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Looters ransacked a Manhattan furrier during the George Floyd protests this week, stealing about $750,000 in pelts from the family-owned store, police said. Surveillance footage shows people pouring into a shuttered Madison Avenue Furs & Henry Cowit store after cops say they broke down the door to the 27th Street retailer around 11:30 p.m. Monday....

Hundreds of central-office educrats in the city Department of Education have issued a letter to Chancellor Richard Carranza urging officials to cut ties with the NYPD in the wake of protests against police brutality. The letter urges removing the unarmed school safety agents who guard students and staff from NYPD control, and and “retraining” them...

The city Department of Education called on parents and students in mid-April to let school officials know how learning from home on iPads or laptops is working out.

The NYPD arrested 40 people overnight Friday as protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing entered their 10th day. The number is a steep 85 percent decline from the 270 arrested overnight Thursday, and 78 percent less than the 180 arrests overnight Wednesday. The city has been under an 8 pm curfew for the...

Suspended Buffalo Police Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were arraigned Saturday morning via video conference and released without bail, according to CNN.

Churches, mosques and temples can now open in phase two at 25 percent occupancy.

The UES Mommas, a group of nearly 40,000 women who usually trade tips on nursery schools and strollers, roiled for days over racial issues, including whether to add a black moderator or even if conversation about the protests over the killing of George Floyd was even allowed.

Two men were shot —  including one fatally in the head —  in an East New York apartment Friday night, police said. The gunfire erupted just before 8:30 p.m. Friday in a residence on Livonia Avenue near the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue, leaving a 28-year-old dead and a 40-year-old man hospitalized with two gunshot wounds...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order late Friday allowing school districts to offer in-person special education teaching this summer. “I just issued an Executive Order allowing necessary in-person special education instruction this summer. Any school district providing these services must follow all state and federal guidance,” the governor said in a statement....

A New Jersey man can remain king of his seven-story hill of trash for now —  thanks to the coronavirus. A man who has built an illegal dump on his Sussex County property won’t be thrown in jail for the eyesore until after the coronavirus pandemic subsides, according to a Superior Court judge’s ruling. Joseph...