Sonia Rincón
If her name sounds familiar, you may have heard her voice on New York's all-news radio station 1010 WINS, where she spent 15 years as an anchor and reporter while freelance reporting for New York-area television stations, before joining the Eyewitness News team full-time in May 2022.
Her broadcast journalism career began at Emerson College in Boston, where she served as news director for college radio station WERS-FM. Before returning home to New York, Sonia reported and anchored news for radio stations in Connecticut, Maine, Virginia and Pennsylvania including KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia.
Sonia earned numerous awards in her 20+ year radio career, including an Edward R. Murrow award for storm coverage of Ida in 2021.
She also has served as an adjunct lecturer at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
Sonia has Colombian and Scottish heritage and is fluent in Spanish. When she's not working, Sonia enjoys theater and live music, fitness classes and cooking. She lives in the Bronx, is a die-hard Yankees fan and a proud alumna of LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
Sonia's Stories
Group in Lindenhurst mobilizes disaster relief efforts in wake of Hurricane Helene
As the death toll from continues to rise in the wake of Hurricane Helene, a group from Long Island is helping in the relief effort.
Possible dock workers strike looms as talks go on
The potential economic implications of a strike along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast are massive as at least 50,000 dockworkers threaten to walk off the job just after midnight on Tuesday.
NYPD says officer shot in friendly fire as police sought to subdue fare evader
A confrontation with a man beating a subway fare ended with a police officer, the suspect and two innocent bystanders shot.
Bride of victim killed in Hudson Parkway crash pleas for help to find wrong-way driver
Mayor Eric Adams is offering a reward to find the wrong-way driver responsible for a crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway that killed a groom and his cousin a day before the wedding.
Family, Bronx hospital in court battle over whether to keep woman declared brain dead alive
Amber Ebanks is on life support at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx several weeks after suffering a major stroke during surgery.
New York City to spray pesticides to help prevent spread of mosquitoes, diseases they may carry
Beginning Monday, the city will spray pesticides to prevent the spread of mosquitoes and any diseases they may carry.
NYC's unsightly sidewalk sheds and scaffolding targeted by Mayor Adams in new program
The city's so-called "Get Sheds Down" program is enforcing existing law, but the city council is working on additional incentives, requiring building owners having to use nicer looking ones, and to show every 90 days that they're actually doing work,
Bronx apartment designated for people with disabilities has had broken elevator for weeks
An apartment building designated for people with disabilities in the Bronx has had a broken elevator for six weeks and some residents have been trapped in their apartments with no hope for a solution.
Mystery Solved: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims he dumped bear carcass in Central Park
The next day, it was on every television station and it was the front page of every paper - after all, dead bears don't just turn up in Central Park.
Suspects wanted in brutal attack and robbery caught on camera at Bronx bodega
The two robbers, with faces covered in medical masks, emerged from a silver sedan and came charging into the deli, whacking an employee in the head with a gun before he could even consider cooperating.