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“We’re not going to board up the windows," said Nancy Bass Wyden, third-generation owner of the famed 93-year-old bookstore vandalized amid the NYC protests.

The man accused of shooting two cops and stabbing a third in Brooklyn this week screamed “Allahu akbar!” three times during the unprovoked attack, police said Saturday. Authorities have so far been unable to tie the man, Dzenan Camovic, to any organized terror group, but there are indications that his alleged tactics and ambush were...

The NYPD this week made more than 1,000 arrests tied to the protests over George Floyd's death and issued another 1,475 summonses for violating the city's curfew.

The Pace University baseball coach accidentally cracked two bones in a player’s face with a bat after the team lost a doubleheader — and didn’t call for an ambulance to take the bloodied teen to a hospital, witnesses told The Post. Veteran manager Hank Manning, 51, was ranting during a locker-room huddle March 8 after...

‘By looting my store, you’re sending a message that I don’t deserve what I have. But I’m a minority, too.’

Rudy Giuliani blasted Mayor de Blasio’s handling of the rioting and looting that has gripped the city this week, saying the current occupant of Gracie Mansion is unfit for office and “intellectually challenged.” “The mayor’s performance is dreadful. He’s doing everything you can do that’s wrong, just like he did during the pandemic,” the former...

Chancellor Richard Carranza’s second-in-command is poised to get a top job in Georgia after claiming bogus achievements in NYC, critics say. Cheryl Watson-Harris, Carranza’s first deputy chancellor, has been named the finalist to become superintendent of DeKalb County schools’ 99,000 students, which includes suburban Atlanta. Her cover letter in recently applying to Sarasota, Fla., Watson...

The NYPD is eyeing a controversial “pandemic drone” that caused so much hysteria in one Connecticut community, cops had to cancel the program. Residents in Westport successfully grounded Draganfly’s sensor-equipped drone — which can detect fever, temperature, heart and respiratory rates in humans from as far as 190 feet in the air — soon after...

Almost every looting case occurred in Manhattan. Brooklyn’s only looting case left two cops injured when the perps — after making off with garbage bags of merchandise from G-Star Raw clothing store in Williamsburg — smashed into a police cruiser around 4:30 am Monday, according to a complaint. One cop suffered a knee injury, while...

Police are looking for a group who stole $60,000 in prescription drugs from a Midtown pharmacy during the city’s worst night of looting, the NYPD said Saturday. The three men, who appear to be in their 20s or younger, were caught on surveillance video inside a West 50th Street Rite Aid, after breaking in through...