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The nearly minute-long clip, filmed by a chuckling onlooker from across the tracks, appears to show a man and woman in the throws of passion on the platform of the Flushing Avenue station in Brooklyn.

The city checked over 150 homeless men into an upscale Brooklyn hotel and apartment tower to ride out the coronavirus potentially delivering the pandemic to the doorstep of the building’s residential units, fearful tenants told The Post. “There were people lined up outside the hotel and they weren’t wearing masks and gloves. They weren’t social-distancing...

The owner of a New Jersey gym that continues to defy the state’s coronavirus lockdown order came clean Wednesday about a fatal drunk driving crash he pleaded guilty to 13 years ago. Ian Smith, co-owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, said in an Instagram mea culpa that “there is justifiably a great deal of hatred...

President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and will serve the remainder of his time in home confinement, reports said Wednesday. Cohen will be released from Otisville Prison in upstate New York, where he is serving time for lying to Congress and campaign-finance violations,...

A park grows in Brooklyn! The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission signed off this week on plans to link the Brooklyn Bridge’s two waterfront parks together with a new plaza and green space that would sit under the iconic span. It’s the final piece of a decade-plus long push to revitalize the once-industrial waterfront of Gotham’s...

The subway is so unpopular amid the coronavirus pandemic that more New Yorkers are opting for buses than the cramped subterranean system, the MTA revealed Wednesday. Both forms of transit have seen recent upticks in commuters after levels plummeted in recent months, Interim Transit President Sarah Feinberg told MTA board members. But while subway ridership...

A heartless Long Island mom and her boyfriend allegedly abandoned her terrified 6-year-old daughter on a crowded Queens street, tossed garbage bags with the girl’s clothes out the window and drove off, prosecutors said Wednesday. Patrice Chambers, 29, and Mark Pamphile, 28, are accused of forcing the child from her mom’s Nissan Altima at the...

The Police Benevolent Association said Diaz is its favored choice in a crowded field of 10 Democratic candidates running in the 15th congressional district to replace veteran Rep. Jose Serrano, who is retiring.

Two people were killed and another person was injured in a police-involved shooting inside a Harlem apartment building Wednesday night, sources and officials said. The chaos erupted about 6:50 p.m. inside a building on Saint Nicholas Terrace near West 127th Street when 44-year-old Ubaldo Gomez, an MTA worker, fatally shot and stabbed his sister-in-law and...

A woman who allegedly punched an NYPD cop was busted for identity theft in New Jersey. Chelsea Colson, of New York, was nabbed on Monday after she tried to flee a Citibank branch in Paramus with $3,500 from the bank account of a Brooklyn resident, which she allegedly acquired using stolen identification, reported the Daily...