Teen Slashed on UWS; Cops Collar 15-year-old for Harlem Shooting
Teen with a knife, teen with a gun, all on the UWS.

Teen violence reached a locale little known for such mayhem, namely Two Waterline Square at 400 W. 61st St. (which also has the address of 30 Riverside Blvd.)
The 38-story building, which contains 160 units, is one of the three that make up the Waterline Square development between West 59th Street and West 61st Street and between Riverside Boulevard and Freedom Place South.
On July 23, NYPD received a call at around 10:45pm about an assault at Two Waterline Square. When cops from the 20th Precinct arrived they found a 16-year-old boy with multiple slash wounds, including to his left wrist, left shoulder, and back.
The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in stable condition.
According to AM New York, the teen was inside a building stairwell with a female of undisclosed age, when four male assailants appeared.
It’s believed cops recovered a knife at the scene. The perpetrators fled on foot to parts unknown.
Although a commenter in neighborhood blog West Side Rag stated that there had been another assault, this one against a woman, at Waterline Square three nights prior, the NYPD said it has no record of such an incident occurring there.
15-Year-Old Shoots Man Twice His Age in Harlem
Meanwhile, in the lower reaches of Harlem, four short blocks from Central Park and the verdant Charles A. Dana Nature Center, a teenager wasn’t the victim of a shooting but rather, according to police, the alleged shooter himself. Details are as follows:
On July 21, 2025, at approximately 6:27pm in the vicinity of West 114th Street and Lenox Avenue, adjacent to the King Towers NYCHA complex within the confines of the 28th Precinct, police had a “pick up” of a male shot.
Police officers observed a 30-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the upper right thigh. EMS responded and transported the victim to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition.
It’s been reported that two teen gunmen fled the scene, one on a CitiBike, the other first on a kick scooter, then on foot. A cop giving chase ordered the runner to stop, and when he didn’t she fired her gun but missed.
This suspect was subsequently arrested, allegedly with a 9 mm handgun in his possession, and charged at 3am on Tuesday, July 22.
Because the suspect is a juvenile, further details are scant but the 15-year-old male now has attempted murder plus assault and criminal possession of a weapon charges to occupy his summer.
The second, CitiBike-riding gunman is still at large.
This isn’t the first time Straus News has reported on teenage gun crime in the area.
In May, a 15-year-old boy was shot outside the King Towers near 1370 5th Avenue, which is about where 113th Street would be if it ran through the project superblock.
In June, a 15-year-old boy was busted for gun possession at Columbus Avenue and West 103rd Street, near the Douglass Houses NYCHA complex.