Day: August 11, 2026

A former NYPD detective is facing criminal charges after prosecutors say he repeatedly punched a handcuffed man inside a holding cell at a Carroll Gardens police precinct earlier this year. 

Raymond Ng, 51, who was assigned to the 76th Precinct detective squad, was arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with second- and third-degree assault, official misconduct, second- and third-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Ng was released without bail and ordered to return to court on Oct. 28, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said the alleged incident involved a prisoner who was already restrained inside the 76th Precinct stationhouse in Carroll Gardens.

“We expect our police personnel to carry themselves with integrirt and respect for others, even when provoke. This defendant allegedly failed that duty and violelntly attacked a handcuffed and helpless prisoner inside a police precinct. This is unaceptable and criminal conduct for which we will now seek to hold him accountable.”

According to prosecutors, the incident occurred on the morning of Jan. 19, when a 49-year-old man with no prior convictions went to the 76th Precinct to surrender on assault charges. He had been instructed to report to the station by a detective who had contacted him, but that detective was unavailable when he arrived.

Ng then processed the man’s arrest and placed him in handcuffs, prosecutors said.

Videos from inside the precinct allegedly show Ng bringing the man into a holding cell and beginning to remove his handcuffs. He then stopped, pushed the man into the cell and left him restrained, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

As Ng closed the cell door, prosecutors said, the man attempted to spit at him and pretended that he was going to spit.

Ng allegedly responded by entering the cell and attempting to kick the man before striking him repeatedly. Prosecutors said the detective was holding a padlock in his right hand while allegedly punching the man.

The video allegedly shows Ng pushing the man against the wall and cell bars before continuing to punch him in the face with his right hand. Other officers eventually intervened, according to prosecutors.

The man suffered an orbital fracture, facial abrasion, bleeding, bruising and pain in his head and right shoulder. He was taken to New York Presbyterian/Methodist Hospital, where he was treated and later released.

The assault case that had initially brought the man to the precinct has since been dismissed.

Ng joined the NYPD in 2015. Following the incident, he was demoted from detective to police officer and placed on modified duty. He was ordered to report to court on Oct. 28.

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A Manhattan lawmaker is set to introduce legislation this week aimed specifically at reining in the kinds of illegal electric motorcycles (e-motos) that a 1eenager was riding when he got into a fatal crash with an SUV driver late last month.

City Council Member Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan), who chairs the body’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, confirmed to amNewYork that he will introduce three bills on Thursday as part of a larger package that City Council Speaker Julie Menin began rolling out last week. The collection of 17 bills aim to take a wide-ranging approach to combating deadly crashes involving electric micromobility devices, following 17-year-old Gabriel Nacato’s July 29 death after crashing into an SUV on his illegal e-moto.

Menin also scheduled a hearing on the legislation and the city’s enforcement of its already existing electric micromobility laws for Sept. 30.

But unlike the bills introduced by other members, Abreu’s are designed to get electric micromobility devices that can exceed the legal top-speed and power limits for e-bikes — yet are marketed by online retailers as e-bikes anyway — off city streets. The legislation would create a city-run trade-in program, impose a $1,000 fine on retailers who sell mopeds without specifying that they must be registered with the state, and require the NYPD to use devices that can determine whether the vehicles are illegal.

The bills were first reported by the news site Hell Gate.

Abreu, in a statement, said he wants to crack down on illegal devices without endangering the livelihoods of workers who rely on e-bikes, e-scooters, and mopeds — many of whom are immigrant deliveristas.

“We can get dangerous and illegal e-devices off our streets without penalizing riders who just need a good way to get around,” Abreu said. “That’s the balance the legislative package strikes.”

Abreu added that he wants to pair “this legislation with expanded bike lane infrastructure will bring us closer to our goal of making our streets as safe as possible for both pedestrians and cyclists.” 

What the e-moto package aims to do to curb illegal motorcycles in NYC

One measure in the package requires the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) to set up a program allowing the owners of illegal or Class 3 e-bikes — those that can reach a 25 miles per hour top speed with a throttle — to trade them into the city, according to a draft of the bill. In exchange, DCWP would give those e-bike owners one of two kinds of devices with a 20 mph top speed, either a Class 1 (pedal-assisted) or Class 2 (throttle-assisted) e-bike, for free or at a discount.

Alternatively, the agency would provide them with a voucher to buy a legal e-bike from a retailer.

“This bill would help folks trade in those faster, more dangerous devices for safer ones,” Abreu said.

Another bill in the package would bar retailers from advertising for sale mopeds that are eligible to be registered with the state Department of Motor Vehicles as e-bikes or e-scooters, a draft of the bill says. Retailers selling devices that must be registered with the DMV would have to advertise them as such.

If enacted, retailers who continue to flout the law would face a $1,000 initial fine for their first infraction, then $2,000 penalties for their second.

