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A tattooed man with his shirt halfway on threw a rock through the front window of a Bronx hardware store before climbing in and swiping cookware, new video released by the NYPD shows. The bizarre crime happened around 10 p.m. on June 6 at Pelham Bay Discount and Hardware on Westchester Avenue when the man...

New York is making “really great progress’’ in its fight against the coronavirus, registering the lowest number of daily deaths since the pandemic started — but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “Those numbers can change in a week … and once they change, you can’t change them...

Three people were injured, one of them seriously, when a deer rammed into a Black Lives Matter march in New Jersey, according to police. The harrowing incident happened in New Brunswick around 5 p.m. Friday, when hundreds of protesters marched along County Route 533 as part of the town’s “March for Justice” in the wake...

A Queens “Karen’’ deliberately coughed on a woman in a bagel shop after being called out for not having a mask on, according to video and critics. “You can’t say it to my face, you p—?!’’ the unmasked woman raged at the female patron who had just complained to a worker at the New York...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said some youth sports such as baseball could start up again in certain New York regions as soon as early next month. He said “low-risk” athletics — baseball, softball, gymnastics, field hockey, cross country and crew — could resume starting July 6 in areas that are in Phase Three of...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday fired back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s threat to shut down Manhattan again if the city didn’t enforce social-distancing better — saying through a rep that “imprisoning people” isn’t the answer. “We must balance safety with people’s need to reopen their businesses,” a City Hall spokeswoman said in an e-mail....

Three people were wounded in a shooting — one critically — after a dispute broke out in the Bronx early Sunday, police said. A 26-year-old man was shot once in the back around 2:30 a.m. in front of 1152 Ogden Avenue in Highbridge, cops said. He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center and was not...

Police officers tased and arrested a man who was threatening them with a knife in Midtown in the early hours of Saturday, sources told The Post. Sammie Williams, 29, of the Bronx, allegedly approached three cops in an unmarked police car near 32nd Street and Park Avenue at around 1:30 a.m., the sources said. When...

An e-bike rider is clinging to life after he crashed into a pedestrian in Corona, Queens Saturday night, police said. The two crossed paths near the intersection of Junction Boulevard and 41st Avenue around 10 p.m., according to police. It was not clear which direction each was traveling and who had the right of way. The...

A woman was left in critical condition and four others were injured after drivers of two SUVs slammed into each other on Staten Island’s south shore Saturday afternoon, police and fire officials said. The vehicles collided near the intersection of Luten Avenue and Hylan Boulevard in Huguenot. The woman, 28, was transported to Staten Island...