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Bob Arihood got some striking photos of a big brawl that went down around Avenue A and East 7th Street Sunday morning. According to Arihood, "A crowd of perhaps 50 people was noisily battling its way up avenue A... This event that we witnessed was very violent . People were not just beaten, some were stomped and kicked too. Only one car with 2 officers managed to get to Avenue A... We later found these officers attending to a male with a bloodied face in front of Sing Sing at 5th street and Avenue A...When we advised that there were still simmering minor conflicts around the corner on 6th street their response was that they were the only unit available." more ›

The guy who took the worst beating from firefighters during that epic bar brawl at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge at the end of Janurary has spoken to the press for the first time, and his account of the assault is harrowing. The brawl left St. Francis College coach Sinan Selmani, 35, with a broken eye orbit bone, a broken collarbone and broken shoulder, but it could have been worse. He says that at one point during the melee nine drunken firefighters punched, shoved and kicked him in an attempt to force him into the bathroom. But he held onto the door frame for dear life, and tells the Post, "I said to myself, 'If you let go of the bathroom door, you're dead.' They were saying, 'We're going to kill you!' . . . 'You're going to die, motherf- - -er!' I can't even tell you how many shots I took to my head." more ›

Just after 6 a.m., three FDNY firefighters surrendered to the Brooklyn DA's office to face assault charges stemming from an epic bar brawl at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge on January 30th. Firefighters Ryan Warnock, Michael Reilly and Christopher Emmel were caught on the bar's surveillance video throwing punches during the melee, which involved at least a dozen active and retired firemen. The DA had considered charging the whole lot with gang assault charges, but it seems the prosecution has honed in on these three. The brawl reportedly erupted after a 21-year-old man spilled a shot on a firefighter; it's unclear who threw the first punch, but the man's cousin suffered a broken eye socket and other injuries during the ensuing pandemonium. more ›

There are, unsurprisingly, conflicting accounts about who started a violent melee between roughly a dozen off-duty firefighters and a group of cousins in a Bay Ridge bar early Saturday morning. The fight started as Sinan Selmani, a soccer coach at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, passed out shots to his cousins and one of them, Luan Leka, 21, spilled his drink on a firefighter. The NYPD and FDNY say the firefighter demanded an apology and instead Leka punched him in the jaw, while a lawyer for the cousins says Leka did apologize but the firefighter was still irate. And when Selmani intervened, the firefighter punched him, sparking the brawl. more ›

A boozy brawl between more than two dozen firefighters and four unlucky civilians early Saturday morning left one man with a broken eye orbit bone, a broken collarbone and broken shoulder. The city's Department of Investigation and the NYPD are investigating the fight, which broke out at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge after one of the civilians, a 21-year-old, reached for his shot glass and spilled a little booze on one of the firefighters. "It looked like he was saying ‘I’m sorry’ and the firefighter started yelling and screaming, and one of his buddies came around and punched him the face," witness Larry Johnson tells the Post. Pandemonium ensued, and judging from Johnson's account, the only thing missing was a ragtime piano player dodging pint glasses. more ›

Two men have been sentenced to two years in prison each for participating in a brutal beating that left a Binghamton University student in a coma and damaged relations between the United States and Serbia. Edin Dzubar, 25, and Sanel Softic, 22, apologized and pleaded guilty to felony assault for kicking Bryan Steinhauer during a Binghamton bar in May 2008 that left the Brooklyn-native in a coma for months, according to the Post. Their sentencing comes after the alleged primary assailant, 23-year-old basketball player Miladin Kovacevic, fled to Serbia to avoid trial in the United States. The Serbian government paid the victim's family $900,000 in a deal to prosecute Kovacevic in his home country. more ›

The subway crew operating the uptown 6 train where a vicious fistfight left a woman bleeding severely from the face followed every protocol, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman told Gothamist. Once the crew realized that a brawl between two straphangers had broken out in the Third Avenue-138th Street station on Dec. 13 at around 1:30 am, the conductor alerted the Rail Control Center of "the fight occurring on the platform and his inability to close the doors," said MTA Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges. more ›

After Gothamist reported yesterday on a vicious fight on an uptown 6 train that left a woman bleeding severely from the face, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is trying to track down the train crew on duty when the melee took place. "We still haven't isolated the crew yet. We are trying to isolate the crew and take it from there," said MTA Transit spokesman James Anyansi. more ›

A straphanger recorded a brutal fistfight on the 6 train that left a woman bleeding profusely from the face. It's unclear exactly when or why the fight broke out, but the nasty spat — which goes on for about 3 minutes and spills out of the train car and into a station — was apparently uploaded and removed from YouTube on Dec 25 before being posted on the Daily Motion website on Dec. 26. (Update: It's now been removed from Daily Motion, but someone uploaded it to YouTube again, where it will probably stay for another few hours.) more ›

A group of pugilists roughed up five off duty cops outside a Queens nightclub on Dec. 16. The officers allegedly got into a brawl in front of the Tropix Bar and Lounge at around 4 am after an officer flashed his badge to a bouncer in an attempt to get into the Queens Boulevard venue, which was closing for the night. A group of men outside the club began shouting at the cops — who had just left a housing police holiday party — and a fight broke out, according to the Daily News. more ›

