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A 64-year-old woman was left in a vegetative state after being viciously attacked in East Harlem by a man who exposed himself before taking off on a bicycle, police said Wednesday. The terrifying ordeal happened as the woman was walking on E. 111th Street near 2nd Avenue in just before 11:30 p.m. Monday when the...

Online services held by a Manhattan synagogue last week were marred by a barrage of hate-filled messages, including “Kill the Jews” in a practice that’s come to be known as “bombing,” police said Wednesday. The Central Synagogue on Lexington Avenue was holding services on Facebook Live around 5:45 p.m. Friday when an unknown poster began...

An elderly man was killed when a fire ravaged his Queens home early Wednesday, according to authorities. Paul Agopian, 77, was found unconscious and unresponsive in the home on 55th Avenue near 90th Street in Elmhurst, where the blaze broke out just after 5 a.m., cops said. Agopian may have been smoking in bed when...

The city is ramping up coronavirus testing and staffing at Big Apple nursing homes as part of a new plan to fight the deadly bug in hard-hit elderly communities, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. Starting next week, the city will offer free, on-site diagnostic coronavirus tests to all 169 nursing homes across the five...

A New Jersey creep convicted of stalking four women on social media and stealing one victim’s bra will spend one year in jail, prosecutors said.

A Brooklyn man donned a devilish Halloween mask before infiltrating a senior center and shooting a 62-year-old dead in his bed, police sources said Wednesday. Gregory Spears, 39, wore a horned-devil mask as he knocked on the door to alleged victim Angel Medina’s 14th-floor apartment in the Langston Hughes Senior Center in Brownsville around 2:45...

First Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed nursing homes for a widely criticized directive from his Health Department barring the facilities from turning away coronavirus-positive people — now he’s pawning it off on the White House. Critics should “ask President Trump” about it, the governor said Wednesday, arguing that the federal government actually cooked up the mandate...

Some mischievous city kids are manipulating and posting clips of their teachers’ remote learning lessons on social media, leaving some educators wary of video classes, several sources told The Post. “There are a lot of us who aren’t comfortable with it,” a Bronx middle school teacher said. “You never know where your face is going...

Brown, 33, is a full-time RN at the Brownsville hospital.  But early on in the crisis, his mom caught the bug and so did a few of his coworkers and friends, so he used his time off to care for them like they were his own patients.

Now he understands her line in the sand. Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke Wednesday to a Nassau County official who wants to ban New York City residents from visiting beaches in her county — a policy he has criticized — and said he now respects the move. A day after demanding that New Yorkers be...