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Daquan Armstead charged in string of random NYC attacks on women over the past month: NYPD

A deranged woman-hating maniac wanted for more than a half-dozen random attacks on women in the Big Apple is finally in custody, police and sources said Tuesday.

Daquan Armstead, 31, was picked up by cops shortly after midnight and charged with third-degree assault and harassment in eight unprovoked attacks on women over the past month, the sources said.

That includes an April 17 attack on a 27-year-old administrator at New York University, who was slugged in the face while walking through Washington Square Park around 10:30 a.m., according to police.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating, although details weren’t released.

Daquan Armstead, 31, is charged with eight random attacks on women in the Big Apple dating to February. Matthew McDermott

Armstead is also being charged in seven other attacks this year.

The violent spree began on Feb. 12, when police said Armstead allegedly walked up to a 30-year-old woman on Elizabeth Street around 11:50 a.m. and punched her without warning, then fled.

On March 24 he allegedly attacked a 30-year-old woman on Delancy Street at around 2 a.m., hitting the victim in the back of the head as she turned. He then ran from the scene.

The following day Armstead is charged with punching a 36-year-old woman in the back as she walked along Chrystie and Rivington streets around 10:15 a.m., police said.

On April 2, he allegedly slugged another woman after he asked the 38-year-old victim for $1 and she replied that she had no cash — so he punched her in the back of the head.

Police said he is also accused of attacking two women in separate incidents on Delancey Street on April 5 — a 25-year-old who was slugged on the right side of her head around 12:25 p.m. and a 44-year-old who was punched in the face just five minutes later, according to cops.

In the last alleged attack before the assault on the NYU administrator, police said Armstead punched a 24-year-old woman on Stanton Street after she also refused when he asked her for $1 shortly before 10 a.m.

Police said Daquan Armstead allegedly attacked a woman at Essex and Delancey streets on April 5 — and another woman down the street five minutes later. Google Maps
Daquan Armstead is chaarged with random attacks on two women on Delancey Street earlier this month — and six other assaults since Februrary. Google Maps

Records show his prior busts date to a 2021 misdemeanor asault case.

He is expected to be arraigned on the new charges later on Tuesday.

Police have also been investigating a series of other attacks on woman that have not been linked to Armstead, including a 23-year-old woman slugged outside Union Square McDonald’s last month.

Among the other recent victims was Halley Kate, an influencer with 1.1 million followers on TikTok, who posted a video last week saying she was assaulted so viciously that she blacked out.

Daquan Armstead, 31, was arrested early Tuesday and is being charged with eight random attacks on women. Obtained by NY Post

Skiboky Stora, 40, a criminal with an extensive criminal record, was busted in that case.

In another random attack, a 57-year-old Brooklyn school bus aide was slugged by an unhinged man — a brutal attack that broke her jaw and knocked out several teeth — in Crown Heights, cops said.

Franz Jeudy, 33 — who has a history of sucker-punch attacks and mental illness — was hit with misdemeanor assault charges in that attack, according to a criminal complaint..

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Nearly half of Americans believe Trump should suspend 2024 campaign: poll

Almost half of Americans surveyed in a new poll believe that former President Donald Trump should suspend his presidential campaign as a result of his indictment related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. 

Trump, 76, was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom last week on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the 45th president centers on an alleged scheme to orchestrate illegal “catch and kill” payments in an attempt to suppress negative stories about him during the 2016 presidential election that continued while he was in office. 

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released on Sunday found that 48% of Americans think Trump should suspend his White House bid following the indictment.

In comparison, when asked the same question before Trump’s arraignment, 43% said the former president should halt his campaign. 

The more recent poll also found that 53% believe Trump’s actions were intentionally illegal. 


Almost half of people surveyed believe Trump should suspend his presidential campaign.
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Only 20% of respondents said that they think Trump did nothing wrong. 

Eleven percent answered that while they think he acted improperly, it was not intentionally illegal.

With the indictment now unsealed, 52% of respondents view the charges as serious, an increase of 2 percentage points from last week, while 39% do not view the 34 felony counts as serious. 


Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
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In the post-arraignment poll, 45% of Americans believe that Trump should be charged with a crime, an increase of 5 percentage points from last week, and 32% said the ex-commander-in-chief shouldn’t face charges.

Trump and numerous Republican lawmakers have accused Bragg’s case of being politically motivated, a claim which 47% of those polled agree with. Only 32% said politics did not play a role in the decision to charge Trump. 


Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is accusing Trump of orchestrating illegal “catch and kill” payments in an attempt to suppress negative stories about him during the 2016 presidential election.
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The ABC News/Ipsos poll surveyed 566 US adults and was conducted between April 6 and April 7. It has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.

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NYC smoke shop scene of man fatally shot in the head

A man was fatally shot inside a Harlem smoke shop Sunday after the gunman blasted the victim in the head, according to harrowing footage of the cold-blooded killing.

The 36-year-old victim was found bleeding from bullet wounds inside the smoke shop at 304 Lenox Ave. around 8 p.m., police said. The shooting is the latest rash of violence tied to the budding industry in the Big Apple.

The unnamed victim suffered a gunshot wound to the head and back, according to law enforcement sources.

He was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals/Harlem where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

The suspect and the 36-year-old were involved in a dispute moments before the shooting, cops said.

Video of the encounter, obtained by The Post, shows the gunman and victim talking for several seconds as several other men stand around. The victim appears to start leaving, but as he’s walking out, the suspect pulled a gun out of his pocket and fired — striking the victim in the head, according to the footage.


The shooter was seen casually pulling out his gun and shooting the man in the head.

The gunman was seen shooting the man in the head as he appeared to be exiting the smoke shop.

The victim fell to the ground, but was still moving and appeared to try to get himself up before the shooter callously fired another round into the man’s back, the video shows.

The suspect is seen casually leaving the store following the violent attack. Officers said he fled on foot wearing dark-colored clothing.

No arrests have been made.


The shooter was seen casually leaving the smoke shop after killing the man.
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The Harlem store wasn’t the only smoke shop where employees needed to call police Sunday.

A smoke shop in Brooklyn was robbed by a masked suspect who displayed an unknown object and swiped cash, authorities said.

The robber was wearing all black including a mask, the NYPD said. No injuries were reported.

Robberies at NYC’s stoner-friendly storefronts continue to climb, a top cop said at a March 20 City Council public safety hearing.


The gunman has not yet been identified and no arrests have been made.
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Law enforcement personnel inside the smoke shop investigating the shooting.
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Robberies targeting storefronts that sell pot paraphernalia – and in many cases unregulated cannabis – have increased 10% this year compared to 2022, Police Chief of Patrol John Chell said.

Days before the council hearing, a worker was shot and killed during a botched smoke shop robbery in Queens. 

Additional reporting by Tina Moore.

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Al Sharpton celebrates Trump indictment as ‘spiritual’ payback

Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday celebrated a Manhattan grand jury’s indictment against former President Donald Trump as a sort of “spiritual” payback for his White House policies and his call for the death penalty for the “Central Park Five.” 

The activist and MSNBC host made the claim at a New York University forum on Tuesday, according to the Washington Times, where he also called it “ironic” that Trump, 76, was indicted on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that the criminal case against him is being handled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is black.

“I’m always looking for the spiritual interpretation of something. And I think it’s very ironic that on … the 55th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, that the president that tried to turn back a lot of what King did is going to be arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court by a Black DA,” Sharpton said at the event, held before Trump’s arraignment.

 “I’m thinking of Dr. King as the first Black Manhattan DA will deliver us justice and bring criminal charges against President Trump,” he added. 


Rev. Al Sharpton celebrated former President Trump’s indictment as a “spiritual” payback for his White House policies.
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Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, also suggested that 45th president’s indictment is “justice” for a full-page newspaper ad taken out by Trump in 1989 that called for five black and Hispanic teenagers wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in Central Park to be executed. 

The five accused, known as the “Central Park 5,” were later exonerated. 