The last bill would mandate that the NYPD and city Department of Transportation (DOT) test the use of technology known as dynamometers, which can determine an electric micromobility device’s power and speed, during certain enforcement actions. They would use the dynamometers with the goal of determining which devices on the road are illegal, the latter of which includes any found to have a motor with power exceeding 750 watts and a top speed over 25 mph.

Under the bill, the NYPD would seize the illegal devices.

“Once riders have had a chance to use the rebate program and we’ve halted the sale of illegal e-bikes, then the dynamometers can help us identify and remove illegal devices that are still on the streets,” Abreu said.

The bill requires the NYPD and DOT to focus on 10 locations they determine to have the highest micromobility traffic or concentration of crahses involving the devices.

An NYPD spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the legislation.

When asked about the bills, DOT spokesperson Vincent Barone pointed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s action last week, in which the city sent cease-and-desist letters to over 40 online retailers who are allegedly selling illegal electronic micromobility devices.

“We are reviewing the Council’s proposals, and we look forward to working with our partners at the state and local level on additional policies to get the fastest, most dangerous electric devices off our streets,” he said.

Ben Furnas, executive director of the safe streets advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, signaled support for one of Abreu’s, while noting that his group is still awaiting more details on all of the proposed legislation.

“We’re hopeful that the City Council is moving forward with a balanced package that includes a robust buy-back program and encourages a phase out for the fastest and most dangerous devices on our streets while also appropriately focusing on bad-faith retailers,” Furnas said. “We’re still awaiting details and look forward to reviewing the final legislation while we continue to fight for safe streets  for all.”

Ng was arraigned Tuesday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Denny Chun and was ordered to return to court on Oct. 28.

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Brooklynites will get a chance to step inside some of New York City’s most memorable buses next month when the New York Transit Museum brings its annual Bus Festival to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The museum, together with MTA New York City Transit, will host the 29th annual event on Sept. 19 at Emily Warren Roebling Plaza. The free festival will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., rain or shine.

The event will showcase buses spanning more than a century of New York transportation history, giving visitors a look at how the vehicles that carried generations of New Yorkers have changed over time.

Attendees can board the vintage buses, explore their interiors and exteriors and meet members of the workforce responsible for the city’s transit system.

“For 50 years, the New York Transit Museum has called a historic subway station home, but our buses are much too big to come inside,” Regina Shepherd, the museum’s acting director, said. “[The] Bus Festival allows us to bring these extraordinary vehicles into the spotlight and welcome the public aboard for a celebration of bus history.”

This year’s lineup will include several notable vehicles, one of which is making its Bus Festival debut.

Bus 303, built in 1918 for the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, is a wooden open-air double-decker that once operated on Manhattan routes. Following a restoration completed this year, it is now the oldest restored bus in the Transit Museum’s collection. It will appear alongside “Betsy,” the museum’s 1931 double-decker.

Another standout will be Bus 3100, a 1956 experimental vehicle built by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company. It became the first air-conditioned transit bus in the United States and features details including fluorescent lighting, wraparound seating and a rear exit door operated by pushing it open.

Visitors can also see Bus 100, a 1959 General Motors “New Look” bus. The model became known as the “Fishbowl” because of its large, rounded windshield and was among the first group of 190 buses to bring the design to the city.

Bus 5227, built in 1971, represents another chapter in the city’s bus history. The vehicle was part of a fleet of GM New Look buses rebuilt by the Blitz Corporation in the 1980s. It has been restored to its early-1990s look, complete with its blue-and-white color scheme. The bus holds another distinction: it was the final NYC Transit bus without a wheelchair lift to continue carrying passengers.

The festival will also feature Bus 3865, a 1993 example of the Rapid Transit Series, commonly known as RTS. The buses, recognizable for their curved shapes and sloped windshields, first entered service in 1979 and remained in operation until 2019. The bus spent years serving Queens — including under Queens Surface Corporation, Jamaica Buses and MTA Bus Company.

A more solemn piece of the collection will be represented by Bus 2185, a 2001 MCI Commuter Cruiser nicknamed “Pamela.” The 45-foot vehicle sustained extensive damage at the World Trade Center in 2001. It was later rebuilt at NYC Transit’s East New York Central Maintenance Facility and returned to service in 2005.

Today, the bus carries a memorial livery featuring American flags and a “9/11/2001: Never Forget” graphic. The vehicle will be displayed as the city approaches the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Beyond the buses themselves, the festival will feature interactive activities through the New York Transit Museum mobile app. Visitors can compete in trivia aimed at both children and adults and take part in a scavenger hunt that sends them around festival grounds to find and photograph the historic buses.

Completing the scavenger hunt will earn participants a transit-themed temporary tattoo.

The Transit Museum Store will also set up a temporary shop at the festival, with merchandise ranging from vintage us models and toys to apparel, books, posters and other transportation-themed items.

Those planning to attend can RSVP through the museum’s website for a chance to win a Dual/Household membership — which includes a year of free museum admission, discounts on vintage train rides and more.

The museum cautions that the vehicles and equipment on display may change.

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