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The chains were cut off of three gates at Midwood’s Kolbert Playground with an angle grinder.

The US Open tennis tournament will be held this summer in Queens — without fans in the stands — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday, a step back towards normalcy amid the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic. The US Tennis Association “is going to be taking extraordinary precautions” to keep players and staff safe as the...

The unidentified woman was riding her bike at Fifth Avenue and East 59th Street just before 9 a.m. when the BxM10 bus hit her, police said.

Bernardo Ramos was busted Monday and charged with attempted rape, sex abuse, forcible touching, unlawful imprisonment and assault, authorities said.

Police have collared the heartless cur who knocked an elderly woman to the ground in a random attack. “Thanks to the outstanding work of @NYPDDetectives, this suspect has been apprehended,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted Tuesday. The 92-year-old woman was pushed down while walking down Third Avenue near East 16th Street in the Gramercy Park...

The head of the city’s coronavirus tracing program repeatedly dodged questions about why people who test positive for COVID-19 are not asked if they attended the mass demonstrations throughout the city over the death of George Floyd. “The only real way to evaluate everybody at a large event like a protest is to have everybody...

The Police Benevolent Association and Detectives' Endowment Association tweeted that three cops were intentionally poisoned at the eatery at 200 Broadway on Monday night.

He once likened the threat of coronavirus to seniors to “fire through dry grass,” but Gov. Andrew Cuomo still won’t say who came up with his administration’s controversial policy forcing nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients and how many of more than 6,000 resident deaths to date came as a result of it, according to a...

The mother of Thomas Valva filed a $200 million federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming Long Island courts, school officials, and social service agencies failed to protect the boy from his abusive ex-NYPD cop dad before the youngster froze to death in January. Justyna Zubko-Valva claims in court papers that her autistic 8-year-old son was subjected to...

The 92-year-old woman who was shoved into a fire hydrant in a random attack on a Manhattan street last week told The Post Tuesday that the ambush has taken a psychological toll on her — and she now fears walking alone in her neighborhood. “Mostly I’m shaken. My head still hurts where it was bleeding,...