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A Long Island cop was caught on video appearing to deliberately block a protester — prompting other officers to throw the man to the pavement and arrest him. The now-viral clip first shows the Nassau County cop walking alongside the protester in East Meadow on Saturday, then moving in front of the man and stopping...

Richard Diaz, 31, was riding along the lower level of the highway on his 2014 Yamaha motorcycle when he suddenly lost control near 58th Street.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took a sick day Monday — canceling his entire schedule — but he doesn’t “appear” to have the coronavirus, his press secretary said. “He woke up feeling sick so he’s taking the day to work from home,” the mayor’s press secretary Freddi Goldstein told The Post. “Based on his symptoms it...

The MTA’s multimillion-dollar effort to shrink the homeless population in the city’s subways has been an expensive bust, the agency’s watchdog says in a damning new report. Complaints about vagrants in the system surged after the agency last year revamped its $5 million annual effort to get the unsheltered out of the subways and into shelters...

A Bronx bodega ravaged by looters during the George Floyd protests received a $5,000 donation on Sunday to help get back in business. “When I arrived here and looked at what they’d done, I just wanted to throw the towel in,” said Daniel Melo through a translator, as the Dominican immigrant recalled the heartbreak after...

Good luck getting these guys to wear masks — they’re barely wearing clothes! Sunbathers flocked to Central Park’s Sheep Meadow to catch some rays on a gorgeous Sunday, but many opted not to cover their faces — or much else, for that matter — despite the ongoing pandemic. Several among the thongs — er, throngs —...

Thousands of protesters — all dressed in white — gathered in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon to rally in support of the black transgender population. An enormous sea of people packed outside the Brooklyn Museum for the massive demonstration, according to footage posted to social media by @JibreelJalloh. “Black trans power matters … And we’re taking...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to shut down Manhattan and the Hamptons again if residents don’t adhere to the state’s social distancing rules. “We’re not going to go back to that dark place because local governments didn’t do their job” and people don’t take the proper precautions amid the coronavirus, Cuomo said. He said...

He “did not die in vain” — or at all for that matter. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday erroneously listed police-brutality victim Abner Louima among those killed by cops over the years. “Let’s show that Mr. [George] Floyd did not die in vain,” said Cuomo in an Albany press briefing, detailing steps the state is...

Some 10 percent of those cut free from Rikers Island due to coronavirus concerns since March have since been arrested — some multiple times, The Post has learned. Out of the roughly 2,500 inmates let go from the city’s largest jail, 250 have used the freedom to allegedly commit nearly 450 new crimes, NYPD data...