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Curtis Sliwa suffered a fractured jaw as he and his Guardian Angels confronted hammer-wielding looters in Manhattan earlier this week. The 66-year-old founder of the civilian crime-fighting crew and his fellow red berets rushed to Footlocker in Soho Tuesday night after getting word that looters were running amok. The Angels got the young men to...

Residents in Inwood made peace with each other following a viral video showing a group of Dominicans chasing away black men they apparently suspected were in the neighborhood to loot. “We squashed the beef,” a man says in a video posted Wednesday, as he’s surrounded by a group of young black men. “It was a...

The MTA is demanding the de Blasio administration almost double the length of the city’s bus lanes by adding another 60 miles as part of its coronavirus reopening strategy. “A robust bus system will be crucial as workers look to return to their offices. It will also help alleviate crowding on the streets and underground,”...

New York City’s district attorneys must get tough with looters capitalizing on the George Floyd protests — charging them strongly enough to keep them from walking free without bail to strike again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. “The DA should charge these looters,” Cuomo told reporters in an Albany briefing. “They should be held and...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday said that city restaurants will be able to create an influx of seating on the sidewalks and in open streets during Phase 2 of the Big Apple’s reopening from its coronavirus-induced shutdown when outdoor dining only will be allowed. “We will provide a massive expansion of curbside seating, a...

The man caught on camera chasing down black lives matter demonstrators with a Wolverine-type claw in Queens has been arrested and charged, the NYPD said Thursday.  Frank Cavalluzzi, 54, was slapped with six counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree, seven counts of menacing with a weapon in the second degree and seven counts...

A Long Island teacher is fighting racial injustice — one page at a time. Tara Drouin, 47, wrote a heartfelt book and accompanying song about diversity that she’s shared with elementary school students around New York — a lesson she told The Post is now more critical than ever as the country reels over the...

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday that “enough is enough” when it comes to protesters demonstrating against police brutality past the citywide 8 p.m. curfew. “In the context of crisis, in the context of curfew, there comes a point where enough is enough,” de Blasio said during his daily City Hall press briefing. For...

This is the knife a man allegedly used to stab a police officer in the neck in Brooklyn on Wednesday night – a confrontation that ended with two cops and the suspect being shot. The man approached the officer on Church Street near Flatbush Avenue at about 11:45 p.m. and stabbed him in the neck,...

Cops shot a knife-wielding man early Thursday in the East Village, officials said. The officers were nearby when a man pulled a knife during an argument with another person at East 10th Street and Third Avenue at 6:50 a.m., police said. The cops told him to drop the knife — but he refused, prompting them...