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Police have nabbed a suspect they say brutally attacked a 64-year-old woman in East Harlem on Monday. Frankie Harris, 38, of Bushwick, has been charged with attempted murder, rape and sexual abuse in connection to the assault that left the victim in a vegetative state. Shocking surveillance camera video released by police shows the assault...

A school safety agent who had dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the children of Brooklyn is the latest member of the NYPD “family” to die in the coronavirus outbreak. Doris Kirkland, a safety agent at the Brooklyn High School of the Arts, died Friday night from coronavirus complications, Commissioner Dermot Shea...

Eighty-four people died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, down from 109 the previous day -- and the lowest total since March 24.

Greedy retailers attempting to profit off the pandemic by overcharging customers for hot coronavirus commodities have racked up a hefty bill with the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the agency said. From March 5 through Wednesday, inspectors issued 7,600 price-gouging violations in stores from Manhattan to Queens selling goods like cleaning spray, cold...

While Chancellor Richard Carranza plans to cut hundreds of millions from NYC classrooms, his little-known yoga czar — the school system’s first “Director of Mindfulness” — makes nearly $200,000 a year while organizing retreats for educrats in the Berkshires. Barnaby Spring, the Department of Education’s chief yogi, is trying to expand yoga and meditation for...

Hints of summer are on the horizon.

Fotis Dulos, the Connecticut luxury home developer who was accused of killing his wife, planned his own suicide in meticulous detail, according to a police report obtained by The Hartford Courant. On Jan. 28, Dulos stuffed the openings in his garage door with Styrofoam and used duct tape to fasten a vacuum hose to the...

Joana Silva, 39, co-owns La Bicyclette Bakery in Williamsburg and lives in StuyTown, in Manhattan, with her partner and 3-month-old daughter. In typical New York fashion, we all live one on top of the other — but we don’t talk to our neighbors. I’m part of a Stuyvesant Moms Facebook group. You could just tell...

NYC schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is resuming implicit-bias training remotely for all Department of Education employees, saying for the first time the controversial sessions are needed because of bias against Asian-Americans. The anti-bias workshops are controversial. Administrators have been lectured on “white supremacy culture,” and teachers asked to examine their “whiteness.” Those who objected were...

"I think it would’ve been hard to stay sober without the lockdown. This forced reset is a really good thing for me," says New Yorker Jenna McPhail.