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This is what The Bronx looked like just hours after violent rioters came to the area and looted small businesses, turning the area into a graffiti-covered, glass-strewn war zone. The video, captured Tuesday morning near Burnside Avenue and Grand Concourse, shows the devastating aftermath of the chaos and depicts a destroyed check-cashing business, two ransacked...

More than 400 people were awaiting arraignment in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday afternoon for allegedly looting stores Monday night — and most will likely be cut loose without bail because of the state law passed earlier this year, a court spokesperson said. By 4 p.m., a majority of the 400 people arrested were awaiting arraignment...

NYPD cops have been ignoring an official directive and abandoning their coronavirus face masks amid the violent protests over George Floyd’s killing — even though a top official took on the city’s health commissioner to get the protective gear. Dramatic images from recent street clashes show cops with surgical masks pulled beneath their chins or...

Rudy Giuliani said Mayor Bill de Blasio should resign or be removed from office for failing to stop the violence and looting that has engulfed New York City during protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of cops in Minneapolis. “Gov. Cuomo should remove Mayor diBlasio (sic). He is preventing the NYPD...

All regular days off for NYPD cops are canceled, “effective immediately,” according to a memo obtained by the Post Tuesday. The “finest message” dated June 2 went out to all 36,000 members of the department, which has been struggling to keep troublemakers at protests in check and stop nighttime looting. “Effective immediately, all full duty...

For-hire car services like Uber and Lyft will be banned for four and a half hours Tuesday night as part of the city’s attempt to crack down on days of civil unrest, The Post has learned. The city-ordered ban will be begin at 8 p.m. — the same time as the city-wide curfew — and...

"The governor has, on the ready, the National Guard. Now it's a question of, are we going to deploy them?" said Mark Jaffe, president and CEO of the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce. "Can NYPD get this looting under control in the city?"

A Queens man is under fire after he was caught on video ripping down a Black Lives Matter sign, calling his neighborhood a “white town” and using racial and homophobic slurs. The man, identified as Anthony Abicca by nearly two dozen Twitter users, many of whom went to school with him and shared yearbook photos...

City officials have pulled public trash cans out of neighborhoods hit by unrest or that they suspect will be targeted by looters as the Big Apple faces its sixth day of unrest following the tragic killing of George Floyd. That’s nearly nine percent of the 23,000 Department of Sanitation trash cans that dot street corners...

State University of New York Chancellor Kristina Johnson is stepping down after just three years at the helm to take the top job at Ohio State University, sources told The Post Tuesday. Her resignation as the $560,000 head of the sprawling 64-college system is expected to be made official on Wednesday, sources said. Robert Megna,...