NYC Right Now, 11:00 PM: 3 Reports and New Events · Oct 21

3 reports in NYC before 11:00 PM: person with a gun (East 239Th Street and White Plains Road, Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx), barricaded person (East 116Th Street and 3 Avenue, East Harlem (North), Manhattan). Details may change.

The Queensboro Bridge spanning the East River, seen from Roosevelt Island

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What happened in New York City in the 30 minutes before 11:00 PM on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, from the agencies to your pocket: no middlemen, no gatekeepers.

Right now

10:30 PM · Person with a gun · East 239Th Street and White Plains Road, Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx

  • Status: Developing
  • Where: East 239Th Street and White Plains Road, Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx
  • Responding: NYPD
  • Heard on: NYPD Citywide radio, NYPD Patrol-Boro Bronx radio · 8 transmissions, 10:30 PM–10:47 PM

10:41 PM · Barricaded person · East 116Th Street and 3 Avenue, East Harlem (North), Manhattan

  • Status: Developing
  • Where: East 116Th Street and 3 Avenue, East Harlem (North), Manhattan
  • Responding: NYPD
  • Heard on: NYPD Citywide radio · 2 transmissions, 10:41 PM–10:42 PM

10:27 PM · Stabbing / knife · West 47Th Street, Midtown-Times Square, Manhattan

  • Status: Developing
  • Where: West 47Th Street, Midtown-Times Square, Manhattan
  • Responding: MTA Transit
  • Heard on: MTA Manhattan Transit radio · 8 transmissions, 10:27 PM–10:31 PM

These are early reports from public police, fire and transit radio, and details may change as the story develops. Status updates come from what dispatchers and units say on the air. Places are given to the corner, station or block; home addresses, names and descriptions of people are never published, and medical calls are never listed.

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