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Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday welcomed peaceful mass protests in the Big Apple over the police-involved death of George Floyd — even as he has staunchly barred other demonstrations, religious gatherings and fined small businesses $1,000 for reopening. “I want to just say anyone who wants to protest, we’re going to protect your right...

A plain-clothes NYPD cop purposely coughed on a man in The Bronx amid the coronavirus pandemic, a shocking new video shows.

The Big Apple’s giant new program to trace and contain coronavirus infections has been marred by a chaotic hiring process, leaving applicants who thought they were hired twisting in the wind and unsure of their future, The Post has learned. “It’s just kind of an endless process,” said one applicant, whose job description changed without...

The family of the Long Island public defender found strangled to death at Club Med on Turks and Caicos two years ago has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit, according to a new report. The son and husband of Marie Kuhnla, 61, of Wantagh, filed the lawsuit after hiring private investigator Eddie Dowd —...

Distraught public housing residents plan to sue the New York City Housing Authority after 1241 tenants died of COVID-19 and thousands more were sickened because the buildings were not properly sanitized, their lawyer said Friday. “These are the people who need to be protected the most and when you talk about the government’s function to...

“Enough is enough,” Cuomo said during his daily coronavirus press briefing in New Rochelle, explaining that the Monday death of Floyd -- which has sparked national outrage -- “is not an isolated incident.”

MTA Chairman Pat Foye on Friday blasted a new CDC guidance that businesses encourage employees to avoid mass transit. “The CDC’s latest guidance marks yet another confounding recommendation from the nation’s top health authority,” Foye said in a statement. “Encouraging people, especially those without cars and in congested areas like New York, not to take...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has to respond by early June to a federal lawsuit by a Long Island strip club that has sought to reopen amid the coronavirus outbreak, a judge ruled Friday. The owner of Blush Gentleman’s Club in Suffolk County has sought a temporary restraining order from Cuomo’s executive orders that forced his...

Former New York City chief medical examiner Michael Baden will conduct an independent autopsy on George Floyd following his death after being pinned by a Minneapolis police officer. Dr. Michael Baden, who previously conducted an independent autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, will do the examination after the family takes Floyd’s body back from the state, their...

A 55-year-old felon has used loose bail laws to terrorize Big Apple residents with a three borough crime-spree in which he was arrested 19 times and repeatedly released, The Post has learned. Frank Pagan, who is a registered sex offender, has since early April been busted in Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island for everything...