“I’m thinking of the Exonerated 5, who were not just victims of a criminal justice system that did not protect them, but also of vitriol and hate spewed by men like Trump,” Sharpton said. “But today we see progress with the arc of history bending towards justice, just as Dr. King said. While we celebrate this moment of justice on the anniversary of King’s assassination, we have to remember the work is not done.”


Sharpton also noted that Trump was indicted on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sharpton also noted that Trump — who was charged in New York for falsifying business records in regard to hush money payments — is being investigated in Georgia by a black district attorney, Fani Willis, for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the Peach State.

“You might say the arc of justice is long, but it bends towards [justice] and I think that that often comes full circle,” Sharpton added.


Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought 34 charges against the former president.
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Sharpton’s comments on Tuesday echoed a statement he released last week on the day the grand jury voted in favor of indicting the former commander-in-chief.

“All I can say is, what goes around comes around,” Sharpton said in a statement.

“It’s not lost on those of us who were there in 1989 that Donald Trump will likely walk into the same courthouse where the Exonerated 5 were falsely convicted for a crime they did not commit,” he said.


Trump is also being investigated in Georgia by a black district attorney for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
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“Let’s not forget that it was Donald Trump who took out full-page ads calling for these five Black and Brown young men to get the death penalty,” the activist added.

“This is the same man who’s now calling for violence when he has to go through the same system. The same man will have to stand up in a courtroom and see firsthand what the criminal justice system is like.”

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Julia Fox co-signed brother’s $450K bail bond in NYC ghost gun peddling bust

Julia Fox’s brother posted bail Monday after getting busted for allegedly running a ghost gun peddling operation out of his Upper East Side apartment — getting a helping hand from his famous sister, The Post has learned.

The “Uncut Gems” actress co-signed the $450,000 bond to get her kid brother Christopher Fox sprung from Rikers Island after he was hit with a slew of gun possession and manufacturing charges last week.

“Of course Ms. Fox seemed upset,” celebrity bail bondsman Ira Judelson, who posted the bond, told The Post. “It is her brother.”

Christopher Fox, 30, was arrested last week and hit with a slew of charges for allegedly using 3D printers to create gun parts that could be assembled and sold as untraceable “ghost guns,” according to Manhattan prosecutors.

Authorities confirmed on Monday that Christopher made the $450,000 bond and was awaiting to be released following an appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday. He’s due back in court on May 4.

The bail receipt shows that Julia and her parents signed off on the bond, with the star listing her occupation as “actress/model” with the word “retired” penciled in.


Julia Fox’s brother, Christopher, was released on a $450,000 bond Monday after getting hit with multiple gun possession and manufacturing charges in Manhattan last week.

The bond was secured with assets belonging to her and Christopher’s dad Thomas Fox, officials said. The elder Fox was taken into custody along with his son but has not been charged. Authorities say the investigation into the operation is ongoing.

Prosecutors allege Christopher cashed in on about $345,000 in illicit gun sales through his CashApp account between April 2020 and January 2023.

Cops also found drug paraphernalia and chemicals in his apartment, including pressure cookers, fentanyl, chloroform, heroin, crack and cocaine, prosecutors said.

“The defendant possessed enough gun parts to assemble an assault weapon-style rifle,” Assistant District Attorney Cyril Heron said at Christopher’s arraignment late Thursday.


Actress and model Julia Fox personally reached out to a Big Apple bail bondsman before her brother, Christopher, made bail on gun charges lodged last week.
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Printed gun parts are typically sold piecemeal and used to assemble ghost guns, which are manufactured without serial numbers and are therefore untraceable.

Cops busted into Fox’s home around 6 a.m. on March 8 as part of a larger ghost gun investigation, with police allegedly finding several printers and individual gun parts.

Amid all the contraband recovered inside the 84th Street apartment were thousands of dollars worth of high-end wine bottles, law enforcement sources said.


