Crime & Safety
Shots Fired Near Douglass Houses On UWS: Police
An investigation is ongoing after shots were fired on the Upper West Side shortly after midnight on Wednesday, police said.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY – Approximately 7 gunshots were fired near 835 Columbus Avenue at about 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police said.
Nobody was shot and nobody was injured, a police spokesperson told Patch, and there are no descriptions of any assailants at this time.
An investigation is ongoing.
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The address is in the middle of the New York City Housing Authority’s Frederick Douglass Houses, a large complex of apartment buildings between Manhattan and Amsterdam avenues that spans four city blocks.
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