Man Shot On Busy 125th Street Corner, Police Say

HARLEM, NY — A man was shot near a busy corner on 125th Street early Tuesday — the latest in a string of shootings along the Harlem corridor.

It happened just before 7 a.m. on the corner of West 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, when an unknown gunman shot the male victim in the right arm, according to an NYPD spokesperson. The man was expected to survive.

The suspect was described only as a man wearing a black jacket. No arrests had been made.

It is at least the third shooting along 125th Street within the past week. Last Tuesday, a 23-year-old man was shot and killed near the corner of 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, and an MTA bus was hit by a bullet near the intersection of East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue on Sunday (no one was injured).

Reports of crime have risen by 19 percent so far this year in Harlem's 28th Precinct, where Tuesday's shooting took place, according to NYPD statistics.