Big Apple bail bondsman Ira Judelson, who has bailed out stars like Connor McGregor and footballer Plaxico Burress, said Julia Fox co-signed her brothers $450,000 bond.
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Julia Fox has spoken out in the past about growing up in the Big Apple with her single dad and brother, and has said she does not often get a chance to see them.

In a 2019 interview with the highsnobiety.com entertainment site, she called her brother “a mad scientist recluse” who “builds 3D printers for fun.”

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Three stabbings in NYC kill one, injure two as 2023 begins: NYPD

Three overnight stabbings in the Bronx and Manhattan left one person dead and a man and woman injured, cops said.

A 63-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest and a 38-year-old woman was stabbed in the torso in front of 1335 College Avenue in the Bronx at around 4 a.m., cops said.

Both took private transportation to Bronx Lebanon Hospital where the man was pronounced dead, cops said. The woman was in stable condition.

The “victims were involved in a dispute with an unknown individual who stabbed them,” a police spokeswoman said. There was no known motive, she said.

Meanwhile, a man was stabbed in the stomach at East 21st Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron District at around 2:30 a.m., police said.

A 38-year-old woman was stabbed in the torso in front of 1335 College Avenue in the Bronx at around 4 a.m., according to police.
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A 63-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest early in the morning in the Bronx.
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A man was rushed to a hospital after being stabbed in the stomach in Manhattan’s Flatiron District at around 2:30 a.m., police said.
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He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. The suspect, who was wearing a yellow jacket and gray jeans, fled on 21st Street on foot, cops said. There was no known motive.

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No. 1 suspect! NYC firefighter peed on Jewish sukkah: cops

Urine for it now, Mr. Party!

Cops charged an FDNY smoke-eater — aptly named Marty P. Party — with criminal mischief for drunkenly peeing on a Jewish dining structure known as a sukkah on the Upper East Side, police said Friday.

The 37-year-old off-duty firefighter first kicked the hut on East 92nd Street near Second Avenue in Manhattan and damaged it around 1:12 a.m. Oct. 8, according to the NYPD.

The pugnacious piddler then took a leak inside the temporary structure — used for feasting during the Jewish holiday Sukkot — before fleeing, according to police.

Party, who was also identified in records as Martin Lydon, was charged with criminal mischief, according to cops. He was issued a desk appearance ticket and released.

Marty Party was charged with criminal mischief.

Images released by the NYPD of the alleged troublesome tinkler show him wearing a baseball cap backwards, a“Dirty Dancing”-themed T-shirt and carrying something in a paper bag.

Party didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday.

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Andrew Cuomo and Kellyanne Conway dine together on UES

Political disagreements were not on the menu at Il Postino on the Upper East Side where Andrew Cuomo and Kellyanne Conway dined together Monday night.

The disgraced former governor sat with the ex-political advisor for one of his biggest rivals — former President Donald Trump.

Cuomo, a Democrat, and Conway, a Republican, were photographed leaving the Italian restaurant on 61st Street after 10 p.m.

The former gov did not comment on the relevance of the dinner as he got into his car.

He waved to Conway as they parted ways.

The unlikely pair had been at the center of political power just two years ago.

Cuomo did not comment on why the two were out dining together.
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One had a fall from grace while former Conway’s former boss is fending off multiple investigations and legal entanglements while attempting another run for office.

Cuomo became a national presence when he took over television screens for his daily press briefings on the crisis in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also appeared with his brother, disgraced former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, on primetime cable news.

Chris Cuomo resigned a year later after he was hit with growing sexual misconduct allegations.

Conway helped lead former President Donald Trump to the presidency when she was his campaign manager in 2016 and was an influential figure in the White House during his term.

Conway has said she is not working on Trump’s 2024 campaign.
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But Trump lost his reelection in 2020 and refused to accept the results. Conway, who left her official role in the White House months before the 2020 election, recently sat for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House committee that’s probed events into the riot at the US Capitol.

Conway has said she was not working on Trump’s 2024 campaign.

That House committee recommended criminal charges for Trump Monday over the Capitol riot.  

While on different sides of the political aisle, the source told The Post “both of them are in a war of relevance.”

