p.m.

The girl took a knife from her bag and stabbed Rivera in the head Wednesday under the elevated train tracks at Queens Blvd. near the 46-Bliss Street station in Sunnyside,...

The slashing may have followed a dispute between the girl's attacker and another adult, police sources said. The man fled to the nearby 6 train station, throwing a box cutter to the rails as he scrambled across the tracks.

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Girl, 11, slashed in East Harlem by man who fled to subway tracks before arrest

May 10, 2024 at 8:05 p.m.

The slashing may have followed a dispute between the girl's attacker and another adult, police sources said. The man fled to the nearby 6 train station, throwing a box cutter...

New York University students protesting for Palestine took over the lobby of the Bobst Library building Friday afternoon, unfurling banners and demanding that the institution divest from Israel.

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NYU students occupy campus library building, unfurl pro-Palestine banner

May 11, 2024 at 10:41 a.m.

New York University students protesting for Palestine took over the lobby of the Bobst Library building Friday afternoon, unfurling banners and demanding that the institution divest from Israel.

Lynija Eason Kumar is walked from the 42nd Pct. Thursday in Manhattan. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

Bronx mom charged with killing 6-year-old daughter hung little girl in closet and beat her: prosecutors

April 26, 2024 at 9:05 p.m.

Court documents described an insect-infested apartment that reeked of rotted food, feces and urine, and cops who responded to a 911 call observed soiled clothing and linen and open containers...

Police confronted protesters at the John A. Paulson center of NYU, on Friday, 4/26/24 where several hundred protesters are gathered.

NYU students hold second pro-Gaza campus demonstration, vow to remain

April 26, 2024 at 10:21 p.m.

New York University students established a new encampment Friday evening after the NYPD cleared a similar occupation earlier this week, arresting 120 protestors including NYU staffers.

Police arrested dozens of protestors and cleared out an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at New York University on Monday night — the latest crackdown on students as tensions from the Israel-Hamas war simmer across U.S. campuses.

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Scores of NYU students arrested after university calls in NYPD

April 23, 2024 at 12:04 a.m.

Police arrested dozens of protestors and cleared out an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at New York University on Monday night — the latest crackdown on students as tensions...

Student activists occupy a protest encampment in support of Palestine inside the New School on April 21, 2024 in New York City. Activists at the New School are acting in solidarity with Columbia University students who have occupied a lawn on their campus in support of Palestine for the past 5 days.

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Dozens arrested at NYU as pro-Palestinian encampments spread across city and beyond

April 23, 2024 at 11:28 a.m.

Around 8:35 p.m. Monday, dozens of police officers in riot gear went on campus and started detaining protesters.

In a late Friday afternoon press release, the NYPD said Caban "has determined that two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick in April 2019 acted within the law for their actions leading up to the 32-year-old man’s tragic death."

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban clears cops in killing of Kawaski Trawick

April 13, 2024 at 8:17 a.m.

In a late Friday afternoon press release, the NYPD said Caban "has determined that two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick...

Out of all the inspections conducted by the city's Department of Buildings Friday, only one vacate order was issued: a school gymnasium in East New York, Brooklyn was cordoned off after cracks were found in the masonry walls.

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Damage minimal after magnitude-4.8 earthquake as dozens of NYC buildings inspected; 30 aftershocks detected

April 6, 2024 at 4:46 p.m.

Out of all the inspections conducted by the city's Department of Buildings Friday, only one vacate order was issued: a school gymnasium in East New York, Brooklyn was cordoned off after...

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Video captures NYPD captain pistol-whipping Brooklyn man in arrest struggle

April 5, 2024 at 8:15 p.m.

The arrest of a Brooklyn man by an NYPD captain captured on bystander video last week is under investigation by internal affairs cops, police said Friday.

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