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New video has emerged of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and a handful of his group members going toe to toe with crowds of people in lower Manhattan — one even throwing a bicycle at him — amid a night of looting. Sliwa and his citizens crime fighting group had taken position at the Foot...

Police officers tackled, punched and arrested a bike protester during a Black Lives Matter bike ride in Brooklyn Saturday night, video shows. Pierce McCaffrey, 22, of Bed-Stuy, told The Post cops tackled and cuffed him after he intentionally slow-rolled in front of an NYPD van at around 7:40 p.m. in downtown Brooklyn — 20 minutes...

New York State lawmakers began passing a package of police accountability bills and other criminal justice reforms Monday following protests and outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Both the Assembly and Senate passed five bills by early evening Monday — including one banning police chokeholds. That measure is named after Eric...

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced 20 miles of new bus service across the five boroughs that will help 750,000 New Yorkers safely return to work after the coronavirus shutdown. “This is a major step,” de Blasio said Monday at his first in-person press conference in months at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “More service equals less...

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday he is "1,000 percent" behind a proposal to shift police department funds to city youth groups.

The head of the NYPD’s sergeants union “bet” that Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and Chief of Department Terence Monahan will be out within two months — as he urged New Yorkers not to apply to become cops because of the anti-law enforcement sentiment sweeping the city and state. “In the next 30 to 60 days...

Almost one in 10 straphangers is not wearing a face mask on the subway, according to new data from the MTA. Out of 47,599 riders counted by transit pollsters between May 28 and June 4 at 23 different stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, 43,709 were wearing masks — or 92 percent, transit...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that elective surgeries can resume again in New York City. Elective surgeries, including at outpatient clinics, had been on hold since then end of March because of the coronavirus. Healthcare resources were instead focused on victims of the deadly contagion at its height. But as the number of local cases...

A perv attempted to rape a woman on a Brooklyn train in a midday attack over the weekend, cops said. The 25-year-old victim boarded a southbound F train at Jay Street Saturday afternoon and was standing in the middle of the car when she spotted a man watching her as he removed his belt and...

Gotham’s tally of break-ins quadrupled last week as looters took advantage of George Floyd protests to ransack portions of Manhattan and Brooklyn — but crime still remains down for the year, new data shows. The NYPD recorded 909 burglaries in the first full week of June, compared to just 181 reports over the same time...