Conway did not comment on why the two were meeting.
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The Italian restaurant IL Postino where the two met for dinner.
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Cuomo after leaving the restaurant IL Postino on the Upper East Side.
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“She’s on the downfall given her role with the former president and he has had his problems,” the source said.

The source also criticized Cuomo for dining with a former staffer attached to Trump, who Cuomo criticized countless times while the two men were both in office. Trump called Cuomo a “total loser” when the governor announced he was stepping down.

“He would decry the folks that worked with President Trump,” the source said of Cuomo. “and now he dines among them.”

“What’s next, Mar-a-Lago?” the source added in reference to the Florida resort where Trump lives.

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Zeldin won’t let hecklers stop his anti-crime remarks at site of NYC rape

Hecklers tried to disrupt a Friday appearance by Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in Manhattan  — but their shouts failed to silence his anti-crime broadsides against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

During a news conference near the scene of the Thursday morning rape of a tourist jogging in Hudson River Park, Zeldin said, “It is important that we are doing everything in our power to make our streets and our subway safe.”

“Now, unfortunately, Kathy Hochul doesn’t want to be here talking about these issues,” he said. “She wants to send her supporters to make sure that we aren’t talking about fighting crime.”

Zeldin also blasted Hillary Clinton for accusing Republicans of trying to keep voters “scared” while she campaigned for Hochul with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday night.

In response to a question from The Post, Zeldin said Clinton and Hochul should be telling New Yorkers, “I understand your concerns. I want to do absolutely everything in my power to be able to fix it. Here are my solutions and I’m committed to getting it done.”

“But instead, a strategic decision was made by them, that they didn’t want to talk about crime, that they wanted to talk about other issues,” he said.

“Why is it that the polls are close? What you are hearing right now is why the polls are close. Last night, when you listened to that rally, that is why the polls are close.”

Although the small band of protesters from the progressive “Rise and Resist” group made noise throughout Zeldin’s 20-minute appearance, he managed at one point to get them to change their tactics.

When Zeldin said, “They want to drown out the conversation,” the activists instead started cheering and clapping.

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Woman who fell from NYC bar remembered as sweet and loving

The 26-year-old woman who plunged to her death from a fancy rooftop bar in Manhattan was an aspiring model who was “sweet and loving,” her family said Thursday evening.

Elizabeth Gaglewski, of Queens, plummeted from the ledge of Bar 54 at the Hyatt Centric Times Square New York Wednesday afternoon and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to authorities.

“She was just a good person, a sweet and loving, caring kid,” her uncle Tony Smith told The Post from inside their home.

“She was a good, loving, kind girl,” added her aunt Janet, who didn’t give her last name. 

Investigators on Thursday were still trying to determine if Gaglewski jumped intentionally or fell by accident.

The victim was identified as Elizabeth Gaglewski by her aunt and uncle, and law enforcement sources.
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The fall occurred from Bar 54 at the Hyatt Centric Times Square New York Wednesday afternoon.
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Staff attempted to save her life, but she was already off the side before they could reach her, sources said.
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The family was coping with their loss a day after the tragic incident where Gaglewski fell from the 54th floor and landed on a 27th-floor balcony, cops have said.  

Her uncle also said they were not sure whether the fall was intentional or not and declined to say if she was struggling with depression or mental health.

“We are still waiting to get all the information from cops,” Smith said.

Police have said they are reviewing surveillance footage of the incident.

Authorities respond to a reports of a person who allegedly jumped from the rooftop bar at Hyatt Centric.

Staff attempted to save her life, but she was already off the side before they could reach her, sources said.

“They saw it. They tried to help her but they couldn’t,” a worker who wasn’t there but had been briefed on the incident told The Post earlier Thursday.

“The whole staff is traumatized right now.”

Witnesses told cops after the incident the woman was “seen jumping” from the ledge.

Sources said Gaglewski was not staying at the hotel, and that she had ordered a drink before apparently climbing over the ledge.

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 988, text HOME to 741741 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.

Additional reporting by Joe Marino and Larry Celona

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