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This granny’s got gumption. A feisty 74-year-old great-grandmother helped cops bust accused looter and cop-beater Kevin Bullock after he tried to climb through her window in Brownsville as police chased him on June 1. And then scolded a city judge for freeing him without the bail. Bullock had allegedly just bashed a cop in the...

Brooklyn will get a giant Black Lives Matter mural similar to the one painted in yellow in downtown Washington, DC. Artists, elected officials and others joined in painting the words along Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant Saturday. State Attorney General Letitia James tweeted a photo of herself with a paint roller in hand saying “Proud to...

Don't expect to see Dave Chappelle ferrying to Staten Island any time soon.

They’ve gone from booze to boos in the East Village. Brazen outdoor drinking continued for a second night in the hotspot neighborhood Saturday, with boozers booing police who asked nicely that the mostly unmasked and non-socially distanced crowds go on home. The drinking violated open container laws in the neighborhood for the second straight night....

Gov. Cuomo told protesters demanding racial justice “you won” and pressed the state’s police departments to formulate a plan for “systemic reform” by April 1 or lose state money. “If you don’t do it, local government, you won’t get any state funding. Period,” Cuomo said Saturday at his daily briefing. “You have to pass a...

An anguished New Jersey couple who struggled for years to start a family, losing 19 embryos, blame a bungling Manhattan fertility clinic, according to a lawsuit. Christopher Mooney, who works in real estate finance, and his wife Nicole underwent dozens of procedures trying to get pregnant, some leaving Nicole so ill she was “walking into...

An East Village man accused of hosting sex parties last year has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend, cops said. Avraham Adler, 33, was taken into custody Friday after a 26-year-old woman reported she had been “punched in the face” and “choked by her boyfriend,” an NYPD spokesman said. The woman reported bruising and pain,...

Councilman Robert Holden is demanding Mayor de Blasio remove schools Chancellor Richard Carranza amid the school chief’s war of words with parents of special-education children. Holden, a Queens lawmaker and college professor who has repeatedly clashed with Carranza, wrote to Hizzoner Friday blasting a recent tweet by the chancellor that “diminished and mocked the concerns...

Even while delivering the good news that New York had hit the lowest number of daily deaths since the coronavirus outbreak began in March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo chastised cops who aren’t wearing face masks. “It is the law. And the law is the law for the police, right?” Cuomo told reporters Saturday. “So wear a...

The party is over for a Secaucus employee of Party City after she was caught in a racist rant online. The balloon and costume supplier terminated Jacqueline Michele DeLuca after Twitter user @IzzyNice posted a sick ranting video DeLuca had recorded after a car cut her off at a light. DeLuca uses multiple offensive terms...