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Advocacy groups plan to sue the city for First Amendment violations if Mayor Bill de Blasio does not immediately lift his controversial 8 p.m. curfew. The mayor instated the curfew on Monday in hopes of quelling violence and looting during ten days of largely peaceful anti-police brutality protests. “The week-long, city-wide curfew unconstitutionally restricts individuals’...

Rep. Max Rose is catching flak for participating in a march on Staten Island Friday protesting police brutality following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. The peaceful march made its way to the 122 Police Precinct on Hylan Blvd. in New Dorp. The Democratic congressman marched through the conservative...

The bicycle courier whose after-curfew arrest Thursday night wound up in a viral video was in fact making deliveries — despite NYPD claims to the contrary, reps for the company where he worked told The Post. After facing backlash for arresting the courier — who as an essential worker is exempt from the 8 p.m....

New York City is set for its reopening Monday — but there’ll be nothing grand about it. A number of coronavirus-weary retailers — including Sephora, Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman — won’t be opening up, even though in-store pickup or drop-off is OK. “Phase 1 is only going to have a minor impact on...

The NYPD has suspended two officers who were caught on bystander video shoving and pepper-spraying protesters at separate George Floyd demonstrations over the past week. Both videos had gone viral as examples of apparently unprovoked violence against peaceful protesters; the two officers, who were not identified by NYPD officials, have been suspended without pay. In...

Anti-police brutality protesters in New York City paid their respects on Friday to Breonna Taylor, a black EMT who was fatally shot by cops in her home in Kentucky home — grieving her at memorials in Brooklyn and Manhattan on what would have been her 27th birthday. Taylor, 26, had been sleeping with her boyfriend...

Surfers gathered in the Hamptons Friday for a totally rad, on-the-water memorial for George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose police custody death has galvanized protests around the country. While hundreds marched at Ditch Plains Beach in ritzy Sag Harbor, more than 100 local surfers gathered in Montauk to remember Floyd by joining in a “National...

Give this man a diplomatic job at the UN. A savvy Brooklyn dad starred as a one-man negotiating team between hundreds of fellow protesters and a row of dozens of NYPD officers in Park Slope on Friday night — singlehandedly ending a tense, post-curfew standoff. “They kept their men in check,” Randy Williams, 38, said...

Officials are "experimenting" with technology that "assists in filtering in the air in real time," an MTA official with knowledge of the effort said.

Criminal charges will not be brought in the case of a transgender inmate who died in her Rikers Island cell last year, the city’s Department of Investigation said Friday. Layleen Polanco, 27, was found dead at Rikers’ Rose M. Singer Center on June 7, 2019, of complications of epilepsy. She was being housed in solitary confinement...