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Health officials will flood 10 coronavirus hot spots with more testing and supplies ahead of New York City’s planned June 8 reopening. Gov. Cuomo said Saturday that some of the 10 neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx had a 50 percent or higher infection rate for the deadly bug. Overall, the number of New...

One of Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza's nine $209,000-a-year executive superintendents is jumping ship, The Post has learned.

Protests of the George Floyd killing sprung up in Newark, NJ as thousands vented their rage after the unarmed black man died while in police custody in Minneapolis this week. While Floyd’s death has sparked violence and riots in Atlanta, Oakland, Detroit, Louisville and Brooklyn, the New Jersey protests were peaceful. The Newark protest, organized...

A shooting early Saturday in Brooklyn left a man dead and another with a bullet wound to his abdomen, police said. The unidentified man was pronounced dead at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. The second victim, a 36-year-old man, was taken to The Brooklyn Hospital Center in stable condition. Police were called to the Ingersoll Houses...

Shanell Brunson had to jump through hoops to get remote-learning devices for her kids. On March 16, the day after Mayor de Blasio announced buildings would close and classes go online, Brunson went to PS 119, which her son Navon, 9, and daughter Nariah, 5, attend, to pick up laptops. The school called the night...

It’s an ATM to die for. A conveyor belt of cash-strapped New Yorkers — most of them unemployed and some from as far as Queens — queue up every day at an ATM on East 22nd Street. They wait more than two hours on a block-long line, where there is little social distancing and plenty...

An NYPD supervisor lost a tooth — possibly from a thrown brick — during violent protests in Brooklyn Friday night, according to police sources. Lt. Robert Corbett, who works in the legal department of the NYPD, is seen with a bloodied mouth and blood-stained shirt in photos taken sometime after the altercation. The images were...

An NYPD officer is reportedly under investigation after a video surfaced on Twitter showing a cop hurling a smaller, female protester to the ground. The video, first posted by Newsweek senior reporter Jason Lemon around 8:30 p.m. Friday, shows a uniformed cop using two hands to toss the woman to the pavement. She flies like...

A Molotov cocktail was hurled through the window of an empty NYPD vehicle in Clinton Hill on Saturday morning, punctuating a night of violent George Floyd protests in Brooklyn, police sources said. The makeshift explosive was thrown from a moving car around 1:20 a.m. and struck a police car parked outside of the 88th Precinct....

Anti-cop rage over the police-custody death of George Floyd boiled over in Brooklyn on Friday night — with an NYPD van being set on fire in Fort Greene Park and hundreds of protesters trying to surround the 88th precinct in Clinton Hill  before being rebuffed by a massive police mobilization. In all, some 200 people...