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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the state will open 15 coronavirus testing centers solely for protesters — urging marchers to “act responsibly and get a test” amid concerns that the large anti-police-brutality rallies sweeping New York City are spreading the deadly contagion. With the Big Apple finally set to begin re-opening under Phase One...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday ripped cops for not wearing face masks while controlling the tens of thousands at George Floyd protests amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve seen too many officers who just have [masks] off, and it’s painful to people because it feels like they’re flouting the rules,” he said during a...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday panned calls to “defund” police departments spurred by unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death, pointing to looting that ravaged the Big Apple last week. “You have New York City, that is still reeling from the COVID virus, and now you have this night of looting, that I’m telling...

New York will allow outdoor, socially-distanced graduations of up to 150 people starting June 26, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “That’s when schools, high schools, start to graduate, and it gives us a couple weeks in between now and then, God forbid, if the numbers change,” Cuomo said of the starting date at his daily...

A 22-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest during a dispute outside a Brooklyn housing project Sunday morning, cops said. Russell Forrest was shot multiple times, including at least once in the chest, around 1:30 a.m. in front of the Albany Houses on Bergen Street in Crown Heights, according to police. He was taken...

Musician Jon Batiste, bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” headed a musical march of George Floyd protesters through the Big Apple streets over the weekend. “Look what we’re doing. We’re using music to bring people together of all races, of all genders for black lives,” Batiste told CNN’s Bill Weir on Saturday. Video showed...

The NYPD are being pelted with concrete-filled tennis balls during George Floyd protests, the NYPD warned its members Sunday. The two unidentified officers, who were following protestors Thursday after a demonstration in Union Square, were at the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 25th Street when they were pummeled with the rock-hard balls, according to...

Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community registered its outrage over the racially charged police-custody death of George Floyd Sunday, marching in Midwood shouting “no justice, no peace” and holding “Black Lives Matter” signs. More than 200 demonstrators, nearly all of them Orthodox Jews, marched peacefully down Ocean Parkway, blending calls for justice with the teachings of the...

An NYPD sergeant struck by a hit-and-run driver in The Bronx last week left the hospital Sunday to applause from his fellow Finest. Sgt. William Maher waved to a crowd of blue-clad cops as he was wheeled out of Lincoln Hospital, before rising and walking to greet the cheering throngs. He wore a blue shirt...

Surveillance video released by the NYPD Sunday shows a pair of looters smashing display cases at the Brooklyn Macy’s before they snatched $29,000 in jewelry, cops said. The pair forced open a side entrance at the Fulton Street store around 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, and used hammers to break the glass on numerous glass...