Ramapo police responding to a report of a possible gunshot victim instead found a pedestrian struck multiple times by paint balls in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
An East Harlem teenager was part of a group shouting anti-gay slurs at three men near the intersection of West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue around 3 a.m. Saturday, according to police.
A Columbia University football player has been arrested and charged with a hate crime for allegedly threatening an Asian student at the Morningside Heights campus on Sunday.
A man accused of spitting anti-gay and racist insults while attacking a patron at one of New York City's oldest gay bars has pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime and other charges.