The family of a man killed by cops during a Cypress Hills bar brawl are alleging a police coverup. The brother of a man was shot and killed by undercover cops is demanding that the NYPD release surveillance video that allegedly shows the 43-year-old Kevin White pointing a gun at officers moments before his death. more ›

In a story that reads like it was ripped from the headlines 80 years ago, a Midtown shoeshiner got into a brawl with a passerby yesterday who didn't want to hear that his kicks were dirty. The fight started at the corner of 47th Street and Sixth Avenue when the passerby objected to Don Ward's offer for a $5 deep polish and punched the 43-year-old shoeshiner. "[He] took his anger out on me because of his own dirty shoes," Ward told the Post. After the fisticuffs, the pair — as is only fitting in squabbles involving shoeshiners — spat at each other until cops arrived. more ›

A Fox 5 cameraman happened to be shooting footage near the Ed Sullivan Theater yesterday for a segment on taxi medallions when an angry brawl exploded between a pedicab driver and a cabbie. It starts when the pedicab driver, fed up with the hack honking his horn behind him, tosses a cup of coffee at the cab's passenger-side window. You gonna take that cabbie? Not in New York! Check it out: more ›

A group of Brooklyn residents who got into a fight with cops in Antigua last month—apparently over a cab fare—have decided to plead guilty in hopes of no jail time. The group had been upset about a $100 cab fee (twice what they negotiated with the driver—hey, it's like NYC) and the incident escalated when two plainclothes cops got involved. The tourists swung at them, claiming the cops didn't ID themselves. The cops, in turn, claimed the tourists hit them first—and even bit them. The Brooklyn five will be sentenced today. more ›

Early yesterday morning, a fight broke out on a party yacht at the South Street Seaport and spilled onto land, leading to a man being killed in a parking lot. Now more details have emerged: The ship's co-owner told the Daily News, "I've heard 20 different versions for how this started, and they all start the same, that it was over a woman." more ›

As if you needed any further reason to steer clear of McFadden's after last weekend's massive brawl, the Daily News recalls that this isn't the first time blood's been spilled at the Turtle Bay bar and restaurant. Back in 2004, one Todd Barnes took his date there for a drink and walked out with part of his ear missing, courtesy of one of New York's bravest. more ›

It took officers from four precincts and the elite Emergency Services Unit over a quarter of an hour to break up a massive bar brawl at McFadden's on 42nd Street and Second Avenue around 10:30 on Saturday night. Police say a crowd of about 20 people were involved in the melee when it erupted out onto the street. Five people were finally arrested, including two firefighters, and another two firefighters were given summons for disorderly conduct after they went to the stationhouse and harassed cops about the arrests. more ›

Almost five years after a firehouse brawl left Staten Island firefighter Robert Walsh "a virtual invalid with almost no short-term memory," a judge has ordered the city to pay out $3.75 million, the Post reports. You may recall that the New Year's Eve fight was triggered by a bet between Walsh and Michael Silvestri, another firefighter, over Elvis Presley's birth date. After besting Walsh, Silvestri started up with the anti-gay slurs, which Walsh insisted was a typical part of life at the firehouse. The exchange culminated with Silvestri bashing Walsh in the head from behind with a metal chair; he suffered eye, jaw and skull fractures, and severe back injuries, thus ending his career at the FDNY. Silvestri's career also ended that night, and he did an eight month bit on Rikers. According to the Staten Island Advance, the settlement is far less than the $100 million sought by Walsh, who needs a cane to walk and suffers from post-traumatic migraine headaches. more ›

It comes as no surprise that model Cindy Guyer would bring the same stormy passion to her husband's fraud trail as she does to the covers of such indispensable romance novels as Tiger Dance and Desire's Song. So last week there was major drama when Guyer showed up at husband Andrew Catapano's trial (the construction honcho is charged with bribing union officials) and spotted his new girlfriend sitting in the front row. more ›

That didn't take long. Opening Day is still 2 1/2 weeks away, and the Yankees have already engaged in a bench-clearing brawl with the Devil Rays. The blood began to boil Saturday, when Tampa Bay's Elliot Johnson ran over Yankees minor-league catcher Franciso Cervelli in a collision at home plate. Cervelli got the worst of it and suffered a broken wrist. Both managers -- Joe Girardi for the Yankees and Joe Maddon for the Rays -- defended their players. Girardi said such a collision shouldn't have occurred in a spring training game. Maddon said it was "hardball" and a clean play, and that Cervelli shouldn't have blocked the plate if he didn't want to get run over. more ›

A fight outside a Yonkers bar that cost a man his vision in one eye, may cost a number of NYPD members professionally. One of the participants in the brawl on the border of the Westchester city and the Bronx, Thomas Wimmer, has already resigned from the force. Three other officers are suspended without pay after their arraignment Friday on misdemeanor charges related to a beating on McLean Ave. that cracked a man's skull. more ›