The United Bodegas Workers of America are renewing urgent calls for ‘life-saving’ panic buttons and real-time NYPD monitoring in every corner store across the city after two violent inc… ...

Mayor Eric Adams on Monday announced that $1.6 million in funding would be used to equip about 500 bodegas across the five boroughs with “SilentShields” buttons that bodega staff can press to ...

The city is planning to put panic buttons linked to the NYPD in about 500 bodegas across the five boroughs, the mayor and police commissioner announced Sunday.. Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner ...

NYPD Chief of Department John Chell said at the Sunday press conference: ... The buttons will be installed in the coming weeks and will be distributed through an emergency grant to the UBA.

The “SilentShield” panic buttons should be installed in the coming months through a $1.6 million emergency grant, Adams said. The move came one day after a man was fatally stabbed to death in ...

New York City will spend $1.6 million to equip hundreds of bodegas with emergency panic buttons, ... giving NYPD officers the ability to see crimes taking place in real time, officials said. “ ...

Victor Bautista was shot in the chest by a gunman wearing a reflective green construction vest outside of D’mi Muñeca Grocery ...

The buttons would alert the NYPD to help those in danger. "Every week you see us at a different venue, a guy gets stabbed and killed in bodega a week ago," said United Bodegas of America spokesman ...

Fake NYPD officers storm Brooklyn bodega, reviving union push for panic buttons The United Bodegas of America says the latest incident underscores the need for panic buttons in these shops, and ...