Draft:List of homicides in New York City

This is a list of homicides in New York City. This list includes notable homicides committed in New York City that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into three subject areas as follows:

1. Multiple homicides – homicides having multiple victims, including the September 11 attacks, the Puerto Rican Social Club fire, and the Wall Street bombing of 1920
2. Serial killers – persons who murder three or more persons with the incidents taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them
3. Single homicides – notable homicides involving a single fatality, including the Assassination of Malcolm X and the Murder of John Lennon

Multiple homicides

Listed in chronological order

Incident	Location	Date	Deaths	Description	Sources
Dead Rabbits riot	Bowery	1857-07-04/05	8	Riot began with gang fight between Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys
Rosenthal murder case
Lexington Avenue explosion	Manhattan	1914-07-04	Dynamite bombing by Anarchist Black Cross at apartment building
Wall Street bombing	Wall Street	1920-09-16	40	Horse-drawn wagon loaded with dynamite and cast-iron weights blown up in front of J.P. Morgan headquarters on Wall Street
Fraunces Tavern bombing	Lower Manhattan	1975-01-24	4	Bombing by Puerto Rican FALN
1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing	LaGuardia Airport	1975-12-29	11	Bomb detonated near TWA baggage claim
Puerto Rican Social Club fire	The Bronx	1976-10-24	25	Arson fire at crowded social club
Happy Land fire	The Bronx	1990-03-25	87	Arson fire at social club
1993 World Trade Center bombing	1993-02-26	6	Van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center
Freddy's Fashion Mart attack	Harlem	1995-12-08	8	Gunman seized hostages and set building on fire
1997 Empire State Building shooting	Manhattan	1997-02-23	2
Wendy's massacre	Flushing, Queens	2000-05-24	5	Seven restaurant employees shot in head during robbery
September 11 attacks	Manhattan	2001-09-11	2,996	Hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
Maksim Gelman stabbing spree	Brooklyn, Manhattan	2011-01-11/12	4
2012 Empire State Building shooting	Manhattan	2012-08-24	2
Murder of the Krim siblings		2012-10-25
Murder of the Zhuo family	Brooklyn	2013-10-26	5	Murder of woman and four children by a cousin
The Yellow Dogs
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack		2017-06-30	2
2017 New York City truck attack	Lower Manhattan	2017-10-31	8	Uzbek terrorist drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners along the Hudson River Park's bike path

Serial killers

Listed in chronological order by date of earliest homicide

Incident	Location	Date	Deaths	Description	Sources
Lizzie Halliday
Albert Fish
Frederick Mors		1914-1915
Charlie Chop-off		1972-1973
Waldo Grant		1973-1976
David Berkowitz
Richard Cottingham
Paul Bateson
Long Island serial killer
Joel Rifkin
Richard Angelo
Robert Shulman

Single homicides

Incident	Location	Date	Description	Sources
Sanford White		1906-06-25
Serge Rubenstein		1955-01-27
Assassination of Malcolm X		1965-02-19
Murder of Arthur Collins		1965-10-09
Murder of John Lennon	Manhattan	1980-12-08	Fatal shooting of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman at The Dakota
Assassination of Meir Kahane	Manhattan	1990-11-05	Israeli American rabbi shot after speech a Manhattan hotel
Murder of Imette St. Guillen		2006-02-25
Murder of Sylvie Cachay	Manhattan	2010-12-09
Murder of Zymere Perkins		2016-09-29
Murder of Tessa Majors		2019-12-11

References

Category:Death-related lists Category:Killings in the United States Category:New York-related lists Category:Murder in New York (state) Category:History of New York (state)